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Indie Industries?
It’s “writing hour” before the Homebrew Website Club aka Indie Web Camp Light at Mozilla in San Francisco. I’ve been wondering a lot about “Indie” stuff lately. Obviously, there’s my Indie Box Project, and Indie Web Camp, but also Indie Phone and others. “Indie” seems to be everywhere all of a sudden. Has the time…
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Indie Box crowdfunding is live
.. as of yesterday. So far, $2000 raised, which is great! P.S. Crowdfunding is streneous. Several press interviews since, lots of in-person demos, and responses to questions … but it’s fun!
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Trust Facebook, the IRS or the NSA?
If this isn’t amazing: Which of the following do you trust the most with your personal information? • The Internal Revenue Service or IRS… 35% • The National Security Agency or NSA.. 18% • Google………………………………………….. 10% • Facebook………………………………………… 5% • None (VOL.) ………………………………….. 28% • Don’t Know……………………………………… 3% • Refused………………………………………….. 1% • Total…………………………………………… 100% (source)…
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Wild idea: @mozilla $100 million open-source security project
In light of the #heartbleed bug: Mozilla could: get $5m from Google $5m from Facebook $5m from Amazon, IBM, Yahoo etc. etc. get $1m each from Fidelity, and BofA and all the banks get $1m each from the major e-commerce sites and from anybody who uses open-source code for their business and really gets hurt…
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A coffee-maker that refuses the “wrong” coffee?
Dan Gillmor writes about a Keurig coffee machine from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters that will simply not brew competitors’ coffee. Sorry, say what? The mind boggles. What’s next? Ford cars refusing to run on gas that isn’t Exxon? Microwaves refusing the heat up home-cooked food? Sidewalks refusing to let people jog on them who don’t…