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| Aug 29, 2014 | Dylan's Desk: How to get people to pay for what they used to own | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Some days it feels as though the tech industry is... |
| Aug 29, 2014 | Dylan's Desk: How to get people to pay for what they used to own | Some days it feels as though the tech industry is busily finding ways to make us pay for things that used to be free, rent us things we used to own, and entice us to create things for the benefit of companies that don’t care about us.
I’ll ... |
| Mar 2, 2014 | Twitter’s Root Injustice | Contributor Contributor
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| Jan 25, 2014 | Meet 6 Entrepreneurs Who Use Tech To Change The World | This latest wave of funding for Internet startups has resulted in a slew of applications that seem to benefit the one percent: Limos via smartphone! On-demand wash-and-fold laundry! Cheeseburgers and shakes to your desk! Snail mail opened a... |
| Jul 31, 2013 | Startup Phenomenon Launches, Aims to Capture Essence of Startup Hubs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
You could call the recent interest in startup communities and entrepreneurial hubs a movement, a trend, a revolution, or possibly just a fad. But whatever it is, entrepreneurs... |
| May 12, 2013 | Why Zuckerberg’s Lobby Is Collapsing Like A House Of Cards Outside Of DC | “Power is a lot like real estate. It’s all about location, location, location.” — Frank Underwood, House of Cards
At this very moment, Mark Zuckerberg’s political lobby, FWD.us, is probably taken aback at how reviled it has become, both fro... |
| Mar 25, 2013 | Twitter Verification Has More To Do With Being Good At Twitter Than With Identity | Twitter has done a great job at keeping the whole “blue badge” verification process a mystery. If curiosity eats away at you like it does me, you’re in luck. A new video from comedians Hari and Ashok Kondabolu, featuring Anil Dash who has a... |
| Dec 20, 2012 | How to take back control of your own social networks | Click here if you’d like my weekly column sent directly to your inbox. It takes less than a minute to sign up, and you’ll get the stories before they’re published on VentureBeat.
It’s time to take back our social networks.
It’s time, becaus... |
| Dec 20, 2012 | How to take back control of your own social networks | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Dec 14, 2012 | Are The Old Enablers Becoming The New Gatekeepers? | We’ve argued, for a long time, that just railing against “middlemen” misses the point. There are always middlemen. But not all middlemen are created equal. The distinction, that we’ve discussed multiple times, is the difference between enab... |
| Nov 14, 2012 | Tech Insurgents 2012: Anil Dash | Mr. Dash
Amiable Agitator
The day after Barack Obama won his second presidential term, @FakeDorsey, a satirical Twitter account mocking serial entrepreneur Jack Dorsey’s precious worldview, tweeted, “Pretty incredible to think we made any p... |
| Sep 22, 2012 | Google Granted Pseudonym Patent (You’re Welcome. And, What Is Wrong With You) | This week Google was granted a patent for “Social computing personas for protecting identity in online social interactions”; in other words, “a pseudonym could be presented as someone’s name based upon their choices of who would see that na... |
| Sep 21, 2012 | Twitter’s Dick Costolo Wants You (And IFTTT) To Stop Blaming Twitter’s API Changes For Everything | Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, who was speaking today at the Online News Association conference and awards, was asked to respond to the controversy over Twitter’s recent API changes, particularly the news yesterday that aggregation and discovery... |
| Sep 20, 2012 | Apple maps bomb with fans | Apple Inc
(MoneyWatch) Apple (AAPL) has famously perfect pitch for what customers want. But one key new functional addition to the company's iPhone 5 -- a mapping feature designed by Apple that will replace Google Maps -- seems to have bomb... |
| Sep 20, 2012 | Booting Up: Mark Zuckerberg Hurt My Feelings Edition | Social web billionaires have resorted to playing poker with dogs for cash. (Photo: Facebook Poker Chip News)
Poor social web billionaires are losing some of their millions. [Forbes]
Read the awkward IM conversation of some guy whose feeling... |
| Sep 19, 2012 | What do you think of iOS 6? | Today, two days before iPhone 5 launches, Apple releases iOS 6. We'd like to know what you think of the software, particularly compared to the previous version. Several features are sure to cause reaction, with Facebook integration and Appl... |
| Sep 19, 2012 | Apple’s iOS 6 Maps App Falls Short In Early Reviews | Most people wont’ get their hands on an iPhone 5 until later this week, but the early reviews are in. Most critics are enamored with Apple’s latest smartphone: It’s faster, thinner, taller and, even though the camera isn’t a huge upgrade, i... |
| Aug 16, 2012 | 5 Reasons Why Web Publishing is Changing (Again) | We’re witnessing another sea change in Web publishing. From Pinterest at the beginning of this year to the launch this week of a new product from two Twitter founders, Medium, 2012 has been a year where the norms of publishing are being cha... |
| Jul 2, 2012 | In Closing Its Platform, Twitter Risks Destroying Its Community | After attaining unlikely success as an open platform, Twitter is demanding that third-party apps show Twitter’s stream the way the company wants them to. “You need to be able to see expanded Tweets,” Product Manager Michael Sippey wrote in ... |
| Apr 15, 2012 | Stop Looking For A Technical Co-founder | Editor’s Note: Alexey Komissarouk is a CS senior at the University of Pennsylvania and founder of the PennApps Hackathon. This article is based on an earlier talk to the Wharton MBA Entrepreneurship Club.
