Back in 2006, when the iPhone was a mere rumor, Palm CEO Ed Colligan was asked if he was worried:

List of decentralized web projects, tools, etc.

uPort is an open source software project to establish a global, unified, sovereign identity system for people, businesses, organizations, devices, and bots.

A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open.

Statebus is new version of HTTP that synchronizes state. It is backwards-compatible, easier to program with, and breaks up walled gardens.

Time is the only element in the world that is irretrievable when it’s lost. Lose money and you can make more. Lose a job and you can find another.

For my whole life, people have commented on my ability to get things done. I am a productive person, constantly tackling projects and tasks and using my time and my energy to produce results.

For years, Jacques Hopkins wanted to make money online with a flexible side gig. Now the former electrical engineer has found a niche that has become his career: teaching people to play modern songs on the piano in 21 days, all over the …

Jennifer Maravillas for HBR

Almost a year ago, I was lucky enough to be given an Amazon Echo from someone whose family wasn’t that comfortable with an always-on device listening to them, so he gave it to me to play with. My life is quite boring, listen away devices.

Over the past few months, I’ve been reminded about the difference between “can do” and “must do” and how companies often confuse the two.

Amazon is the first destination for most US consumers searching for products online. For venture-backed startups building direct-to-consumer brands, Amazon is often an afterthought. They fear ceding any level of control over the brand …

Dave Winer, “Why I Can’t/Won’t Point to Facebook Blog Posts ”:

Maxwell Holyoke-Hirsch

“There is one and only one social responsibility of business,” the economist Milton Friedman famously wrote in 1962. And that is “to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.” Those words helped establish …

Open source voice assistant. Voice control and AI for everyone. Already collecting a bunch of skills. Maybe pair it up with Home Assistant?

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Over the past few years, we’ve learned a lot about building product at Intercom.

Yu Yang | Pinterest engineer, Data

“I thought once everybody could speak freely and exchange information and ideas, the world is automatically going to be a better place,” Evan Williams says. “I was wrong about that.”

I recently spoke at a small conference we put on in Detroit. I talked about The Future of the Web, in the context of data ownership, and proprietary vs open platforms. It was the first time I’ve done a talk like this without slides of any …

Scrapy Cloud, our cloud-based web crawling platform, allows you to easily deploy crawlers and scale them on demand – without needing to worry about servers, monitoring, backups, or cron jobs. It helps developers like you turn over two …

JSON has become the developers’ choice for APIs, and that developers will often go out of their way to avoid XML. JSON is simpler to read and write, and it’s less prone to bugs. So we developed JSON Feed, a format similar to RSS and Atom …

The bestselling novel of 1961 was Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent. Millions of people read this 690-page political novel. In 2016, the big sellers were coloring books.

Welcome, Player One, to a strategy guide for the game known as life.

If you’ve read our blog, or heard us speak at conferences, you probably know by now that DNSimple is a completely distributed team. We have team members all over the world, often travelling from one location to another while still working. …

Kris Niles Product Designer at Basecamp, working remotely from the Rockies. Previously at InVision and Citrix May 4

Three years ago, I shared 10 lessons from working 4 years remotely, and today I passed another milestone while working at a remote company. After almost 7 years of working at Automattic, today I published my millionth word.

Zack Kanter

Code is central to Stripe: we build APIs, software tools, and infrastructure that are in turn used by other software engineering-driven businesses. And of course code is also central—by definition—at other software companies.

The nation has spoken: weird useless $400 wi-fi enabled juicing company Juicero is the perfect symbol of Silicon Valley.

On Sunday, Erika and I went on a training hike, to start getting into shape for the Fjallraven Classic. This year it’s over 30 miles of backpacking within 3 days, and we’re both a bit nervous about being able to keep up the pace! We went up …

I’ve completed the migration of dentedreality.com.au (along with all my other domains, excluding this one) to a new dedicated virtual server with Media Temple. Mad props to them, they’ve been great in helping me handle some pieces of the …

M.G. Siegler General Partner @ GV (formerly Google Ventures). In past lives I wrote at TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and ParisLemon. A man of few words. Except when writing. 🍻 Apr 20

Wandering the conference halls I overhear…

You probably already know why it’s so helpful to have your team write

Later this morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook is going to unveil the iPhone 7, and when he does, the familiar litany of complaints will almost certainly be aired. “This new phone is evolutionary, not revolutionary.” “Apple’s very good at making …