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How I Almost Lost My $500,000 Twitter Usernamed.pr
If you haven’t yet, start by reading Naoki Hiroshima’s account of how he was blackmailed into giving his Twitter account away. I read this tonight, and sadly, the story was all to familiar to me. My version also has a few implications that are far wors... -
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Automatic’s (YC S11) Smart Driving Assistant Can Now Turn Your Car Into An iBeaconblog.ycombinator.com
Automatic‘s smart driving assistant, which combines a small piece of hardware with powerful mobile apps, was designed to provide vehicles owners with new tools to understand how they can get more... - issues.apache.org
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computerweekly.com
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github.com
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en.wikipedia.org
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opendylan.org
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Post mortem - Thanks & lessons learnedelnorr.com
Pingjam is no more. As tough as it is to write after 2 years of giving our all to make it - the reality is that we’ve failed. First and foremost I want to thank Daniel and Ran, my cofounders, they ... -
UK government plans switch to open source from Microsoft Office suitetheguardian.com
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude plans to standardise on open formats to cut costs on Office suite and break 'oligopoly' of IT suppliers -
Spotify: how a busy songwriter you've never heard of makes it work for himtheguardian.com
Fred McConnell: Matt Farley writes 20 songs a day and has digitally distributed more than 14,000 in six years. We need creative outliers like him and a neutral internet to support them -
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Update on Course Accessibility for Students in Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syriablog.coursera.org
Providing access to education for everyone has always been at the core of Coursera’s mission, and it is with deep regret that we have had to make a change to our accessibility in some... -
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How I lost my $50,000 Twitter usernamethenextweb.com
Naoki Hiroshima is the creator of Cocoyon and a developer for Echofon. This post originally appeared on Naoki's Medium blog and has been republished with permission. I had a ... -
US bans students from "blacklisted" countries from getting a free educationhummusforthought.com
I'm following a Coursera course entitled "Constitutional Struggles in the Muslim World" and just received a rather odd email. All students from Syria, Sudan, Iran and Cuba will no longer be able to... -
Google is bringing Chrome apps to iOS and Android, developers start building nowthenextweb.com
Google today launched Chrome apps for Android and iOS. The company is offering an early developer preview of a toolchain based on Apache Cordova, an open-source mobile development framework ... -
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As Facebook Turns 10, Zuckerberg Wants to Change How Tech Industry Worksbits.blogs.nytimes.com
A Facebook-sponsored, open-source software group met at the San Jose Convention Center Tuesday, and the Facebook chief executive made an unscheduled appearance. Among his geeky tribe, he gave an uncharacteristically clear sense of his ambitions. And yo... -
How I lost my $50,000 Twitter usernamethenextweb.com
Naoki Hiroshima is the creator of Cocoyon and a developer for Echofon. This post originally appeared on Naoki's Medium blog and has been republished with permission. I had a ...