Maybe its a typo?

I am in boston for a couple of days attending a conference and was looking for a place to grab something to eat...there's chili's within the hotel complex, so was going to walk over for dinner, but thought I'd check out the menu before I did....There was a link to nutritional info so i thought i would give it a quick read....the one item that caught my eye was the "Awesome Blossom", their answer to Outback's Blooming Onion I guess...

Check out the nutritional info on this bad boy...200 grams of fat, and 194 grams of carbs in 1 serving...Holy crap, and this is just an appetizer....So I am obviously going to head over there after I click "Publish Post" and see what all the hype is about....Something tells me it is probably pretty damn tasty.

Interesting week in Social Networking Space

Within the last week or so, the social networking space has changed drastically and a lot like in a game of school yard football, teams have been chosen for the ensuing battle for supremacy in the Social Networking arena.

If I have it right, Microsoft and Facebook are on one side, opting for a closed approach, meaning that participants can't take their data with them to other social networks, and that facebook app developers wouldn't be able to port their apps to other social networks.

On the other side, there's Open Social....A consortium of top social network players, (as well as companies we do not typically associate with Social Networking). Oracle, Salesforce, Linkedin, Friendster, Myspace, Flikster, RockYou, Slide and of course, Google. Through a collection of OpenSocial APIs, social networking apps can be shared across this consortium, enabling a supposed proliferation of web apps for end users.

So based on this, it seems the OpenSocial approach is one that will bring more functionality to end users. And ironically, the Facebook approach ends up seeming very closed, old school and Web 1.0 when it flies in the face of the blatantly wide ope OpenSocial.

The one thing that is not yet clear to me is how this OpenSocial initiative may approach the challeng of unique identifiers for folks in the social fabric. I am Brian Kane on linkedin, Brian Kane on Facebook, Brian Kane on orkut, etc... When do these get linked? Do they get linked? stay tuned...

My old sneakers

Lots of people have asked me recently about the sneakers i have owned in the past...so here it is, at long last, the blog post that answers all the questions...some of my old sneakers



An old fave...the magic johnson converse hightops..i LOVED these, and wish i never threw them out






Another gem, the original Air Jordans...so sweet, not to mention my orange chuck taylors that i bought right before i started at University of Miami (yeah, i know, not a very cool way to start freshman year)















Of course, the classic Adidas Superstars...my parents thought i was nuts when they needed to spend $40 on them and bring them up on visiting day during summer camp...

What has happened to Eminem?

Based on this video, it is safe to say that Eminem (and possibly triumph the dog too) are officially irrelevant.

Their first halloween and this is what they are wearing?

Not my favorite choice of costumes for the twins, but i guess they kinda look cute


Would've been a nice shot of the family if not for Sam...
I've never seen a real construction worker cry like this before (please, no village people jokes)

When Luke Attacks!

Matthew "Mick-On-A-Hey" Where are you?

Note: I didn't want to give the sexiest man alive any additional rationale for a swelled head, so i didn't google the right spelling of his name, so the phonetic version is listed above....

I have been a huge fan of Amazon's unbox since it launched...I really believe that this is a sound model for content distribution, and in my own discussions with folks at Amazon, I have basically begged them to show some patience in evaluating the success of the technology....So in short, i am a fan...

on saturday though, decided to try something different and forgo the the re-runs of Law and Order SVU for an Unbox download, "We are Marshall" starring Mr. Matthew Mick-on-a-Hey....Well it has been over 48 hours and I am still waiting....I will of course now contact Amazon support to find out what happened, and try get my 99 cents back, but I have now already been forced to watch Stabler and Bensen yet again track down NYC's slimiest pervs.

While I love the idea of Unbox, there are still challenges - the bandwidth issue primarily as i see it - that will prevent the wide-scale acceptance of this technology. Fiber to the desktop may help, but we're years away from that at grand scale...I am hopeful that Unbox doesn't go the way of "Urbanfetch" before that time.