I’ve been receiving quite a few terribly written introduction emails lately. Intro emails that don’t actually introduce anybody, and add more confusion than add value. This is a problem, so I wrote a quick template for my team to use, when in doubt. As with many things, open source is…
Everything changed when Dave McClure checked-in on Foursquare three blocks from our apartment… My co-founder Geoff and I began our start-up adventure with nothing more than blind ambition, a passion for tech, a friendship going back to college (when we were roomates) and $30,000 of my personal savings. I had…
Today Washington addressed growing concerns in online privacy by unveiling a framework for a Consumer Privacy Bill Of Rights. While the bill helps provide more privacy from the visible threat, aka companies you have day-to-day relationships with such as Google, Apple, Yahoo, and Microsoft, it is still largely ignoring the massive industry…
From ReadWriteWeb, 600,000 Facebook Accounts are Compromised Daily. You have an important decision when establishing your privacy settings on Facebook; do you make everything public, or do you limit it to your friends. The less information you make public, the safer you are. The more information you allow to be…
Are you a ragdoll? Do you enjoy being tossed around like one, and flayed open for the world to inspect? Well Visa and MasterCard treat you like one. The Wall St Journal broke a story uncovering the latest endeavor by the world’s two largest credit card networks; they want to…
Privacy sucks. And by sucks, we mean, the state of privacy sucks, because there’s hardly any of it. Our personal information has made its way online, and it’s being distributed everywhere. Our cell-phone numbers, political views, criminal records, shopping transactions, favorite color, you name it, its online. Back in the…