“How many of you want to start a co... |
| Apr 2, 2012 | Websites Have to Get Better | As Anil Dash pointed out this weekend, arguments about the ethics and functionality of save-for-later apps like Instapaper and Readability have reached the same fever pitch as Blogger-vs.-WordPress-vs.-Tumblr had a few years ago. It’s a mat... |
| Mar 26, 2012 | ThinkUp App Goes For-Profit In Bid To Decentralize The Social Web | ThinkUp App, the open source web application born from the non-profit Expert Labs that lets you capture, store and analyze your activity across various social networking sites, has rebooted as a commercial entity.
ThinkUp the company will b... |
| Jan 7, 2012 | Scheming Intentions | From Vannevar Bush to PageRank, the World Wide Web was built on hypertext, the notion that any morsel of information can link to any other. But that was always only a dream, and a rapidly-dissipating one of late.
Nowadays even Web links are... |
| Dec 3, 2011 | Surveillance | Your phone might be spying on you. The many cameras you pass every day can recognize your face. Facebook, despite its grudging concessions, still wants you to broadcast your personal life. “Eye in the sky” drones are already watching over b... |
| Nov 4, 2011 | Anonymous Commenters: Cowards Or Contributors? | We’ve had a few discussions here at Techdirt about anonymous commenters, coming down firmly on the side of the anonymous. Tim Geigner’s response to Anil Dash’s “If Your Website’s Full of Assholes, It’s Your Fault” turned the tables on the t... |
| Jul 26, 2011 | Anil Dash, Caterina Fake and Google+ Stand Up for Pseudonyms | The pseudonymity debate as bingo, by geekfeminism.org.
Google+ and Facebook are pushing users to use their real names everywhere on the web for their convenience and the convenience of the owners of the sites they’re browsing. The trend has... |
| Jul 25, 2011 | If Your Comment Section Is Awesome, It's Your Community's Fault | Meek Barbarian informed us that veteran blogger Anil Dash wrote a piece recently discussing websites having open and anonymous commenting on their sites. I’ll preface this with a quick anecdote. I discovered Techdirt some three years back w... |
| Jun 6, 2011 | Apple Has Finally Stuck A Dagger Into SMS. I Love It. | Now that the WWDC keynote is over and I’ve had a little bit of time to reflect, I’ve been thinking about what excited me the most from today’s announcements. The list is long, no doubt. But I think I’m going to have to go with something tha... |
| Apr 13, 2011 | Five Open Questions For Data.gov Before We #SaveTheData | Editor’s note: Guest author Kate Ray is the co-founder of Nerd Collider, a new Q&A website designed to bring a diverse group of nerds to a temporary page to solve a problem.
Data.gov is coughing blood. The budget being negotiated by Con... |
| Mar 28, 2011 | Open Angel Forum presenter Contently aims to clean up Google | There’s a good chance you’ve noticed the recent decline in the quality of Google’s search results.
