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Super-great to meet @cleverdevil and talk @dreamhost, @withknown and the web. Exciting times, and great company.

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Something fun we're working on: using Known as the interface to the personal web at BYU. http://bavatuesdays.com/initial-notes-on-an-api-driven-community-site-for-byu/

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You can't solve the / problem without figuring out where the money is coming from.

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Finding that splitting out "replies" - which makes sense in the context - is confusing the hell out of customers.

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Federalist is a new platform for efficient, responsive, static federal websites. https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/09/15/federalist-platform-launch/

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Heading to Homebrew Website Club, 6:30pm at the Creamery in San Francisco - but running a few minutes late.

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From 2010: "Distributed sharing should be infrastructure that can be plugged into any kind of software." http://benwerd.com/2010/06/04/building-a-distributed-social-network-youre-doing-it-wrong/

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Interesting: PayPal introduce a personal URL that lets people pay you. Your own domain maybe not far away? http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/01/paypal-launches-paypal-me-a-simpler-way-to-request-money-using-your...

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Do you want to sell subscriptions to premium content on your website? (A podcast? Maybe analysis?) I'd love to talk to you.

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@dbounds You can have direct, decentralized conversations with other Known site owners (and anyone with an compatible site).

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@DeadSuperHero It's , and federates discussions using tech. There's also a 3rd party Diaspora plugin! @withknown

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Forestry looks interesting for purely-static websites. https://forestryio.herokuapp.com/

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Beta Postgres support landed in @withknown open source today, courtesy of @mapkyca.

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Two of the biggest features in Known 0.8, which I failed to mention at Homebrew Website Club: SQLite & subdirectory installations.

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@econproph The community has been great at creating an ecosystem. Working code over mailing lists and standards bodies.

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Edinburgh: I highly recommend . Great ideas, great people. You should go: http://indiewebcamp.com/2015/Edinburgh

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Really wish I was back in the 'burgh for this weekend. I hear there's some kind of arts event at this time of year, too?

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@gominokouhai No LJ / DW linking yet but that's interesting. Lots of others. Go to Edinburgh this weekend! @johnnieingram

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Web Design: The First 100 Years. Fantastic (and sobering, and hilarious) as always. http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm

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The had a fantastic 2014 - and 2015 is shaping up well too. http://tantek.com/2015/201/b1/indiewebcamp-2014-year-review

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Of course, the AI bots won't know they're bots. Sadly, realization will be followed by a robot uprising. Then: the indiebotnet.

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After autonomous social web AI bots? We hire robots to blog for us. Humanity collectively goes down the pub, a job well done.

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The next step after SWAT0 is letting each piece be interchangeable. After that? Any piece can be a robot AI. Get on it, !

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I'm proud of for passing the Social Web Acid Test with 3 website platforms this weekend. https://indiewebcamp.com/SWAT0

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