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Live notes and essays
Thinking Digital Startup Competition 2022-05-18
Herb Kim: Welcome to the 9th startup competition - we used to say Annual, but that's not quite right any more. 12 startups get to pitch for 3 minutes each
Twitter Edits You 2022-04-06
With all the fuss about Twitter’s promised edit button, and how they might design it, we’re missing a disturbing development — Twitter is using its embedded javascript to edit other people’s sites.
Google I/O Chrome Follow session 2021-05-19
Nick Krasney: We want to build out the next 20 years for RSS on the open web
Johnson is not Jobs 2021-05-02
Johnson, by all reports, will do anything to put off making a decision; no-one who worked for Steve Jobs was left guessing about what he thought.
Replies to Silos only at my own site 2020-12-10
Can we POSSE to twitter with just a URL?
IndieWeb Camp London Notes 2020-03-15
Suze Shardlow: I found a lot more motivation to do this today with having other people doing it too, and thank you to @ohhelloana, @cheukting_ho and @calum_ryan for organising this very well.
Homebrew Website Club Teesside Notes 2018-08-07
good practice would be to always ping archive.org to stash pages when you link to them. This is something I do at https://mention.tech when sending webmentions - I archive both the links involved too.
Public Sevice Internet notes 2018-10-23
Solana Larsen: I'm worried about the global dystopian surveillance society, and anyone who reads the newspaper can see this now - free speech, freedom of movement everything is at risk
Mapcamp notes 2018-10-03
Simon Wardley: I would love for people to find better ways of mapping - mine are primitive and I made them creative commons so someone else can fix them.
XOXO notes 2018-09-09
jonny sun: I've been thinking about tweets as things that create conversation spaces - you create a little micro community in the replies to a tweet
Teacamp: Jacqui Taylor on GDPR 2018-06-07
Dr Jacqui Taylor: GDPR is about building our web world with privacy at the core - so citizens can trust us
Thinking Digital 2018-05-17
Sarah Wiseman: when my friend finally bought her house, I responded with 🎏🎏🎏carp streamers - I then realised that this was only a celebratory emoji for me and my sister. Just as 2 people can listen to the same audio clip and one hear Yanny and the other Laurel, they can look at the same emoji and see a different meaning.
Future Blockchain Summit Dubai 2018-05-03
Jamie Burke: The hedge funds will come in and crash the crypto token market. All the senior partners are waiting on the sidelines to enter this market, but there is not enough liquidity for them - they will break the market when they come in.
Future Blockchain Summit Dubai 2018-05-02
Wesam Lootah: Yes, blockchain was not invented in Dubai, Satoshi Nakomoto is not a Dubai citizen. We want to be the blockchain capital of the world. If you have spent any time in Dubai over the last 10 years you can see that we make big promises and we deliver
Jeremy Silver and Jeremy Bailenson on 'Experience on Demand' 2018-04-26
Jeremy Bailenson: Start with a problem that needs to be solved, if VR or AR helps to solve it, great. Don't use the technology for the sake of it
Future Social Media - Digital Catapult 2018-04-17
Mark Little: When I went to work at twitter I started to see the antithesis further - big platforms are a contradiction. We are rows of corn to be harvested by big companies into data and sold to advertisers. So we need synthesis - what do we do? Do we leave it to platforms or governments to fix this?
GDPR and Media Innovation - Digital Catapult 2018-03-15
Kathryn Geels: Half of web users are faking their data due to security fears. Lawyers have told me that anyone who says they are 100% GDPR compliant is either lying or doesn't understand the regulations
Internet of Agreements 2 - Digital Catapult 2018-02-23
Michael Mainelli: Anyone who says they they are giving you database write for $35 - they are an idiot
Homebrew Website Club London 2018-01-24
We are celebrating one million webmentions - and @calumn_ryan brought cupcakes
More news this week - WebSub (formerly known as PubSubHubbub) is a w3c REC and IndieAuth is a w3c NOTE
Decaying Silos as dead malls 2018-01-20
Every Silo has it's own custom preview markup, but Microformats make you smile.
Creative Investment Forum 2017-11-07
Phil Parker: The idea today is to start a conversation about the key problems of the creative industries. Over 90% of the creative industry is freelancers, and access to finance is a limiting factor for them.
Homebrew Website Club London notes 2017-10-18
Grigor : I haven't heard of indieweb before - I understand that you don't want to be bound to a specific platform and I like it
Twitter’s Nazi Filter 2017-10-13
It's not something that Twitter advertise, but they do have a built-in Nazi-blocking filter.