While the search giant says it considers dozens of factors in its search rankings, most believe that the culprit is “content farms” like Dema... |
| Mar 9, 2011 | Stack Overflow becomes Stack Exchange | We are thrilled to announce that Stack Overflow has closed a follow-on round of financing led by Index Ventures with participation from Spark Capital and ourselves. Neil Rimer and Bijan Sabet will join the board. We will also add a new inde... |
| Nov 1, 2010 | Everyblock Launches Hyperlocal News Firehose API | Hyperlocal news aggregator Everyblock announced today that it is releasing a firehose API to integrate its data into large partner sites. Everyblock brings together real time and near real-time public records like 911 calls, restaurant heal... |
| Oct 20, 2010 | Twitter Adds First Widgets to Its Page | The recent radical redesign of the Twitter homepage integrated media like photos and video into the sidebar of every user’s page, and today the company announced that it has partnered with an outside organization to launch the first widget ... |
| Oct 4, 2010 | Why Twitter’s New CEO Will be Good for Everyone | World-changer Evan Williams has stepped down as the CEO of micromessaging social network Twitter, the company announced today, and will pass that role to serial entrepreneur and company COO Dick Costolo. (Above, photo by Joi Ito)
Williams s... |
| Sep 14, 2010 | Being "First" Versus Being "Best" | Like many people today, I read Jose Antonio Vargas’ 6,000-word profile of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The New Yorker. Unlike some, I found it neither boring nor damaging, but rather, thought-provoking. But actually, the thing that s... |
| Jun 9, 2010 | The Government And Silicon Valley: Lead, Follow Or Get Out Of The Way? | A bunch of folks have sent in Mike Arrington’s recent blog post, angrily pointing out that the federal government keeps trying to meddle in Silicon Valley, and it would be better off just keeping as far away as possible from the Valley, bec... |
| Jun 4, 2010 | 10 Incredible People Coming to the Real-Time Web Summit | The ReadWriteWeb Real-Time Web Summit in New York City is just one week away! We’ll be working hard together on understanding the future of real-time data delivery, social networking, media, industry and more. Unlike standard conferences wh... |
| May 4, 2010 | All-Star Team Backs StackOverflow to Go Beyond Programming Questions | They say raising venture capital is a young man’s game. Joel Spolsky is a very logical exception to that rule and will announce today that his question and answer site for computer programmers, StackOverflow, has raised $6 million from some... |
| Jan 22, 2010 | Twitter's Revamped SUL Has Greatly Crippled The SUL Advantage | As you probably heard, yesterday, Twitter rolled out its revamped suggested users list (SUL). The list was a source of much controversy because those on it (including the @TechCrunch account) were assured to gain thousands of followers a da... |
| Jan 6, 2010 | A Case That Has It All: Kim Kardashian, Twitter, Libel, Cookie Diets… And The New FTC Sponsorship Rules | Oh boy. Here’s a fun one. You had to expect that there would be more defamation lawsuits about Twitter following the first one involving Courtney Love, but this one is quite impressive, considering of all the twists and turns that must be f... |
| Dec 30, 2009 | Blogger makes Twitter’s A-list. What to do with 250,000 new followers? | Anil Dash is a popular technology blogger who worked at blog software maker Six Apart before becoming director of Expert Labs, a technology think tank. He proudly counted more than 18,000 followers on Twitter.
Then, in October, Dash’s Twitt... |
| Dec 17, 2009 | Server-Side Javascript: Back With a Vengeance | Last month was Javascript season in Europe, with twoconferences dedicated to the language that powers interactive web applications, and a third, which featured it heavily. If a common theme emerged, it was the buzz about Javascript leaping ... |
| Nov 18, 2009 | Expert Labs: Can an Outside Incubator Turn Government Tech-Savvy? | Long-time blogger and tech executive Anil Dash announced today at the Web 2.0 Expo New York that he’s leaving publishing software company SixApart and will head a new technology incubator called Expert Labs. Expert Labs will be dedicated to... |
| Oct 23, 2009 | Apple’s Boot Camp users must wait for Windows 7 support | reader comments 57 with 49 posters participating
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| Sep 17, 2009 | The Importance Of Enthusiasm In Any Product | A video took the web by storm today entitled “Incredible, amazing, awesome Apple.” Basically, it boils down Apple’s latest event into a series of superlatives. It’s a funny video because Apple really does have a pattern of using these types... |
| Aug 24, 2009 | Facebook Snags Open Web Community Leader Recordon | David Recordon, an outspoken young advocate for Open Source and Open Web technologies, is leaving blog software company SixApart to join Facebook.
He confirmed to us that he’ll be starting on Monday with the title Senior Open Programs Manag... |
| Aug 17, 2009 | Is The Federal Government The Most Interesting Tech Startup For 2009? | A few weeks back I got to see the federal government’s CTO, Aneesh Chopra, speak twice during his first trip to Silicon Valley. I’ve seen him speak before (before he was appointed, when he was CTO for Virginia), but I have to admit I was pr... |
| Aug 4, 2009 | Could Real Time Information Be An Unfair Advantage? | The US Securities and Exchange Commission is considering a ban on a stock market practice known as “flash trading,” where supercomputers get access to information milliseconds before other traders and can rapidly buy and sell in ways that a... |
| Jul 13, 2009 | Has Google Reached The Perception Tipping Point? | Last week, Anil Dash wrote up a thoughtful post wondering if Google had hit its “Microsoft Moment,” which I’ll loosely paraphrase as the moment when more people were afraid (or, at least, were marginally distrustful) of the company than tha... |
| May 22, 2009 | New Windows 7 logo revealed? Sweet flare! | There’s nothing to suggest this is the true and final Windows 7 logo, or even that the OS will have such a logo. But it is an official Microsoft graphic, and it’s going in a different direction from the rest of the bannery, rounded logos th... |
| May 16, 2009 | Breaking: Six Apart Announces WordPress Plugins | San Francisco based social networking and blogging company Six Apart announced today at WordCamp Mid-Atlantic that it is introducing plugins that will work on rival WordPress sites and other blogging platforms.
