http://salimismail.com Slim's pickins about the internet, life in general et al.... Sat, 08 May 2010 21:18:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_126" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Rohit's Social Graph"][/caption] We're coming up to the next Internet Identity Workshop (May 17-19) and with all the hubbub about the dilution in Facebook's privacy policy (see Cory's excellent post about it here), I had to add my 2cents to the fray.  Note that my blog posts ... http://salimismail.com/?p=124 NASA Ames Exploration Center Originally uploaded by Laughing Squid Over the last 2-3 months, a lot of people have been watching my tweets and listened to my various conversations wondering what exactly I'm up to. I haven't been able to say much, but can now finally talk about it. Biting ... http://salimismail.com/?p=120 Blackberry Curve vs. G1 Android As part of a new project, our team was donated some G1 Android phones to play with. Already being a T-Mobile customer, it was a no-brainer to play with it for a couple of days and I got to put the phone through its paces. ... http://salimismail.com/?p=114 Wow - when it rains it pours. After eight years of Bush drought we finally get a big relief - first Obama runs away with the election and now I just heard that he's appointed Sonal Shah to his inner circle. I first met Sonal in 2003 at the awards gala ... http://salimismail.com/?p=103 It's Obama - by a landslide... Originally uploaded by Nicki's Knickers™ Readers of this blog (all three of them) will know that I don't often comment on politics. And though my twitter feed has leaned towards the democrats, I'm more of a libertarian. Given the soaring heights of this ... http://salimismail.com/?p=104 On my second last trip to Ireland, Pat Phelan, one of my favorite bloggers, bounced into the speaker's dinner, handed me a SIM card and bounced right out again. Pat runs MaxRoam, a disruptive new telecoms play. On my recent trip, I put it through its paces. ... http://salimismail.com/?p=95 Tom HC Bday card Wow, how bad a blogger am I (ok, I never really had the moniker anyway). But it's way long since I updated the ole papyrus. I've been back from Europe for 2-3 weeks and it's been non-stop meetings since. Let's first start by recapping ... http://salimismail.com/?p=94 A proposal for an Ignite talk I submitted has been accepted for next weeks Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. It's going to be about the metaphysics of growth, something I've been thinking, reading & writing about for about 15 years. I touched on this topic very briefly at Brad ... http://salimismail.com/?p=92 Onto the Q&A... this should be the fun stuff... Q: Why is x traffic study not being considered in your proposal A: The study wasn't done in time Q: You're claiming that after 400 new units the traffic will decrease? A: [[can't hear answer]] Crowd is getting raucous... "what are ... http://salimismail.com/?p=91 Boulder Bay town hall mtg Originally uploaded by salimismail Second speaker is up... mostly talking about road changes "... we're putting in guard rails where necessary..." "... heh heh.. well, that's it..." "... if there's a wildfire, folks can use our parking lots..." 7.50pm - Third ... http://salimismail.com/?p=90