Ben Werdmuller

Category: Web

  • Building software for people

    Like most of his posts, Tony Stubblebine’s piece on experiments in software services struck a chord with me: I want to build useful products. I’m glad I know that about myself. Some programmers want to solve hard problems. That’s not a priority for me. Some programmers want the internals of their code to be beautiful.…

  • Launch48 Edinburgh: an inspiring start

    I was invited to attend Launch48 Edinburgh as both a speaker and a mentor, and can’t imagine a more inspiring way to spend a weekend. My talk – on creating a startup from scratch with no budget and a two-person team, and the lessons I’ve taken away from that experience – was recorded, and I’ll…

  • The future we deserve

    Opening the floodgates: […] It would be easy to argue that this change is restricted to post-scarcity items: products that can be encapsulated digitally and copied an infinite number of times. However, this is not the case. In the summer of 2010, the New York State legislature – heavily sponsored by the hotel industry –…

  • Twitter turns a corner

    Dave Winer has weighed in on Twitter’s revamped site announcement, in which it announced 16 media partners whose content would be displayed within the Twitter interface when linked to: For the first few years of Twitter encouraged guys like me to write little hack jobs to make it do things they didn’t have time to…