Month: March 2012
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ElggCamp San Francisco
A long time (almost three years) ago now, I worked on an open source project called Elgg, which I also co-founded. It was vastly more popular than we had anticipated – from a small start in education, the community pulled it in all kinds of amazing directions – but after almost six years working on […]
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Let’s meet at SXSW
It’s that time of year again: I’ll be at the SXSW Interactive festival next week. From March 12th through the 15th, latakoo will be on stand #308, talking about what we’re doing – and for much of the time, so will I. Come say hi! Of course, there’s far more to SXSW than the trade […]
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A geek’s guide to writing
I’ve had this idea for a story for years. We live in a world where truth is curated for us, everything we do can be tracked and used to infer things about what we’re going to do next, and identity is defined by what we broadcast. What happens when we no longer fit into the […]
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10 rules for startups
The user isn’t the product being sold. The user is the customer. Startups become big by empowering their customers with great products and services that allow them to do things that were previously difficult or impossible. A company is a group of people with a shared goal. Everyone deserves a chance to make progress on […]