Dave Morin

To all of my amazing friends, family, and colleagues around the world this holiday season. May your fingers be warm, cocoa be rich, and the coming year be as wonderful as the last.

Happy Holidays!

Live life well.

Dave

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Today is a historic day in the history of our great nation. As you watch the results stream in via your favorite news network (mine is CNN). Be sure to check out some of the awesome places on the internet that can make your Election night experience better:

First, be sure to join the election status rally on Causes.

Give your friends an election gift on Facebook, and make sure to publish your “Vote” story.

See where your friends stand on CNN’s The Forum with Facebook Connect

Watch the live election conversation on Twitter.

And, for literally the best view of the live results coming in, check out what Google Maps is doing as the votes stream in:

Go Obama!

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When I was a kid, I used to spend a lot of time on my Mac computer after school and through the night. I would generally do whatever fit my fancy on any given day. But more often than not it meant programming, hanging in IRC, or exploring what would become the Internet.

My parents would inevitably yell down to my room, “time for dinner!” To which I would respond, “ok, just a minute!” I would then continue doing whatever I was doing on the computer until my parents would inevitably get pretty mad that I hadn’t come to eat dinner yet. I think most of my generation probably knows exactly what I’m talking about

This was, and probably still is, pretty annoying for parents worldwide.

Last night I met up with some new friends in Geneva, and we were having a conversation about life, family, and technology. At one point we started talking about the iPhone and what a great new innovation it is. One of the guys mentioned that the best new thing about the iPhone is how it ha changed his kids behavior around dinnertime.

Now, when he says “time for dinner!”, his kids come running, iPhone in hand, right to the dinner table.

Now, the iPhone is an incredible new platform that we are all excited about for various reasons. But getting more kids to the dinner table again? That sounds like social progress to me.

Frankfurt, Germany

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I’ve been off the blogging grid for some time now. It’s been an absolutely amazing period of my life since my last blog, filled with incredible people and incredible growth. I’m humbled by the successes I’ve had an opportunity to be a part of over the last year. And, I’m hoping to put the proverbial pen to paper over the coming months to get back to putting my thoughts and ideas out into the blogosphere.

Last week I spoke on a panel at O’Reilly Media’s Web 2.0 Expo called Comparing Social Platforms, with some great people like David Recordon, Jessica Alter, Allen Hurff, and Patrick Chanezon. If the media from the session becomes available I’ll be sure to post it here.

I then had the opportunity to attend the keynote session, where Tim O’Reilly gave an inspiring speech on the power of collective intelligence and the need to go after “big, hard problems,” Max Levchin delivered compelling advice for entreprenuers, and Clay Sharky gave an absolutely genius talk on what he calls the “cognitive surplus.” His talk was so good, in fact, that I wanted to post it here. Trust me, its worth your time:

Can you imagine what the future of the internet will look like if we can move the needle even 10% from where we are today?

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