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thomped:

A position I agree with though was not fully on the bandwagon until I experienced the execution of Small Business Saturday. Also of note is foursquare migrated their technology to Scala (from PHP?), and did so in a way that was largely transparent to their user base. I’ve been impressed with them even when I was pessimistic (which was due to a not yet realized business model). 4sq is an impressive organization.

I’ve been infatuated with 3D printing for a few years now; the rise of (NYC’s own!) MakerBot and other startups offering simple ways to create physical objects as easily as we create paper output…

Twitter’s Bootstrap framework for creating web sites and apps is the culmination of half a decade’s work by the web design community in creating CSS resets, grid systems and toolkits…

I think we’ve had more debates in the past few weeks for the Republican candidates so far than are typically held in the entirety of an election season, but the questions have generally been…

newsme:

We’ve traded gatekeepers that sell us irresponsible news (like broadcast TV news) for gatekeepers that sell us to advertisers while allowing community to degenerate to the lowest common denominator (as with Facebook or YouTube). I think there can be a better way, and I’m hoping News.me and others play a part in it.

Well, it seems like my post on how Facebook is gaslighting the web struck a nerve with a lot of folks. I have to give first priority to publishing the responses I’ve gotten directly from Facebook…

Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden into openly attacking its users’ ability and willingness to navigate the rest of the web. The evidence that this is true even for sites which…