Author: jon
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What Diaspora (and everybody else) can learn from Google+ (DRAFT)
DRAFT! WORK IN PROGRESS! FEEDBACK WELCOME!
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Notes from Underground: Interim
It had been a week of solid work so by the time the weekend came around we were both more than ready for a break. Friday night was 80s night at The Atrium … the champagne flowed freely and the hits just kept on coming, everything from Head over Heels to Two of Hearts (!),…
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Suggestions from Last Year’s Hackathon Winner (part 7 of TechCrunch, Disrupted)
J’aime Ohm won the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon as a solo hacker with a personal safety iPhone app. WiseDame’s tag line is “making safe living easier, one application release at a timeâ€. It takes basic safety practices – letting friends or family know what time you expect to be home, leaving a note about your plans…
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Notes from Underground: Intention and Transition
After last Saturday’s inflection point, the week was filled with writing, outlining, and business modeling. Oh and Google+ of course.  Anxiously masculinity under threat, structural oppression, and nymwars … no shortage of interesting topics! In a depressing kind of way, that is. So once again I was ready for the weekend. Friday night, we dropped…
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Top 15 Privacy Panels for SXSW — Don’t Delay! Vote Today! (UPDATED — deadline tomorrow!)
We’re heading into the last few days of public voting for SXSW 2012 proposals. Votes and comments count for about 30% of the decision-making process, and so advocating for the panels you want to see is important. The deadline is Friday, September 2.  So please vote, comment, and share this link with your friends!…
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Notes from Underground: Darkness and Inflection
“When a corporation acquires great power, the use — or misuse — of that power is everything. Will it be used for the greater good, or for selfish and destructive means? Now this is a question we must all ask ourselves. Why? Because we are Google.” —Evolution (nymwars remix), Skyloops, remixed by anonymous It was…
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Notes from Underground: Inoculation
Once again it had been a long week. Friday afternoon we went out to happy hour, then took a nap and danced for a few hours at Gibbous. And lucky us: Saturday night, DJ Anomaly was back at the Atrium for Inoculation. w00t! Like a snake that simply uncoils itself form its own not, passion…
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A tale of two searches: Google+ and Diversity, part 4
cross-posted on Google+ and Dreamwidth Check out the previous posts in the series: A Work in Progress, Why it matters, and #nymwars! Here’s a good example of how Google+ is already influencing search results. I’ve got screenshots below for two searches on nymwars, one when I’m logged into G+ and the other when I’m not…
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Notes from Underground: Perseids and Assimilation
How time flies when you’re having fun! After another quick trip to the Bay Area for some wine tasting in Sonoma, we’re back in Seattle for the full moon, meteor showers, and back-to-back DJ Anomaly shows at The Atrium. w00t! Professionally, once again a lot’s happened since my last post on The Union of Bliss…
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Nymwars! Part 3 of Google+ and Diversity
Keep the pseudonyms and lose the assholes. — Kathy Sierra The battle over whether Google gets to police what names people can call themselves rages on. Ten days after Google VP Bradley Horowitz promised process changes, accounts still keep getting deleted without notice. And while Facebook Director of Products Blake Ross got his account reactivated…
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Notes from Underground: The Union of Bliss and Emptiness
A lot’s happened since Anomalous: Seattle Startup Weekend, a friend’s wedding, Pink Saturday and Pride in San Francisco (with sets by Liam Shy and Psysas!), Death Guild, Spook at Synchronize, Strangelove, the SF Mime Troupe in Dolores Park on the Fourth of July … after 10 days in San Francisco, we drove back to Seattle…
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Weekend Projects: my Seattle Startup Weekend pitch
Seattle Startup Weekend starts tomorrow, and right now I really wish I had a good checklist for what I should be doing to prepare and what I should bring. Power supplies, internet connectivity in case wireless goes down, post-it notes, my GitHub and WuFoo passwords, juice … what am I forgetting? Oh yeah, that’s right,…