Bruce Sterling, in Wired, cracks me up:

“Pesky Scoble! He’s like one geek with a damn camera! There used to be *whole thick bureaucratic and financial and economic and social and personal layers of insulation* between tech startups and the general populace… I mean, people like La Bianchini there, they sure existed — but you didn’t get *pitchforked right into her lap*… What happened to the #$@$%# lagtime and market-friction?! “Those *&&%$$ blogger revolutionaries! They’re worse than the 90s dot-com boomers! They’re more disruptive. They’re violently disruptive. They are not just kiting stocks, they are really tearing into the fabric of reality.”

Ahh, Ray Ozzie spoke at a Goldman Sachs conference this morning. Todd Bishop of Seattle PI has the details. Key quote from Todd’s report? “There were no obvious bombshells, or surprise announcements, but people interested in where the company is headed will no doubt be analyzing his comments for indications and clues.”

I did scour his comments for anything interesting. I didn’t find anything except a hint (if you turn your screen sideways and read between the characters) that he’s going to hook whatever he’s working on into the entertainment world that Microsoft has built. Translation: look for Live.com to use Xbox Live’s points system. They were talking about doing that back before I left Microsoft. That would be a great idea, but we need to see the implementation.

I wonder how many more speeches Ray is going to give where he doesn’t send some stronger gestures about what Microsoft is going to actually do in the Internet space? To me, each speech is a wasted opportunity. Guess we gotta wait for Mix07.

John Dowdell is keeping a list of links of people who say something interesting about the Adobe Engage event I’m at.

Good posts so far?

Tim O’Reilly on creating engaged users.
David Berlind of ZDNet on Microsoft vs. Adobe and Adobe’s timeline.
Jeff Barr (Web services evangelist at Amazon) has a mind-map of Kevin Lynch’s talk, among other notes.

Heheh, funny, I just saw a demo that looked just like this one on Mike Harsh’s blog (his is done in Microsoft’s WPF, the one I saw was done in Adobe Apollo). It shows, though, some of the new UI aesthetics that are coming your way from lots of application developers.

The Adobe Engage event is already proving interesting. Ryan Stewart wins the first report to come through Google Blog Search.

Takeaway? Adobe is indeed coming after developers. It’s interesting to hear their positioning vs. Microsoft. My post last week pretty much nailed it. Adobe’s Kevin Lynch says they try to extend the Web where Microsoft looks, he says, to extend Windows.

Adobe’s weaknesses? Corporate developers are safely in Microsoft’s camp because Adobe’s Apollo system (which lets developers build Windows, Mac, or Linux applications) can’t get to the Windows API (or the Mac API, or Linux’ API).

The other real loser here? Java. Apollo delivers real cross-platform apps that look a lot like what Microsoft always demonstrated with .NET 3.0 (great looking UIs and rich interaction).

But, clearly, Lynch wanted to position Apollo against Microsoft’s WPF/E, not Java.

Anyway, more later, we’re sitting through a ton of third-party demos now.

It’s not usual when I can get videos up of two companies breaking news (Ning and ClipMarks) all in the same night, but here’s the videos of ClipMarks: interview with Eric Goldstein, co-founder, and demo of ClipMarks by Eric.

I’m off to the Adobe Engage event, more later.

UPDATE: Rafe Needleman has more on ClipMarks here. TechMeme has more about ClipMarks 2.0 here.

DEMO:

INTERVIEW:

One of the cool things I’ve seen lately is ClipMarks. You know how Del.icio.us lets you bookmark a page? Or email it around?

Well, ClipMarks does something similar, but you can point to just a paragraph on my blog, or an entry, or a photo, or anything, really.

At 5 a.m. today I’ll have a video demo up on ScobleShow.com, but in the meantime, go and check it the just released ClipMarks 2.0.

Davis Janowski has the details.

I hope you don’t miss Marc Andreessen talking about his perspective of what he’s been seeing since he started Netscape back in 1994. The good part starts at about minute 16 of the interview I did with him and Gina of Ning.

One fun part was where Marc admitted he didn’t get how big a deal the Web would be when he first saw it either.

Jeremy David says I changed his life. Just by listening to him at last week’s Northern Voice conference. I’m not always a good listener, though, just ask my wife Maryam.

In the winning friends category, I picked David Ingram up at the airport today. The lengths I’ll go to so I can get a good interview and look at some killer new technology. Izimi has it, they have a P2P app that really impressed me, even though it didn’t quite work due to flaky Wifi at the Niko hotel (not their fault).

If we were IM’ing I could share a bunch of files with you without copying them up to a server. I’ll be using this to collaborate with coworkers so they can get my video files without me needing to copy them up first (will save lots of uploading time).

The offer is still open, if you are a developer and have built something interesting (you define what that means) I want to have you on ScobleShow. Unfortunately I’m pretty much booked into April, but I’ll figure out how to sneak you onto the schedule.

I’ll even pick you up from the airport if that’d help.

No, I’m not going to Microsoft’s MVP Summit. Instead SXSW in Austin is calling my name. Anyone want to meet up?

Next Tuesday, though, Kevin Schofield will give me a tour through Microsoft’s coolest research stuff. That should be fun, considering the stance I’ve been taking for the past week here.