Monthly Archives: June 2008

The Flickr Era

I’ve been wondering how the Flickr era was going to close for a while, but the resignation letter couldn’t have been a more fitting ending to the story. Looking back, I think there were a lot of smart things that … Continue reading

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London hackers are back

It seems very strange blogging about this topic from my desk here in London. If there’s one constant in the Internet, it is change. But one thing that is still the same a year on — hacking is alive and … Continue reading

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O’Reilly prescient on the DataPortability issue

I just found this nugget while scanning for a quote to use from Tim O’Reilly’s 2005 article “What is Web 2.0“: “Much as the rise of proprietary software led to the Free Software movement, we expect the rise of proprietary … Continue reading

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Local community data reporting

EveryBlock has taken a very data intensive look at local news reporting. As founder Adrain Holovaty explains: “An overall goal of EveryBlock is to point you to news near your block. We’ve been working hard to do a good job … Continue reading

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