Last weekend I made the trek up to San Francisco to spend 3 days in Golden Gate Park enjoying some great (and occasionally not enjoying not-so-great) music. Thievery Corporation, Blind Pilot, Bat for Lashes, M.I.A., Conor Oberst, and Band of Horses were.
Topics: happenings, music, outside lands, personal, san francisco, sf

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I recently ventured out into the ocean on a Carnival Cruise, and it certainly was quite the trip.  We had our fair share of zany cruise-goers and apparently we booked on the same weekend as every lame bachelor party.  We also witnessed some silly...
Topics: carnival, cruise, ensenada, mexico, personal

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I began at MySpace almost a year ago today as a product manager on the Platform team. While MySpace had launched the Data Availability project just before I joined, I was there to help formulate our plan and define its evolution. To me, the key was to..
Topics: farewell, goodbyes, myspace, oauth, openid, opensocial, personal, portable contacts, webware

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While the film industry has been busy ruining much that I love with remakes of “Cowboy Bebop”, “Akira”, “Ghost in the Shell”, and “Ninja Scroll”, this new “Astroboy Film” actually looks good!
Topics: anime, video

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Last week I was invited to participate on a panel at the most recent DEMO Conference entitled “Social Data Sharing Will Change Lives and Business”.  I had the opportunity to show off some new functionality for the MySpaceID platform that...
Topics: DEMO, oauth, openid, webware

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