I've blogged couple times on the event, before and after. Now the video is up and you can experience it youself.

Recently, Yahoo! was host to an open forum whose theme was "Using the Social Graph / Social Platforms to Enhance Search & Discovery". We invited the following people to sit and chat with the audience, answer questions and discuss their thoughts. Thank you to Kevin Marks from Google, Aditya Argarwal from Facebook, Eve Phillips CEO of Chirp, and Kent Brewster of Yahoo! for being a part of a great forum.  (video link)

The New CEO of Mozilla Corporation, John Lilly, appeared on The GigaOm Show for a short Q&A about what his new role means to Firefox users, the future of Mozilla Corporation, and the future of the Thunderbird E-mail client. John took over as CEO at the request of former CEO Mitchell Baker in January.

Watch this episode of The GigaOm Show here.

(Note: If you want to download the show and watch it on the go, the 'Small Quicktime' version plays well on the Nokia N95, N82, N95 8GB, N93, N93i, and other devices that have MP4 playback support.)

I am planning to go. See you there, if you happen to be in the area!

Google will be holding a hackathon to get you started on our JavaScript APIs! We will be doing short introductions of the APIs and then breaking up into groups for coding and camaraderie. There will be plenty of Google engineers present to answer questions and help you code along. Bring your laptops and come hangout at Google. Food will be provided. There will also be prize :)

Check out the Developer Events Calendar: http://code.google.com/events/

When: Friday, February 29. There will be two sessions -- one from
2:00PM - 5:30PM and another from 6:00PM - 10:00PM. You are welcome to stay for both.

Please RSVP here: http://googledevhackathonjsapis.googlemashups.com

Where: Google Campus: 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043. It will be held in Seville Tech Talk.

The APIs:
Google Gears [http://code.google.com/apis/gears/]
Google AJAX Search/Feeds [http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/]
Google Gadgets [http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/]
Google Maps [http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html]

Who: Anyone that wants to learn about some Google API's, do some
coding, or ask some questions.

It is wonderful to be in the bay area... Just so many talented people and exciting new technologies.

Last night I attended SDForum Search SIG panel session. The discussions were wonderful and going pretty fast. It was difficult to take notes but, there were few key items that are interesting (to me).

Panelists:
Kevin Marks from Google (heading the Google social graph API effort)
Aditya Argarwal (Director of Engineering, Facebook)
Kent Brewster (Yahoo! Working on MyBlogLog API)
Eve Phillips (CEO of Chirp)

Lightweight Social Graph vs. Accurate Social Graph - This has to deal with rather a social graph is for causal sharing or  rather details/accurate information are shared.
Avoid Anti-Patten - This term anti-patten is new to me, but according to Wikipedia, a solution that initially seems to be solveing problem, but later found to be cause more issues.
Portability of a social graph - Can you move it easily? Even further, if someone decides to leave the network, can all data be erased.
Privacy - The key is no surprises to the users
Not knowing users want want is common - Initially, at the bootstrap phase of a social network it is not often clear what the users really want. Listen to the users.
Every social network has a bootstrap phase.

Kent Brewster showed a really cool demo, the latest MyBlogLog API, which allow blog visitors' social graph (mush up) data shown. You can try the demo here: http://kentbrewster.com/blogjuice/ (just click on the Blog Juice link and select some people from the popup window) According to Mr. Brewster, he had only 2 days to work on it, so expect beta experience

Even Phillips CEO of Chrip showed off her company's product: A social network/mash up screen saver. http://www.chrip.com
 
Yahoo Media team taped the session, and they told me that the video will be on either http://next.yahoo.net or http://developer.yahoo.com . I don't want when the video will be up, but as soon as I know I will an update.

 W. Seto

Yahoo says NO.  I am sure this is just one source of may recording this email...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120274667426359131.html?mod=googlenews_wsj 

Register has reported this news. We all know, the Web, AJAX, JavaScript, DHTML can potentially have security issues. The challenges for mobile device manufacters are to prepare for threats handling and updates. Will the model of security updates as common as the PC world one day? We all hate those updates, but they are necessary. Firmware updates are often harder to do then on PC of course and the releases come only every few months. Should each manufacter has to start a threat response team to release update qucikly?

Nasty JavaScript code can zap new iPhone, iPod Touch

For those who are living in the San Francisco Bay area, the SDForum Search SIG will have panel discussion on this topic. Here I cut and paste the information I have received. I have registered, so see you there!

 Jeff Jarvis, a graduate school professor in NYC, was given a Nokia N82 while working with Reuters. He used it extensively while covering the World Economic Forum.

Beet.tv Interviewed Jeff to find out what he thinks is so empowering about using a Multimedia Camera Device, like the Nokia N82.

Watch the video over on Beet.tv.

 Source: IntoMobile

This is the first entry of the blog! This blog will be used to log all things web related, technologies, news and thoughts... You are welcome to exchange your thoughts on the web, aka to me the big W. I am hoping to invite some guests and partner writers for this site. Therefore you may see multiple writers blogging here.

Let's really start the blog...

The recent Mircosoft and Yahoo deal is all over the Internet. Now even Google is entering the disucssion. There are already enough bloggers, jounarlists, investors have expressed thier "feeling" toward this deal. Now's let check out what the two main characters in this deal have to say to thier employees:

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Microsoft employees explaining the Yahoo acquisition offer

Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang and the company's nonexecutive chairman, Roy Bostock, said to the employees of the deal

There is nothing we don't know about in the emails, but it is interesting to read the two emails side by side.