Silicon Florist

Justin Kistner writes “On this Friday the 13th we’re going to talk about DiSo with Scott Kveton and Michael Richardson of Vidoop. DiSo is a cool project started by Chris Messina and Steve Ivy to create a distributed social network. Vidoop is sponsoring the session and will have several of its out-of-town employees there.”

Alex Williams writes “We launched iterasi on Firefox 3 today. Iterasi is fully compatible with Firefox 3 on Windows XP and Vista. You may add iterasi to Firefox 3 just like other extensions.”

Louis Gray writes “On the Web, this process can be extremely fast. One month’s golden boy can be next month’s afterthought. One week’s addiction can be next week’s memory. For a service to succeed, it needs to attract those early adopters who can help propel a strong population, but it needs to do all it can to keep those adopters feeling like partners and mainstream users, before letting neglect fire up their egos so much that they leave you altogether. Making a successful Web service is more than writing the best code. It’s also about relationships. And while the early adopter crowd is notoriously fickle, they’re not going away all that soon.”

From Drupal.org “I am arranging for a Drupalcon Booth at OSCON. Let me know if you are available to represent Drupal during the following hours.”