Dazed reports that Flickr is going to start selling off your Creative Commons licensed photographs:The site plans to handpick a few select photographers who will get 51%
of the sales, but the vast majority of people will see their images
printed onto canvas and sold for up to $49 a pop. The only ...
November 30, 2014
On my way home tonight, an elderly homeless man stopped me in the street and asked if he could sleep on my floor because it was cold and rainy. To my shame, I said I couldn't help him, although I could offer him some money, which he declined.He told me ...
November 20, 2014
Lately I've been thinking about the differences between entertainment and technology:entertainment n. the action of providing or being provided with amusement or enjoyment.technology n. the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.I've heard a lot about "delighting the user" lately. This is a good thing: a satisfying product does delight ...
November 19, 2014
I’ve spent my career writing open source web applications that are designed to be used by non-technical users. Elgg was a social networking platform that was described at the time as “MySpace in a box”. Known is a web platform that allows you to share and communicate from your own ...
November 14, 2014
Microsoft open sourced their .NET platform today.Superficially, this is a huge deal: a proprietary platform at the heart of their development offerings is now available under an MIT license. Fantastic! This has been a long time coming and illustrates that Microsoft has turned a corner.I think this is undeniably a ...
November 12, 2014
Imagine a global social network that nobody owns, where your profile can be uniquely your own, and you have full control of your identity.In May, Erin Jo Richey and I started work on Known as a full-time startup business. Our mission is to empower everyone to communicate from their own ...
November 7, 2014