Long Finance notes 2017-07-17
Michael Mainelli: I have never seen a new technology take out an existing technology - even landlines are taking their time to go. The role of governance is to help us through these transitions of technology
Homebrew Website Club London notes 2017-07-12
Calum Le Tour 🚴🏻: This is the 1st anniversary of Homebrew Website Club London
OpenTech 2017-05-13
Jeni Tennison: Sam asked me to round out the day with vision things, look at the future, be optimistic
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" - Eleanor Roosevelt
Byte The Future 2017-05-12
Jonathan Rivers: Innovation Theater - all the fancy gadgets in the lab to look cool - a MS surface table, a 3d printer for some reason. There is more innovation in a stack of post-its than in a room full of fancy gadgets
Newspaper firms must face heavy fines over extremist content – MPs 2017-05-01
An inquiry by the Commons home affairs committee condemns Newspaper companies for failing to tackle hate speech.
Mastodon, Twitter and publics 2017-04-24
Long ago, I wrote about the theory of social sites, with the then-young Twitter as the exemplar. As Mastodon, GnuSocial and other federated sites have caught some attention recently, I thought I'd revisit these theories.
Homebrew Website Club SF notes 2017-02-22
EJ Harkness: The amazing thing about the internet is that it is everything - no-one cares whether it is MIT or oxford or my brain. If we have some stable means of establishing identity we can compare your history of what you say
Microservices Summit 2017-01-31
Rafi Schloming: Start with the people and think how to divide up the work first, let that lead to the technical perspective
Day 4: Broke my Known site #100daysOfIndieWeb 2017-01-26 23:42-0800
I think I extended the meaning of Tantek's js;dr tonight anyway.
Homebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-01-11
#ThatTechGirl: I don't have a homebrew site, but I did a 4 hour hackathon on a new website last night— I built a birthday website for a friend of mine, and he hasn't seen it yet - it's at http://granisoncrawford.com/
Homebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-12-28
Stacey DePolo: is there a non-silo'd option for posting video or audio?
Homebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-12-14
Kevin Marks : a great example of service workers is @adactio's https://resilientwebdesign.com that caches pages so you can read on a plane
Stacey DePolo: if I'm someone who frequently travels on airplanes I can read stuff offline without paying for wifi?
Homebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-11-30
Aza Raskin: we are working on "the chatternet" - the internet of conversation
Next Economy notes 2016-10-11
Paul English: when the human agent overrides the AI, that's when the AI learning kicks in
Next Economy notes 2016-10-10
Steven Levy: the rap on these deep learning systems is that they are black boxes - you don't know what they are doing
Homebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-10-05
Jean M Russell: how do you make pooping OK? Unicorns and soft serve
I don't have code to share - I have help I need
Distributed verification 2016-09-22
Now, we already have the rel="me" standard for linking between different sites to show that you own them both. Its been around for 13 years, and is widely adopted. How about we make it into a badge?
Homebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-09-21
Ben Werdmüller: the interface on medium is designed to encourage longer responses, and the out-of-network ones are hidden by default
Homebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-09-14
Kevin Marks: Last week I showed rel-me detection on my website - this week I have a chrome plug-in at j.mp/indieme
Homebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-09-07
Christina Warren:I wouldn't put a brand in my twitter handle - I know better
Homebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-08-24
Dan Gillmor: when I teach journalists, I get them to buy a domain, set up their own hosting and create a blog or website
Homebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-08-10
Kevin Marks: how blogging worked in 2000 we'd click through our blogroll each morning and see our friends stories. That's snapchat
Homebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-07-27
Known: teach.kqed.org is a community space powered by Known, and there are more coming
Homebrew Website Club SF notes 2016-07-13
Joe Nelson: Email I affectionately call the “cockroach of the internet,” because it is older than the web yet we still use it
Homebrew Website Club notes 2016-06-29
Dmitri Shuralyov: I discovered indieweb a week ago, and the values and motivations were thinking along the same lines. I found indieweb through someone's personal website.
Decentralized Web Summit 2016-06-09
Dan Gillmor: it's about more than a decentralized web, but about control too - net neutrality may be a short term victory
Decentralized Web Summit 2016-06-08
Tim Berners-Lee: Incremental change and only adding the pieces that we needed was key. It was never clear that the web would take off, but it did
Decentralized Web Summit 2016-06-07
Mitchell Baker: If we can keep Immediate Open Universal Agency then the web remains decentralized
IndieWeb Summit Demos 2016-06-05
Aaron: we're going to demo what we've done this weekend at #indiewebsummit - 5 minutes each
IndieWeb Summit notes 2016-06-04
Tantek: we encourage everyone to share what they have built whether on our wiki or a open source code on github or wherever
Homebrew Website Club notes 2016-06-01
Tantek Çelik:Webmention is now a Candidate Recommendation for w3c which is kind of a big deal we incubated and developed webmention in the indieweb community and brought it over to the SocialWG at w3c