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job of rolling the feedback up to management as well as the rest of the Vista org for shared learnings.  It’s refreshing to see.  Vista is not perfect, but the team is actively taking notice of feedback and more importantly taking action.Yes Chris, I see you as a passionate user.  Thank you for taking the time and sharing.   [IMG]

[...] TechCrunch reports that Flickr’s APIs are not open to competitive sites. This means closing the APIs to Flickr users who want an easy way to use their content in another, competitive environment. This will be on-topic in two back-to-back sessions at BloggerCon next week, Users In Charge, led by Chris Pirillo; and Standards for Users led by Niall Kennedy (no writeup yet for that session). My goal is to help raise awareness that APIs are for the users, as are standards. They are not just a marketing checklist item, there are real, important reasons why users benefit when vendors don’t hold the users’ work hostage. It’s why Web 2.0 with its focus on vendors controlling “User Generated Content” creates problems for users.   [...]

[...] This will be on-topic in two back-to-back sessions at BloggerCon next week, Users In Charge, led by Chris Pirillo; and Standards for Users led by Niall Kennedy (no writeup yet for that session). My goal is to help raise awareness that standards are for the users. They are not just a marketing checklist item, there are real, important reasons why users benefit when vendors don’t hold the users’ work hostage. It’s why Web 2.0 with its focus on vendors controlling “User Generated Content” creates problems for users. [...]

[...] Niall Kennedy will be heading a session called Standards for Users and Chris Pirillo will lead a session called Users in Charge. Stewart and Kristopher - I hope you’re at both.  I will be. [...]

So I will continue to say that Stewart is a leader in this area - and clearly worth the $30M Yahoo paid for Flickr. So lets continue this discussion at BoggerCon IV. Niall Kennedy will be heading a session called Standards for Users andChris Pirillo will lead a session called Users in Charge. Stewart and Kristopher - I hope you’re at both.  I will be. Dave and I thought that a conference controlled by end-users, about end-user issues was apropos, so Dave has organized a kick *** event

Can’t wait. Events like these are a blogger’s dream come true, a chance to explore unique, mind-expanding ideas with other people who truly, definitely, do not mind talking about blogs, blogging, user-centric new media, thepower of the blogger as blogger (and why that’s so powerful), why “what is a weblog?” is not a dumb question, collaboration!, standards! and oh, so much more. Expect liveblogging from the event this Friday. Power to the blogger.

[...] Chris Pirillo led the first afternoon discussion at BloggerCon on the "power of users." Doc Searls notes on the discussion are here, and you can listen to the podcast from this page or download it. Chris’ premise is as follows: As a blogger, you have tremendous opportunities to tell developers what you need, what you expect, and what you want. You are the user - power or casual. If you don’t stand up for yourself, nobody’s going to do it for you. And contrary to popular belief, developers aren’t gods - and neither are users. If this is a real ecosystem, we need balance where none currently exists. Problem is, as users, we have to deal with the developers - who don’t always see the world from a user’s perspective. I’m not suggesting a revolution - I’m merely asking for other passionate users to start speaking up for the things they care about. I want to know if I’m the only user out there who isn’t afraid to say something (right or wrong) about the applications I work with (good or bad). [...]

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that excercises his writes as a consumer, customer and blogger. When something is wrong –he’ll voice it. Dave is inviting people to listen in –even if you’re not here! Chris is leading the discussion at Bloggercon about Users in Charge, he’sscripted a few notes in advance –the discussion is really around ‘customers taking charge’. He’s super vocal about problems that he finds –believeing the customers are in charge.

[IMG ] visible bandaid Originally uploaded by Liz Henry. I’m at theusers in charge discussion sitting against the back wall on the floor, my favorite place to be in discussions. I can fidget, lie down, lean on the wall, whatever, while being relatively non-visible. I’m listening with one ear… the conversation was just brought back

s apartment to the Triton we came to the conclusion that a simple upgrade in syndication specs should allow for easy archiving. A lot of time was spent talking about the sort of things we wanted from software during Pirillo’sUsers in Charge session (mp3) and that theme really should’ve been carried over into Dave’s idea. The desire to stay tightly on-topic prevented real change from happening. We had the one of the architects of the RSS standard

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