I have been reading the coverage of Mahalo, Jason Calacanis’s latest project, with much interest. One startup I really like is Top 10 Sources, and Mahalo has a lot of the elements that Top 10 Sources gets right (domain experts curating links), plus some cool user generated tools too to suppliment the curators.
In general, [...]

reCAPTCHA is the latest project from Luis von Ahn the inventor of the CAPTCHA and founder of the highly addictive ESP Game. The underlying principle to all of Luis con Ahn’s work is that perhaps the smartest computer is one that is powered by the crowdsourced intelligence of humans. Typically, Luis leverages games in [...]

Mainstream computer users are getting better at using and creating social media. More and more people are figuring out Flickr (enough to kill off Y! Photos). Wikis are becoming more like Microsoft Word and less like VI in terms of usability.
This progress is beneficial for social media companies because it is a [...]

On Friday afternoon I asked Gabe Rivera (Founder of Memeorandum) for a small feature request. Sunday morning at 3:25 am, my desired feature was public on Techmeme. That’s an amazingly quick dev cycle for such a heavily-trafficked web service. I’m impressed.
I know Gabe is the only guy behind the wheel at Memeorandum, [...]

Jotspot has three exposed email resources for support in their help documentation:

support@jot.com
jotspotsupport@google.com
jim@jot.com

I have emailed all three of these addresses at least once over the past few months. I’ve sent a total of 5 cries for help dating back to March 21st. I have not received a single response.
Jotspot support doesn’t suck: to suck [...]

This is really incredible…. like, a little TOO incredible to be believable (like the 2004 Red Sox ALCS comeback). It’s the story of a person squatting at Stanford that faked being a student for 8 months. She “took” classes. She studied for “exams” (which were not graded because she wasn’t registered). [...]

This is a total 180… I always thought of Facebook as this intentionally closed off system designed to lock out third-party widgets in order to preserve the consistency of the user experience.
Not anymore, according to TechCrunch, Facebook is now ready to become the uber-platform with unprecedented access via a remarkably open developers’ API:
The API would [...]

I shot off a quick tweet yesterday asking if anyone had seen people using Twitter as a platform for fiction. Greg Cohn responded:
@ andrewparker: http://twitter.com/zombieattack been meaning to blog it!
I’m beating Greg to blogging it ;)
I really dig this. It’s a piece of fiction that is being written one Twitter message at a [...]