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<a href="http://twitter.com/obra">@obra</a> I'm sorry about the libcurl support; required to reliably go check out pinging sites. Interested in feedback on this.

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Where the hipsters are, according to Yelp (or, a guide for Ben to choose where to live): http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/portlandia-everywhere-where-the-hipsters-are-a...

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"My wife, at her resting state, is heroic, and I am, in essence, just some guy." Amazing comment piece on abortion: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/03/rob-delaney-access-safe-legal-abortion

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<a href="https://twitter.com/sandeepshetty/status/352540142466113538">@sandeepshetty</a> Not anymore! Thanks for the spot.

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What do you do when you notice you're not firing on all cylinders but need to get something done right? Let's assume "add more coffee" isn't an option.

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The mother of all demos. Rest in peace, Doug Engelbart: http://vimeo.com/1408300

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Sweltering

Sweltering

That awkward moment where you realize you've made a terrible mistake and your is basically a greenhouse at this point.

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Interesting post by <a href="http://twitter.com/anildash">@anildash</a> on the golden age of RSS: http://dashes.com/anil/2013/07/the-golden-age-of-rss.html For markup for likes etc, see the community.

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That Europeans are just talking about boycotting US services betrays a lot about the nature of patriotism.

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Avoiding US services because of NSA spying is silly: Europe is at it too. Better to think differently about data.

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Returning to exercise after hurting my back a few weeks ago. Decline crunches are no problem; attempting push ups was a mistake. Owiee.

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@alevin Your phone holds your contact lists; their calendars etc can be found using their emails as a key. & with that, I crash.

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@alevin And implicitly defined groups or explicitly defined groups? (Friends near me vs cycling buddies)

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@alevin Fascinating use case because of the privacy / geolocation considerations.

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@alevin Gotcha. You need simple friends groups, ideally across apps / the web.

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@alevin I think absolutely. Of course they shouldn't care about indieweb or html5 - just a better app.

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<a href="https://twitter.com/alevin/">@alevin</a> The actual Firefox OS calendar is pretty much what you'd expect though: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/adding-calendars-firefox-os

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<a href="https://twitter.com/alevin/">@alevin</a> eg, we could all be pinging events to a "tech in the Bay Area" calendar, Plancast-style.

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<a href="https://twitter.com/alevin/">@alevin</a> Sure, both for single events & full calendars, between individuals and groups.

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Got $25,000? You could own Matthew Broderick's computer from WarGames: http://www.itworld.com/security/362522/buy-matthew-broderick-s-old-movie-computer-possibly-impress-a... (And, oh, I wish I did.)

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<a href="https://twitter.com/tryberg/">@tryberg</a> Thanks! I posted a longer explanation over here: http://werd.io/entry/51d3c98cbed7de6715d8fd15/what-idno-is

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<a href="http://twitter.com/alevin">@alevin</a> No, I agree. It's got to be effortless, intuitive and completely non-technical.

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<a href="http://twitter.com/alevin">@alevin</a> I think it's okay for it to be very niche. For one thing, it'll have more space to develop that way.

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<a href="https://twitter.com/alevin/">@alevin</a> .. but for obvious reasons it won't enjoy the same kind of network effects as, say, Twitter and Facebook.

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<a href="https://twitter.com/alevin/">@alevin</a> When you make it turnkey and start integrating full-web devices (eg Firefox OS in emerging markets) it gets interesting ..

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