Marc Benioff, the CEO at Salesforce, is cancelling all programs in Indiana:
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says he doesn’t want his employees subjected to discrimination as part of their work for the San Francisco-based company, and he is cancelling all required travel to the state of Indiana following the signing of ...
March 26, 2015
Earlier this week, it emerged that Facebook was in talks to host the content from publications like the New York Times, Buzzfeed and National Geographic. Today, it "opened up" their Messenger app into a platform that can be incorporated into a host of other apps and services, as well as ...
March 25, 2015
Known is my second open source startup. I've spent over a decade working with free and open source software, and have been producing it in a startup context for most of that time. I've had a lot of time to think about the realities of doing this.
I believe that free and ...
March 20, 2015
I enjoyed this episode of This Week in Startups with USV's Fred Wilson. It's a fairly candid conversation from this year's Launch Festival, and Fred comes across as having both integrity and a very practical approach to investing in startups.
The story that jumps out at me is that of Tumblr's ...
March 16, 2015
In today's climate, it's important that we secure communications with our servers. For example, if you're on open wifi (at a coffee shop, for example, or at a conference), it's trivial to steal the unsecured logins of the people around you. Using secured connections also helps protect against people monitoring ...
March 14, 2015
"The thing about alternative people," a coworker once said to me, many jobs ago, "is that they act like the mainstream isn't good enough for them. It's like they're saying they're better than us." He was talking about a receptionist at our office, who was kind of off-kilter, but not ...
March 10, 2015
We launched Known Pro today. It's the best way to reach your audience, wherever they are on the web, from a single platform. It's also the culmination of a lot of work over the last few months.
We made an important decision, back in November: we were going to test whether a ...
March 6, 2015
Large tech companies like Google and Facebook should be aware of the effect they're having on their cities and neighboring communities and invest in social infrastructure to protect against poverty and create healthier cities.
A single-payer healthcare system would not only be more efficient, but would support startups and other small ...
March 5, 2015
I'm incredibly proud of what we've accomplished at Known so far.
We're one of the few social web apps where you can use our cloud service or host it yourself - or move at any time, in either direction.
We have an active and growing open source community.
More and more university educators are using ...
March 3, 2015