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Alex Stamos: I was the expert witness on Aaron’s side of US vs Swartz, engaged byhis attorneyslast year to help prepare a defense for his April trial. It is an interesting read.

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Alex Stamos: I was the expert witness on Aaron’s side of US vs Swartz, engaged byhis attorneyslast year to help prepare a defense for his April trial. It is an interesting read.

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Alex Stamos: I was the expert witness on Aaron’s side of US vs Swartz, engaged byhis attorneyslast year to help prepare a defense for his April trial. It is an interesting read.

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Alex Stamos: I was the expert witness on Aaron’s side of US vs Swartz, engaged byhis attorneyslast year to help prepare a defense for his April trial. It is an interesting read.

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Alex Stamos: I was the expert witness on Aaron’s side of US vs Swartz, engaged byhis attorneyslast year to help prepare a defense for his April trial. It is an interesting read.

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That is a lot of Earth-sized planets. A lot. For instance, look at what NASA estimates for our galaxy alone: Since the Milky Way has about 100 billion stars, there are at least 17 billion Earth-sized worlds out there. And then there are the countless billions of galaxies besides our own. I wonder if we’ll […]

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Alex Stamos: I was the expert witness on Aaron’s side of US vs Swartz, engaged byhis attorneyslast year to help prepare a defense for his April trial. It is an interesting read.

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Aaron Swartz, who tragically committed suicide yesterday, in an interview from 2007 when he was just 20 years old: If you talk to any woman in the tech community, it won’t be long before they start telling you stories about disgusting, sexist things guys have said to them. It freaks them out; and rightly so. […]

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Nathan Kontny: "If my idea isn’t worth copying then it’s not a very good idea. If my product or business can’t handle a new competitor, then it’s not a very good product." If someone copies your idea for a product it should make you feel validated for having the idea in the first place. Build […]

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DHH: If you’re not committed to your life’s work in a company and with people you could endure for decades, are you making progress on it? Yes. I am.

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Canonical is calling this Ubuntu for phones but even in their own presentation they mention it will run on tablet devices. Yesterday I said, on Twitter, that I was happy to see another entrant into this market. Android and iOS are not enough choices (though we’ve been dealing with Mac OS vs. Windows for years […]

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Dalton Caldwell, co-founder of App.net, does some thinking about organizational complexity. He contrasts how a simple demonstration of Artificial Intelligence does not necessarily mean that model is scalable to do more complex tasks. The model needs to change with the growth. The same too with a company. The organization needs to change as it grows […]

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Dr. James Naismith published these original 13-rules of basketball in 1892. I especially like #5: 5. No shouldering, holding, pushing, tripping, or striking in any way the person of an opponent shall be allowed; the first infringement of this rule by any player shall count as a foul, the second shall disqualify him until the […]

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Seems appropriate to link back to an episode of Random 60 discussing Flickr. Remember, this was three years ago. "The woman CEO" that I mention in the episode is not the current CEO Marisa Mayer but Carol Bartz. There have been five CEOs at Yahoo! since I recorded this episode!

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I enjoyed this interview of Quentin Tarantino in the NY Times. Especially this bit on Page 5: I remember reading a review that Pauline Kael wrote about some director’s big epic, and she said: Now, look, it might seem unfair to judge a talented man more harshly when he tries to do something big than […]

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One niggle I had with the new Flickr app for iOS was the upload progress indicator was far too subtle (though an interesting take on what could be done to make it unobtrusive). They fixed that with this update. Now they need to take a queue from Instagram (and many other modern mobile apps) and […]

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In my recent How Flickr can eat Instagram’s table scraps. I’m Instagram’s table scraps. And so are you. piece I postulated that Flickr needed to make some adjustments and, possibly, make a new account type that was a little less expensive to compete with the free Instagram. Well, Flickr has done something that I think […]

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I’ve been using IFTTT a ton lately. I would pay for the service without blinking an eye (especially if it supported things like multiple accounts per channel). This big round of funding is well deserved.

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Well, not really. This post is really about how Don Melton doesn’t remember how Safari got its name and how there are a lot of stories to tell you about later. So, to whoever suggested the name “Safari,” thank you. Though I’m a Chrome guy now (Safari is just far too slow) I too thank […]

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Issie Lapowsky for Inc. on Dublin’s booming tech scene: Now, despite the country’s ongoing economic struggles, a slew of emerging growth start-ups are flocking to the city of pints and pubs. This year alone, tech darlings including Indeed.com, Hubspot, Zendesk, and, most recently, Dropbox, have opened or announced plans to open offices in Dublin. I […]

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Nilay Patel, of The Verge and a guy with a law degree on his wall, chimes in about Instagram’s policy changes.

