Twitter’s new geolocation facilities are all the rage. Actually, most users don’t know about them yet, but they should soon. And by “facilities”, I mean just a couple fields in your XML/JSON that’s fed through the API to/from a few clients. Most Twitter clients don’t yet support this new geolocation, but they may come around… [...]
LinkedIn appears to have gained an enormous user base. The majority of people I’ve worked with are already there. It took a few people prodding me to sign up before I bought into the idea. But I was still skeptical. What was the point of it? I couldn’t quite figure out what problem LinkedIn was [...]
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I flew down to SFO last weekend to attend Startup School. Lots of energy in Kresge and it was pretty easy to start talking to people. I even met a few fellow Portlanders. I was really looking forward to hearing fresh ideas from some great innovators of our day. Turns out that these guys already [...]
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