This is the best post about open source business models I've ever read. https://medium.com/@nayafia/how-to-think-about-investing-in-open-source-89936413a8f9#.ndpsljhu6
Happy birthday! And best wishes for a wonderful rotation ahead.
The US government's draft code policy requires agencies to release at least 20% of their software as open source: https://sourcecode.cio.gov/
@kylewmahan The weird thing is, I sort of ended up as "the other Ben Ward" *anyway*.
A Sky journalist obtained a db of 22K ISIS fighters. Genuinely curious how it was stored. (Security deposit!) http://www.metafilter.com/157791/Disaffection-pays-dividends
A deservedly critical portrait of Nancy Reagan ... in Teen Vogue. http://www.teenvogue.com/story/nancy-reagan-death-hiv-aids-legacy
Stories define us.
Media is the connective tissue of society.
Wine is delicious.
@mattervc open evening tomorrow: https://tgifwithmatter.splashthat.com/
I went through a few years as a teenager when I hated my surname. I wanted to change it to Ward to fit in. In retrospect: glad I didn't.
The fun part is when everyone adopts a "wait and see" attitude and creates the thing they were afraid of to begin with. #bubbles
"You're not the Jesus of computers." Some thoughts on making a business: https://medium.com/building-an-open-startup/7-things-i-ve-learned-about-startups-886d3ec0422e
We're huge fans of @getprpl. Check it out - @rebeccajharris is doing a great job as a one-woman robot reporter.
The biggest challenge to creating an indie Netflix is solving the "do I have the right to see this?" problem. It wouldn't be wise to strong-arm every movie into being free. That's an entire industry, and just as they don't have the right to tell us how to build software, we don't have the right to tell them how to distribute their movies.
So, we need the ability to represent a contract, and to tell the owner of the movie who has watched it. Potentially, money is in the mix, meaning we'd need to solve the microtransaction problem. I'm not interested in filling out a credit card number every time I want to watch something.
Then, there's the matter of representing the movie itself. Netflix creates 100+ streaming versions of each title, in order to best match your internet connection and device. It then dynamically switches between those versions depending on your changing Internet connection characteristics. I'm not sure what Netflix's switching window is, and I suspect they change it over time.
So, there's the ability to serve the movie quickly, and in a way that uses your Internet connection efficiently (and is cost-effective for everyone involved).
Finally, there's the ability to find it to begin with (and, in my case, spend 45 minutes deciding what to watch). So you'd need some kind of hub that intelligently filters / categorizes movies. You could write a client that queries this database, so there'd be no need for the hub to remember your preferences or keep track of what you'd watched - that would be on your own site.
Er, I vote someone else writes this. But: this kind of distributed media system could be a boon for indie movies in particular.
@timmmmyboy Yeah! And thanks! Luckily that's all behind me. But it was a good reminder to take better care of myself.
Anchor just introduced voice annotations. Could be interesting: https://medium.com/@anchorfm/introducing-voice-commentary-by-anchor-af5c8f4e1487#.nljacignl
"Ich bin begeistert von der schlanken Blogging-Software Known." http://www.konradlischka.info/2016/01/blog/fuenf-faustregeln-fuer-nachhaltige-digitale-dienste-und-e... #indieweb #deutsch
Do I have to write a piece about why using the blockchain for #edtech is a lousy idea? It sounds like I might.
"Fail forward" doesn't always work as well if you're not a white man. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/opinion/sunday/the-art-of-failing-upward.html
@mpstaton @gsiemens @amdulin @BBurnsEDU @kreshleman Biggest problem with startups is often not solving a concrete problem to begin with.
@mpstaton @kreshleman @amdulin @gsiemens @BBurnsEDU @HigherEdSurge Surely an argument could be made that better learning affects endowments?
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