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MG Siegler, who inexplicably still writes for AOL TechCrunch, writes about people "quitting" Instagram. The real world:Quit, verb, to leave (a place), usually permanently. The internet:Quit, verb, to threaten to leave as loudly as possible, usually over something stupid, then do nothing. I’ll admit it. When I first saw the Instagram news I too wanted […]

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If you’re a member of a fairly popular web service you’re probably becoming more and more familiar with feature roll outs. A feature roll out is when a new feature is added to a service for a certain number of users at a time and, after some duration of time, every user on that service […]

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Great list of tips and features for Flickr’s new iOS application. Iparticularlylike number 3: 3. Apply a single filter to multiple photos at once. Did you fall in love with a particular filter? We’ve made it easy for you to apply it to multiple photos at once. You simply select the photos from your camera […]

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Before I even get started; Flickr can not stop Instagram at this point. Flickr can not beat Instagram in terms of hockey-stick-growth. Even with Instagram’s recent policy changes Instagram is on a trajectory to hit the nearest star and Flickr nor Bruce Willis can stop them now. But, to succeed they do not need to […]

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Tom Warren, of The Verge, agrees with me about Flickr gaining from this recent Instagram policy change: With a nicely redesigned client and support for filters, Flickr is finally catching up to battle Instagram on the photo sharing front. And its dormant community of lapsed Pro users (who are required to pay a nominal fee […]

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The web has been ablaze yesterday and today about the new Instagram policies. Instagram has written a blog post to ensure everyone that there has been some confusion and they are going to do whatever they can to make everything more clear. Good. I hope everyone didn’t go and delete their Instagram accounts without waiting […]

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In short; Instagram is now going to share your information with its parent-company Facebook in order to serve more relevant ads. Instagram will share things like the places you visit, your interests (remember all those photos you’ve liked?), and even your photos in order to tailor advertising to you. You can look at this any […]

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Fantastically written piece from my teenaged friend Abby Wagner: People want to secure material in something more reliable than a single website. I think she has a future in writing.

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Just about everyone is saying that the new Google Maps app for iOS is a big win for users. But, one thing that is holding it back from being truly great is the level at which it can be integrated into iOS. Well, here is one tip to open Google Maps with Siri that should […]

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Or, at least soon you will be. The Next Web has all the details. With over 26,000 tweets under my two-sizes-too-big belt I can say that I’m very happy about this. Twitter has now given me a way to relive the last 6 years of my life whenever I choose.

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Todd Troxell, ex-coworker and co-founder of Vid.io, asked an interesting question on Hacker News that got some great responses: Your most productive time. How do you do it? For me, I’m most productive early in the morning and mid-afternoon when I get back from lunch. I’m worthless just before lunch and anytime at night. That […]

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Anil Dash waxes poetic about the web of turn of the century before Facebook and Twitter. But then talks about what is happening now: But we’re going to face a big challenge with re-educating a billion people about what the webmeans, akin to the years we spent as everyone moved off ofAOLa decade ago, teaching […]

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Swizec explains why founders shouldn’t be the developers: There’s no getting around that, no matter how good a programmer you are, no matter how experienced, it’s just hard. Programming doesn’t require a lot of attention, it requires _all_of attention. I agreed. As much as the founder wants to be the developer they shouldn’t be. I don’t think […]

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Sam Stephenson, creator of Prototype JavaScript framework and team member at 37Signals, explains why our self-worth should not stem from the longevity of our code. He also puts forth this worthy nugget: In order to advance the state of the art, we have to be willing not only to try new ideas, but to retreat […]

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Nilai began as a labor of love for me. For a few months I’d spend an evening or so per week tapping out some code while watching a basketball game in my home pub. It was a lot of fun to work on and experiment with. While the day job got in the way of […]

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This is ambitious and a bit ridiculous… but it must have been a lot of fun to work on. Bold Poker. Something I’d like to see is for an app that is as well-designed as this to handle what is arguably the much more difficult part of poker – the betting. I can’t tell you […]

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Tom Tunguz on how so many big products and entire companies started out as just a hobby. He should know:  Google AdSense’s internal CRM is a Rails app called Toothpaste that I cobbled together one (late) night that now serves the global team. What is your hobby project?

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Jim Dalrymple at The Loop: We aren’t focused on pageviews, but rather posting things that interest us. Of course, the hope is that they’ll interest you as well. This is an interesting topic. And "pageview journalism" is an interesting phrase. The post that Jim links to on ZDNet describes pageview journalism as the act of […]

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The Viddler Blog: Decide who can access your dashboard, setup their own Viddler username and password, and choose what they will have access to in your account. Select who can view and/or manage certain videos or playlists, who can edit account or billing settings, and for those customers with sub-accounts, you can set permissions for […]

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Matthew Panzarino: As photos and other media become a bigger part of Twitter’s strategy in the future, it can’t have this kind of thing completely at the mercy of a service owned by a competitor. Instagram’s being able to simply yank Twitter’s ability to embed images inline on their site and apps is far too […]

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As I mentioned on Twitter, if you have an iPhone you should check out KitCam. Fantastic, well-designed, and complete camera replacement application. /via Mike Rundle on Twitter.

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Me, not even a month ago: I’ve already made a deal with myself not to buy any more products, from Apple or any other company, that do not include a retina-quality display. And. Unlike John, Eliza and I will be waiting for an iPad mini that has a Retina Display. Well, I got her a […]

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Foursquare: Break out of your weekly routine, try a new place, and don’t forget to leave a tip for your friends! The new feature is a bit buried. But when you find it, it can be pretty useful.

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Foursquare: Break out of your weekly routine, try a new place, and don’t forget to leave a tip for your friends! The new feature is a bit buried. But when you find it, it can be pretty useful.

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