Ben Werdmuller

Ben Werdmuller

  • Silos, the open web, and selfdogfooding

    Tantek Çelik has written an important post about silos vs an open, social web: The answer is not to not “only [be] relevant to geeks”, but rather, reframe it as a positive, and be relevant to yourself. That is, design, architect, create, and build for yourself first, others second. If you’re not willing to run…

  • Google Reader is dead

    Google Reader was a tentpole of the web I wanted: open, with full freedom of expression that wasn’t tethered to the platform you happened to choose to use. That web is now, largely, gone. Reader will be discontinued this spring. In the same announcement, Google are talking about killing the standardized CalDAV API in favor…

  • Punching above your weight

    I wrote about doing great work at a small startup like latakoo over on Quora: This, for me, is the essence of a small startup. From that hunger to build something that solves a problem for people, to the fact that everyone is doing a little bit of everything – whatever needs to be done,…

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