conjunctured, openID, semantics — all the stuff I love

Great day today.

Worked at Austin Java on Lamar with the guys and got the start of a new Conjunctured website mostly figured out. Along with some financial details and goals — which btw are to actively pursue new clients and have our coworking space — uh, asap. We’re looking for a space (downtown or the east side) and people who are down to work in it. We are totally pimping the model of our peeps Indy Hall and New Work City.

Got to have a brilliant conversation with my old Digital Identities professor, Christoph Engamann, about Austin, Conjunctured, innovation, openID vs M$ cardspace, startup communities, and the furtue of identity. WOW. This was important because I talked with Dick Hardt this week about managing the creation of/developing a plan for openID’s core messaging platform. – I couldn’t be more excited about this! This really deserves it’s own post soon. What does openID mean to you? It’s “the ID you own,” says Christoph.

After this, I rode with Eric to CycCorp headquarters for a meetup arranged by JohnDeO. There, I saw a demo of a semantic firefox plugin – honestly i didnt understand it. Michael Bergman, CEO of Zitgist LLC, gave a demo of Umbel – which is “A lightweight, subject concept reference structure for the Web” – I was blown away and that’s just scratching the surface of what Cyc can do.

There really is a large semantics community in Austin, I’m trying to get everyone together – if you’re in Austin and remotely interested in the semantic web (web 3.0), send me an email – this is a great group that will blow your mind.

Steve Reed gave a short presentation on his “open source project to create an artificial intelligence.” JohnDeO is one of the smartest guys I know. Tonight he said Steve was the smartest guy he knows…. What he is working on it will change the world.

When I got home I had an invite to Nova Spivack’s twine waiting for me – Thank you. ~5000 people on twine. Not really sure what i’m supposed to do. Share stuff in a place where none of my friends are? Nice tags though ??

The overall theme for today was a term JohnDeO uses often: Intelligence Amplification. It’s “AI” flipped to IA – it’s a great descriptor for what the semantic web and openID can do for us.