During last week’s ETech Conference, I attended Lawrence Lessig’s talk on his new project ‘Change Congress‘. TorrentFreak picked up a key point Lessig made during…
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(disclosure: I work with MySpace on their platform) Having just launched the MySpace Developer Platform, including support for OpenSocial, MySpace are holding the first of…
2 CommentsYou’d have to be under a pretty big rock not to have heard about the layoffs at Yahoo! today. Many people, from an Integrated Campaign…
6 CommentsDisclosure: I advise MySpace with the creation and execution of the developer platform So, after months of work by an amazing + passionate team (and…
18 CommentsLast week was one of the roughest I’ve experienced in my entire adult life. At the start of the week I became poisoned and had…
14 Comments(Ben Metcalfe is a founding member of the DataPortability Workgroup – which promotes and encourages the implementation of open-standards and open-access to data using technologies…
18 CommentsBit of an off-topic one link for today, but I wanted to highlight “The Airport Security Follies”, a great blog post by Patrick Smith over…
7 Comments(For those who don’t know me, I’m a British Internet professional who moved out to San Francisco 18 months ago to work with startups and…
11 CommentsIt’s with great sadness that I have just learned that Marc Orchant, who was critically ill after a heart attack, has died. My sincere condolences…
3 CommentsI’m pleased to announce I’m advising and working with super-cool video start-up Seesmic! (that’s in addition to working with MySpace too) Seesmic, for those who…
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