Author: jon
-
DRAFT: Want to make meetings better? Qworky is recruiting for a diverse open source project!
In early January, we’re going to be kicking off an open-source project to build a key component of the Qworky Meetings V1.0 product. How to attract a diverse team?
-
Demand your dotRights: Facebook gives people “more control” by revealing private their information
We are concerned that the Transition Tool and other changes actually discourage or eliminate some privacy protections that Facebook users currently employ. And we’re still waiting for Facebook to address the privacy issues concerning third party applications that were raised months ago in our petition. — Nicole Ozer of dotRights, Facebook privacy is in transition…
-
An open letter to President Obama on the Patriot Act (DRAFT)
Draft! Work in progress! Feedback welcome! The open letter will be published Monday evening, and this will be one of many posts announcing it. Final version intended for Pam’s House Blend
-
Andy Sack’s 10 lessons learned (from NWEN’s Entrepreneur University)
I’ve been live-tweeting @asackofseattle’s “lessons learned” presentation from Northwest Entrepeneur Network’s Entrepeneur University.  Here they are in one easy-to-read list: #10: it takes 5 years to create anything of value #9: focus on your 1st market longer than you think #8: beware of shiny object distraction #7 avoid the rush to nowhere #6 competition doesn’t…
-
My favorite day of the year!
Last year, I ended my post with “… what a difference a year makes.” Yeah, really. One thing’s a constant, though: spending Halloween doing something wonderful with Deborah. Yay! Happy Halloween, all!
-
Social network activism and the Patriot Act (DRAFT)
DRAFT Work in progress! Feedback welcome! Final version intended for The Seminal and Pam’s House Blend
-
National Equality March: some highlights via Twitter
Some screenshots from the #nem hashtag via Twazzup:
-
Is my brother Greg well-connected or what?
Since it’s a poem about social media, my brother Greg has version 2.0 of “I’m Pretty Well connected” up on Gottabook and The Happy Accident: I’m pretty well connected. I’ve got my Facebook page. I tweet, blog, plurk From home and work. I link, connect, engage! I Stumble, and I Ustream. My YouTube channel’s big….…
-
It’s Goa Gil’s birthday … and we’re *still* fighting for our civil liberties!
… keep your eyes open for a river, once you pass the river, the driveway will be the first right after the river. There is a Scarecrow on the mailbox at the edge of the driveway. Follow the driveway to your destiny 🙂 — from the direction to Goa Gil’s birthday party Stop me if…
-
Can Skittles help fix the PATRIOT Act and FISA? (DRAFT!)
DRAFT! Final version published on The Seminal.
-
Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2010: why should people care?
One of our goals for the 2010 Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference is to reach out to a broader and more diverse community. Our upcoming “save the date” announcement is the first good opportunity for this. Getting some attention on Twitter, blogs, and email lists can help raise awareness of “the best computer conference you’ve…
-
Ask @bing to create grants for nonprofit advertising on their site (DRAFT)
Update, September 1: Microsoft responded. More here. Draft! Work in progress! Feedback welcome!
-
Notes from underground: five years later (Space Tribe at Geomagnetic.tv’s Psyonesis)
As the sample Olli Wisdom started his set with phrased it, “To infinity – and beyond!” [At the set’s climax] a song built around the guitar part from Dire Straits “Money for Nothing” (with a minor change in the only lyric: “I want my LSD”) had the whole crowd playing air guitar. “You gotta be…
-
Help us choose Qworky’s logo!
Which of the three options for the Qworky logo would you be most likely to try out yourself? Which would you be most likely to recommend to a friend? Please help us out by taking this 60 second survey! Thanks, jon PS: and thanks to Joanne as well for the great work on logo design!
-
Qworky: the adventure begins!
Welcome to Qworky! Pardon our construction, we’re busy designing software to revolutionize the way people work together. Software doesn’t have to suck. Instead, it should fit in smoothly with your work life — and make you more efficient so that you can get your weekends back. By listening to you and focusing on your needs…