Month June 2006

Gnomedex. New sites.

Melodeo. “Podcast listening experience” with social networks. Assemble playlists, sync them with your cell. Listen to a podcast at home, stop in the middle, then pick up in the same spot on your cell. Blue Dot. The intersection of social…

Gnomedex. Marc Cantor

Cantor’s new project, just launched, is the PeopleAggregator. It’s social networking that is open source, not locked in. You want to move your data elsewhere, fine. You want to import from other social networking sites, do it. I read somewhere…

Gnomedex: Dave Dederer

Dave’s band, The Presidents of the United Sates of America, has had commercial success, and has also sold a ton of copies on iTunes. With the Net, small unknown bands have a real chance to get noticed without going through…

Gnomedex: Sen. John Edwards keynote

Who knew Marc Cantor, founder of Macromedia, was a “third generation red diaper baby?” That’s how he described himself in a question to Edwards, who asked what that meant. Cantor said, “my grandfather was a Communist, my father is a…

Gnomedex. CivicEvolution.org

How do we restore common sense to government? We restore the influence of common citizens CivicEvolution is a free, non-partisan online public service for grassroots deliberation and collaboration. We provide the tools and resources groups need to create and manage…