This is old news, but Bebo the ailing social network site (3rd in the U.S.) licensed Facebook’s API and claims to be 100% compatible.   This is very exciting news, because this is our second chance to be amongst the first in an open social platform, again.  We missed the boat when Facebook first opened up their API, we won’t make that same mistake twice when Hi5, Orkut, and others open up their social platforms.  We’ll be ready.
Tomorrow I’m taking the day off - I’m going shopping in San Francisco; however, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday will be very long days for me.  We’re updating KlickNation.com, applying for some trademarks (legal stuff), launching a new application, and porting one to two applications to Bebo and we will be reviewing the Friendster API.  We’re still deliberating the decision to develop on Friendster or not.  They have their own proprietary libraries and APIs, some standardization would be nice.  We looked at Google’s Open Social APIs and they are lacking and half-finished.
A friend of mine visited me today, Meliza from UC Davis.  She’s an attorney.  It was good to see her again.  After b-school school, all of us can get so caught up in the daily maintenance of things that we forget to stop, breath and say hi to our friends.  Thanks Meliza for stopping by the yogurt shop to say “hi.”  It was good to see you.

I’m mentally celebrating at the office at this very moment, You and Me hit 30,000 users a couple of hours ago.  We’re one day ahead of schedule and anticipate reaching our 100,000 user goal by the end of next week.  By the end of the month we should have between 250,000 to 300,000 users if we continue to grow virally.  If we hit these goals then I’ll believe in Christmas again

Happy Holidays,

- Mark

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