First Microsoft announced support for Microformats and now Yahoo! is getting on board. If we could only get Google to join in! Officially Yahoo is supporting hReview, hCalendar and hCard.
Hopefully they will adopt the hResume format!
Pick a nickname, select IRC as the server protocol and select irc.freenode.net as the chat server (no proxy, port 6667). Now you are ready to join the Spur chatroom just type: #spur and you are in.
Let me first explain that I am a huge fan of Flickr (I have over 7,000 photos on the service), but since I heard Thomas Hawk is joining Zooomr I have decided to give it a try. Brian was visiting Mike Arrington when Kristopher Tate was showing off his new photo site called Zooomr. Brian was knocked out! Mike wrote about it in a post titled, “Flickr on Steroids.“ But I was unconvinced, I never bothered to set up an account because Flickr isn’t broken for me – it is great!
That all changed when I saw Brian’s post that Thomas Hawk (one of my favorite photographers on Flickr) is joining the Zooomer team. Holy Bat-pictures! Why is he joining Zooomr? Is Zooomr important? Isn’t it just a Flickr clone? Hm… I better find out more. Usually, once I settle on a platform there is a huge amount of inertia keeping as a user. Unless something is broken or there is a huge advantage to switching I will stick it out. I still haven’t set up a Zooomr account, but my interest has been piqued by Thomas Hawk’s action.
I am sure I am not alone in my surprise. Isn’t it interesting how a single, influential person like Thomas Hawk can make a business relevant?
Thomas Hawk, flickrmaven to the max, is going to work for Zooomr. I got a demo of Zooomr from 17 year old phenom Kris earlier this year. I’m at the beach, so I don’t have time to fully grok Hawk’s move, but you check it out and explain it to me when I come in from the sun.
Postscript: I also see that my pals Chris & Tara are hating on a TechCrunch post, which also has some back & forth from the genius Stewart B. as well. Folks, in the words of the man, Can’t we all just get along? It’s photosharing, not the Gaza Strip.
Alex did a great job of talking about PodServe and all the Big in Japan apps today at the Under the Radar event held at the Microsoft HQ in Silicon Valley. We got some kind words from Mssrs. Arrington & Clavier and had lots of good conversations with companies interested in hearing more after the presentation.
The best feedback so far is that PodServe was a ‘Best in Show’ winner after all the audience votes were tallied tonight. Not only did we ‘win’ the love of the crowd at our panel on podcasting, but PodServe was one of the top vote getters among all the apps demo’d today. Said one respondent: “I’d buy that.” Now that’s what we like to hear. Thanks, Debbie Landa and all IBD Network team for inviting us out to present. We also did an interview with Irina Slutsky, which I’ll link to once posted.
Rock on, Big in Japan team.
Very cool of Debbie Landa to invite us to show off PodServe at the Under the Radar event in Mountain View tomorrow. Alexander & I will be talking about how we ended up working on all the Big in Japan apps to support our work here at Weblogs Work, how PodServe has become popular with corporate clients who want customizable podcast tools for internal communications and other uses, and how PodServe’s telephony integration makes it super simple for anyone to create and publish new audio. Mike Arrington, Jeff Clavier and Zander Lurie will be giving us some input, so we’ll report back about what they have to say.
Mike Arrington has the lowdown on today’s launch of the public beta of Flock, the much talked about social browser. He has also posted a podcast with Flock’s founders. It’s been sometime since we played with Flock, but nice guy says that they have come a really long way. Worth checking out.  Let us know your thoughts.
If you’re in the Bay Area, come say hello tonight at the blogger dinner at the Hotel Utah. It’s in honor of Adriana & Jackie, two spitfires from the U.K. who are currently rabble rousing around San Francisco.
TechCrunch turns one today. One year from Mike researching new companies as he & Keith worked on Edgeio to a budding TechCrunch empire. Anyone who says 65,000 tech early adopters don’t matter is smoking something. Many companies would die for a TechCrunch post to help them introduce a new service. He’s added a mobile-focused site, a podcast and a French edition. Plus, the parties are pretty kicking. (More parties coming up in July & September. But not at the house!)
Rock on, Mike. Thanks for a year’s worth of rounding up what’s new and noteworthy on the Web.
Update: here’s Mike’s post. And I like Jeff Clavier’s post as well.
As originally reported by Tom Foremski and Andy Plesser (and dittoed by Chris Pirillo) Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft to join John Furrier’s PodTech. I just heard Mike Arrington confirm it with Robert, and Robert and is writing a post on it right now. Robert just interviewed me today (as I interviewed him) @ vloggercon. Robert, post that video before you leave. As he would say, heh. Rock on, man.
Whenever I give speeches about social media, I always pimp Naked Conversations as the most thorough look at what companies are doing vis-a-vis blogging, and, more importantly, I always single out Microsoft’s embrace of blogging (and lack of heavy-handed oversight) as key to their getting some second chances with developers and media. Robert has done really great work as an ambassador for Microsoft and as an ambassador for corporate use of social media. I look forward to what he might do @ PodTech.
Update: Here’s Robert’s post.
More update: Here is a podcast with Robert on PodTech, talking about the move.
