<![CDATA[Six Apart's Brad boy is Googling a new idea - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Six Apart's Brad boy is Googling a new idea - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Six Apart's Brad boy is Googling a new idea]]> By "though neither he nor Google has confirmed this," do you mean to suggest you masqueraded as a real journalist and called them (not E-mailed, called) for an actual comment? Or do you mean "Though neither he nor Google knew I was writing about this, hence neither has spontaneously E-mailed me a confirmation"?

Joe Clark

]]> <![CDATA[Six Apart's Brad boy is Googling a new idea]]> I knew him personally! One of him, anyway.

johnnypotatoes

]]> <![CDATA[Six Apart's Brad boy is Googling a new idea]]> @grimmtooth: You've made me so happy just knowing that someone else remembers Skinny DuBaud. I thought I was the only one.

Owen Thomas

]]> <![CDATA[Six Apart's Brad boy is Googling a new idea]]> My initial feelings about this post: [imgs.xkcd.com]

After reflection: poorly documented and misleading. "Insults"? Where? "Difficult employee"? Cite, please. And so on and so forth.

"Grown-up responsibilities?" Please. He's an engineer, not a manager. I can count the number of software engineers that make good managers on one hand. The two professions are mutually antagonistic.

There's some interesting analysis here that unfortunately got slimed by the manufactured drama. That's a pity.

You've almost made me start missing Skinny DuBaud.

grimmtooth

]]> <![CDATA[Six Apart's Brad boy is Googling a new idea]]> @kingsley -- Agreed, Orkut still has dominance in it's markets, and perhaps it's due for a blogger-style refresh.

As for the rest of this article? Some of it's correct, some not. And trying to boil down a complex situation into sensational headlines just doesn't work. (I mean really -- "Brad boy"? let's have a little respect here...) I doubt that you'll find anyone that's happy Brad's leaving, and as usual the LJ drama is way over-represented. LiveJournal represents an important technology and user base for Six Apart -- hardly what I would call "saddled".

I do agree that working on open ways of interlinking social networks with open protocols and standards will be good for Six Apart, Brad, and especially consumers. Six Apart has pushed many of these standards from the start, FOAF, OpenID, OPML, Atom, and more. I'd hate to think of what the web would be like without these innovations. And I am looking forward to more and better interoperability in the future. That's way more interesting than any hyped up employer/employee drama anyday :)


Paul Lindner

]]> <![CDATA[Six Apart's Brad boy is Googling a new idea]]> Orkut is only "failing" right here in the USA. It's humongous in India and Brazil. If Google gets their shit together, they can turn it into a winner. Unfortunately, they can no longer tell which spaghetti is sticking.

Kingsley 2.0

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