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Ben Werdmuller

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03 Jul 2013

I wrote a post over at werd.io about idno, the open source publishing tool I've been building:

What decisions would I make if I was building Elgg today, in 2013? What would I do the same way, and what would I do differently?

It's still a relatively technical post - it's still very much in development, after all - but go read the whole post and let me know what you think.

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"Instagram no longer believes it can beat AI by making more or better content. It wants to be the referee, to decide what is real and what is not, and to build systems that can do it at scale."

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