Twitter and Summize - thoughts from a plane seat

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Finally I get to talk about it.
Congratulations both to my old friends at Summize and my new friends at Twitter for a great deal. It makes sense both from a mile away and close [...]

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Clark Lake Michigan

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Happy 4th!

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I am here.
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This is where I am. Relaxing. A thought is running through my head…
Creating something of value can be immediate and simple, given the right mix of quality resources. Recent experiences make that perfectly clear.
All of the tools exist to make great things - increasingly so - and it’s time to [...]

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I can’t believe how time flies. I am a lucky guy.

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The 60’s were a glorious time!

Worth a read if you have a minute. I miss the 60’s. Actually, I don’t remember the 60’s… but I still miss them.

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Good week and good progress from two projects that are near and dear to my heart.
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1) Summize released a location feature that isolates comments and conversations to a geographic area. Great for getting a sense of events (tech meetup NY vs tech meetup SF) and happenings (see what people IN CHINA are saying [...]

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This week we released the beta version of the open API for our new Calais Web service, and debuted our new developer community at www.OpenCalais.com.  
The Calais Web service is a free metatagging service that enables both publishers and content consumers – search engines, news portals, RSS Readers, etc. – to automatically metatag the people, places facts [...]

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“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.” —  André Gide

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I originally sent this post simply as an email to friends and former colleagues. I was encouraged to post it for posterity, so here it is. 
John McKinley recently posted on his blog about AOL Search - it’s a positive view of the progress made over the last several years, and the fact that it largely went unnoticed in the market. 
It [...]

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I tend to reject buzzwords, and semantic web is a term that’s as buzz-y as they come. The best ideas end up buzz-ified, though… I’ll do my dissertation on the Phases of the Web here soon, providing a different view on Web 2.0, etc. But today I am thinking about data, content… how to unlock [...]

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