Nice interview in the Mercury News with AlwaysOn founder Tony Perkins. AlwaysOn is the publishing group and networking site behind the AlwaysOn Innovation Summit going on right now at Stanford.
The conference recognizes a group of what AlwaysOn and a group of judges consider to be the Top 100 Private Companies as judged by innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation.
SiliconBeat has news of a new project Perkins is set to unveil called the GoingOn Network, an “ideal web experience” that allows users to “carry around with you things that are important to you.”
The first version will be launched via the AlwaysOn site, but it’ll eventually spin off into an open source version in which users can have a hand in managing their network.
Marc Canter has a nice bulleted list of its features, which he says include “every bell, whistle, coolio feature and advanced notion.”
This initiative as well as the recent acquisitions of social networking firms by traditional media companies, including yesterday’s purchase of Intermix and the Washington Post’s buyout of Slate last year make this a hot space to watch right now.
