The web is the most powerful platform for collective discussion in the history of human civilization. However, the form and content of these conversations are effectively owned by a small number of companies.The photo sharing service TwitPic shuts down for good on Saturday:It’s with a heavy heart that I announce ...
October 24, 2014
Dick Hardt has written a nice overview of Twitter Digits over on Medium:The email and password prompt popular for the last 20+ years of the web does not work for the emerging markets when their first computer is a mobile phone. The “digital” identifier they have and use to identify ...
October 23, 2014
Over on the Intercom.io blog, Paul Adams discusses the "end of apps as we know them":How we experience content via connected devices – laptops, phones, tablets, wearables – is undergoing a dramatic change. The idea of an app as an independent destination is becoming less important, and the idea of ...
October 22, 2014
We've spent a long time on the next incremental version of Known, in order to reduce its technical requirements and improve compatibility with commonly-used shared hosts.You can download it as a .zip archive here.This is an incremental, early release for self-hosted users. A full release of 0.6.4 will follow. ...
October 19, 2014
Andy Baio is returning to longer-form posting:Twitter's for 140-character short-form writing and Medium's for
long-form. Weirdly, there really isn't a great platform for everything
in the middle — what previously would've just been called "blogging." Mid-length blogging. Middling.Gina Trapani is also returning to the form (and has some excellent advice). ...
October 18, 2014
The BBC is publishing a list of articles removed under the EU's "right to be forgotten" law:The BBC will begin - in the "next few weeks" - publishing the list of removed URLs it has been notified about by Google.Mr Jordan said the BBC had so far been notified of ...
October 17, 2014
Dustin Curtis, the creator of Svbtle, recently wrote:Apple is going to realize very soon that it has made a grave mistake by positioning itself as a bastion of privacy against Google, the evil invader of everyone’s secrets. The truth is that collecting information about people allows you to make significantly ...
October 9, 2014