@hjarche @amyburvall I actually think I may have figured it out, but that's something for later ;)
@hjarche @amyburvall I do too. Strongly, particularly in education. The trick is finding a way to do it sustainably.
@hjarche Only six months after we first open sourced it! (And 10 months after launch.) That's really cool :) @amyburvall
@hjarche @amyburvall Capital and marketing are core to business. We were (and I still tend to be) naïvely idealistic to our detriment.
@amyburvall @hjarche My big regret is the hosted service. We were beating Ning - but they had $100m. We should have raised.
@hjarche It powers the intranet for at least three national governments - I'm okay with how it did ;)
True story. I mention this only to warn you that if you pinch me for not wearing green today, I will fight you.
I'm looking forward to putting my homebot on my business card.
The web is about voices, not technologies. The most important thing is that one size doesn't fit all, and everyone can be heard.
We still talk about home*pages*, but that forces form onto an idea. Let's talk about homes and identities. Apps, services and destinations.
@digidave Sounds like a Snapchat story waiting to happen to me. Irony is you could probably make bank.
The only revolution we need is one where people start caring about each other again.
Nobody should have to work two jobs just to survive. Nobody should go into debt because of illness. We need to take care of each other.
I met a Lyft driver from Stockton on Friday who drives 2 hrs to work all night in Oakland so she can support her family, on top of her job.
You fight vampires with garlic. You fight fascists with prosperity and meaningful jobs for the middle and working class.
The way to defeat opportunists like Trump is to make sure people aren't desperate enough to vote for him in the first place.
Trump is an aftershock of the financial crisis. The effects could have been dampened with real social infrastructure and protections.
Trump's racist scapegoating of immigrants is absolutely a descendant of Hitler placing blame for poverty on the Jewish population.
Trump isn't Hitler. But he could be. And not providing infrastructure for the millions of people in poverty leaves that door wide open.
Imagine living in poverty and not having your existence even acknowledged by the government in public. I would be furious.
America's population of people living in actual poverty with little social support, who don't feel listened to, is bait for a demagogue.
Comparing Trump to Hitler does a disservice to the 12 million+ people who died as a result of that man's regime.
In the aftermath of the Treaty of Versailles, and a global economic crunch, a German politician attracted support using a similar approach.
@intelekshual Most aren't, of course. But many people are desperate, and the stats do indicate it is a factor.
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