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I just watched a fun interview with some of the folks from Heroku. The interviewer at one point casually gendered all Heroku users as “he”. These things stick out to me these days. It makes me think about how it must feel to be a woman and constantly be reminded that few [...]

If you were a little blue bird, with a good pile of money and a whole lot of hype, what would you buy to spice up your nest? There are so many little services being built on top of Twitter that we wouldn't be surprised to see some more of them acquired by the company soon. That would mean more features for everyday users and more usefulness for features loved by loyal early adopters.

Twitter has acquired two other companies so far, that we know of. Search engine and sentiment analysis service Summize became Twitter's own search engine ...

The biggest news in the Android world this week came from embedded systems developer BSquare, which said it’s developed a version of Flash Lite for the Google phone OS. The BSquare Flash module will be distributed to OEMs as a browser plug-in for inclusion on devices running on the ARM platform. This Flash module would make [...]
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Today marriage seems like a fleeting institution, between 30% and 60% of married people will be unfaithful during their marriage.  Just yesterday Mark Sanford, the governor of South Carolina, confessed his own adultery in a twenty minute act of self assassination.  Bill Clinton eventually admitted his own infidelity and like it or not it has [...]

Last night, Ash was doing her usual evening ritual of tweeting on @RescueAnimals while I was lazy and watched TV, when she suddenly read out loud a tweet from our friend, Michelle: “Pissed. A friend is putting his 3yo dog down because for no good reason.” – Phridae, 5:51 PM Jun 30th from TweetDeck. The Story Of course, [...]

It’s been just under 90 days since Facebook announced it has crossed the 200 million active user mark. Today, that number is somewhere around 240 million, perhaps even close to 250 million. If Facebook were a country, it would now have the 4th largest population in the world. While Facebook has been growing at around 300,00 [...]

In a recent post (see How Will Twitter Be Governed?), I pondered the potential for conflict between the aspirations of social tool developers and the communities using those tools. I have started to think about a set of principles for...