MicroHoo: Some Web 2.0 Advice!

Last night, BoomTown loaded the kids into the car–you try finding a sitter on a Tuesday night!–and went early to a pair of dot-com parties being thrown at some trendy spots in San Francisco related to the Web 2.0 Expo taking place this week. Our quest was to find out what some savvy Web 2.0 [...]

Marc Canter Speaks Out and Loud About OpenSocial! (Were You Surprised?)

On the day that Google announced its roping of MySpace and Bebo into its not-Facebook coalition of companies that were united behind its OpenSocial play to make social-networking programming open and ubiquitous, I had a long-planned lunch date with colorful Web entrepreneur Marc Canter. How perfect! Canter has been a nettlesome presence of late on [...]

Canter the Happy Buddha

Ah, I knew Marc Canter would eventually take my joke about Tasering him into a stupor the right way! In his response last week to my response to his original post about how I did not want him to bellow out questions at a party in Silicon Valley recently, Canter (pictured here) seemed to like [...]

Memo to Canter: I Keed (Sort Of)

In a you-hurt-my-feelings post on his blog earlier this week, entrepreneur Marc Canter (pictured here) turned my one little quip to his bellowing question at the recent iLike party into a huge deal about why he was not invited to the D: All Things Digital conference that I co-produce with Walt Mossberg. At the party, [...]