Just finished creating a slidecast for my presentation from OSCON on the Open Web Foundation with audio from O'Reilly. So check it out if you actually want to hear what I said or download the mp3 .

Chatted with the Tom Hughes-Croucher from the Yahoo! Developer Network about the Open Web Foundation and Facebook Connect while up at OSCON last week.

Finally, two-way syncing with Google Calendar and iCal . Woot!

*** Hardt asks the question on his blog if Facebook Connect is a fatal blow to OpenID . I actually think that it helps to show why OpenID is going to become so valuable as you start to invest in your profile(s). To me, it shows that we're now all able to tell the same story and explain to normal people the value of having an identity and profile that can move about them around the web. Just as no one would let Microsoft own the protocol, no one is going to let Facebook either. I'm hoping that we'll

Building a little on my last post, I spoke at f8 earlier today to demo integration of Facebook Connect with Movable Type (made by Six Apart who I work for). You can read more about it on the Six Apart blog , though I wanted to share a photo from Venture Beat's coverage of f8 which I think helps show how all this stuff is starting to get tied together (read the posts if you don't get it). Also cool to see Digg showing OpenID in their new login UI next to Facebook.

Headed up to Portland this afternoon for OSCON and just put my schedule online if you want to check it out. I won't be there Wednesday as I'll be down at Facebook f8 for the day. Then back up Thursday for a 9:15am keynote on Supporting the Open Web ! Really busy week, with no sleep for me, but should be tons of fun and I look forward to seeing a bunch of awesome people!

Shot another episode of The Social Web TV with John and Joseph yesterday. Focused mainly on Meebo's new Community IM and how it's continuing the trend of making the entire web more social. Check it out and I'll be at both Facebook f8 and OSCON next week.

Late last week I ventured down to the South Bay and shot the first episode of TheSocialWeb.TV along with John McCrea and Joseph Smarr. All sorts of things have been happening over the past year when it comes to the Social Web (or more generally the Open Web) yet it isn't easy to know what's going on if you're not in the thick of it. So we turned to Gary Vaynerchuck for some inspiration as his daily show Wine Library TV kicks ass and illustrates how social media continues to evolve and the tools to

TechCrunch just posted about how Seesmic Hijacks Comments With Threaded Replies which continues a trend of concern around conversations becoming fragmented as more social aggregation services are launched. Seesmic offers video commenting on blogs and now allows someone to "respond to a Seesmic video by hitting a reply button with in the embeddable Seesmic player, and all the responses can be seen as video thumbnails if you mouse over the bottom of the player’s screen." (Mike, a check for $17.50 is

I love being a Dopplr Alpha tester! I've been wanting a public profile for quite awhile. They've provided all sorts of customization so I can share as much or as little as I'd like.