This is big news and akin to ... |
| Apr 23, 2008 | So You’re Launching a Platform: After Ubiquitous APIs – What’s the Next Frontier? | We’re here at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and are getting inundated with press releases about new APIs and developer platforms, many from companies we’ve never even heard of in the first place. How long ago was it that the forward-loo... |
| Oct 9, 2007 | Facebook Versus the Web | One of the knocks against Facebook is that it is a somewhat closed, proprietary platform. Here’s how the argument goes: The ultimate technology platform, in contrast, is the Web itself. It is open and ultimately will triumph over all other ... |
| Jul 15, 2007 | 4 Years Ago Today – Netscape Corporation Killed, Mozilla Foundation Born | 4 years ago today, 15 July 2003, AOL Time Warner disbanded Netscape Communications Corporation – the company that sparked the Dot Com Internet boom in the mid-90’s with its 1995 IPO. Also 4 years ago today, The Mozilla Foundation was establ... |
| Feb 8, 2007 | Web News: Pipes, Windows Live Hotmail & Mobile 6, Baidu Video Search, IBM QEDWiki | – Is that a pipe in your pocket, or are you
just pleased to see me?; as expected, geeks (myself included) are drooling over Yahoo Pipes,
the new RSS Remix service. Indeed the demand has caused some outages. I particularly
recommend the foll... |
| Feb 7, 2007 | Yahoo! Launches Pipes | It takes effort to explain the significance of a new product when the immediate benefit to consumers may not be so obvious, and the awkwardly named “pipes” from Yahoo! is no exception. The product name is taken from the world of UNIX where ... |
| Jul 13, 2006 | Really Funny Zidane Headbutt Mashup | OMG. You got to check this out. |
| Jul 11, 2006 | Read/WriteWeb Filter | –
List of Social Networking Systems (including their target audiences; very useful
resource from Sid Yadav)
– MySpace
Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites (according to Hitwise, www.myspace.com
has surpassed Yahoo! Mail as the most... |
| Sep 12, 2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 5-11 Sep 2005 | sponsored by:
This week: Microsoft’s Web 2.0 platform, Rich Clients, Acquisitions, Web 2.0 in
The Real World, Techie Post of the week – Web Development Trends for 2006. Microsoft’s Web 2.0 platform
News this week that Microsoft is releasing... |
| Aug 6, 2005 | Profile – Blinksale | Company: Blinksale
Launched: July 26, 2005
Location: Texas Overview:
Want an easier way to manage invoices? Blinksale is for you. And even if invoices aren’t a problem for you, take a minute and check out their site. It is visually and func... |
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This week: Walled Gardens, Ajax backlash, Widgetmania, Asia update, Th... |
| Feb 21, 2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 14-20 Feb 2005 | A look back at the week that was in the world of Web 2.0. This week: Google’s AutoLinks feature, IE7, NY Times buys About.com, more Big Media blogging coverage, Bloglines hacks. AutoLinks and Annotation
Ever since Google made it big, many p... |
| Nov 16, 2004 | The story of Audion | It’s a bit long, but there’s great color in here about the history of Audion, the Mac mp3 player and encoder that was eventually done under by Apple’s iTunes. Such as the deal with AOL that didn’t happen. Or when the two guys developing Aud... |
| May 16, 2004 | Reaching for the Golden Ring (or Getting Paid) | All this hullaballoo about Movable
Type’s new licensing structure is just another example of one of the Web’s
enduring issues: how to make money on the Web when users are accustomed to free
lunches. It’s not just an issue for developers eit... |
| Oct 4, 2003 | Linkblogs | I’ve been thinking about starting a linkblog, like Phil Pearson has just done. Two of my favourite daily reads are Anil Dash’s Daily Links and Erik Benson’s Morale-o-Meter. Both those guys post a daily list of external links, with a 1-2 lin... |
| Aug 25, 2003 | Ideas swirling around – on Microcontent applications | Soon I’m going to shut up and do some actual work on my Web of Ideas application. But I have to note a few interesting things that have surfaced recently on the topics of ideas and microcontent.
Firstly, Erik Benson has just released his ow... |
| Aug 19, 2003 | Sparrow Web, webOutliner and Web of Ideas | I’m doing some research into an Ideas Database web application, prompted by my recent Web of Ideas post (and its sequel). I have a Movable Type sandbox blog set up as a base for development. I’m planning on using XTM (XML Topic Maps) and/or... |
| May 15, 2003 | What became of the Browser/Editor | I’ve been re-reading Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee. As inventer of the World Wide Web in 1990 and current director of the W3C, Berners-Lee is a visionary and innovator. His current obsession, the Semantic Web, is not yet widely underst... |
