This post by Bill Mills about power and communication in open source is great: Being belittled and threatened and told to shut up as a matter of course when growing up is the experience of many; and it does not correlate to programming ability at all. It is not enough
Twitter - by far the social network that I use the most - is struggling to break 300 million monthly active users and is not hitting revenue targets. (Contrast with Facebook's 1.44 billion monthly actives.) Even investor Chris Sacca has warned that he's going to
Memorial Day is an American holiday that commemerates people who have lost their lives in service to the United States. It's similar to Remembrance Day in the commonwealth countries, except that it's also a long weekend that marks the start of the summer. My dad spent
"Daddy," Wendy said, looking up at the sky, the cloudless blue stretching opaquely in all directions. "Can people fly?" I smiled at her. "They say that some people can," I said. "Can I fly?" I shook my head, smiling. "No, honey,
Known gives you the ability to share the content you create across social media platforms at the point of publishing, with just one click. I'm deliberately not doing that with this post. If you're reading it, it's because you came to my site, or
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Ten years ago last November, we released the first version of Elgg. An open source social networking platform originally designed for higher education, where it was used by Harvard and Stanford, it spread to organizations like Oxfam, Orange, Hill & Knowlton and the World Bank, as well as national governments
But I'm intrigued about the dolphin teeth.
Just over four years since I permanently moved to California, I'm beginning to understand the differences in work style between the US and Europe. America still has a largely time-based view of productivity, even in Silicon Valley. But with tech industries in other nations catching up fast, and
We just released Convoy, an add-on service for Known that lets you use our servers to more easily share content with social media. Previously, self-hosted site owners needed to create individual developer accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc, and manage API integrations with each one. It was a pain, and
See: http://activations.mozilla.org/
There was one conversation I used to hate more than any other. I used to brace myself for it; grit my teeth in anticipation. Here's how it would happen. "Where are you from?" someone would ask, detecting that my accent wasn't quite British; something