Ben Werdmuller

Category: Web

  • Occupy Facebook: innovation in the era of social protest

    Wired reports that a group involved in the Occupy movement is working on its own decentralized social networking platform: “I don’t want to say we’re making our own Facebook. But, we’re making our own Facebook,” said Ed Knutson, a web and mobile app developer who joined a team of activist-geeks redesigning social networking for the […]

  • The Facebook Timeline in the New York Times

    I’m quoted in the New York Times article about the global release of the Facebook Timeline: “We’ve all been dropping status updates and photos into a void,” said Ben Werdmuller, the chief technology officer at Latakoo, a video service. “We knew we were sharing this much, of course, but it’s weird to realize they’ve been […]

  • Otherwise Occupied: it’s hard to blog about app stores when police are beating people down the street

    November was a hard blogging month for me. I managed two posts: a single embedded TEDx talk (albeit one by Kaliya, who I respect greatly), and one about Thanksgiving. I just didn’t have it in me. You see, I don’t love tech on its own; I love what it can do for people. More specifically, […]

  • Giving thanks

    This year, I had my first ever American Thanksgiving with my whole nuclear family. We’ve celebrated it before in the States, but never quite managed to get the whole family round the table – and in doing so, I realized what a positive holiday it is. Being thankful for the people, things and contexts in […]