I co-founded Elgg and have moved on to make other neat web things. For my main blog, see benwerd.com. These are things I've found on my travels.
Texas scientists wrote a report detailing the state of the environment in Galveston Bay. Rick Perry-appointed officials from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality went through the report and…
Derek Slater is my former colleague at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, now serving as a policy analyst at Google. He’s just published a barn-burning essay called “#noimnotgoingtolawschool:…
Having recently conducted a security audit of several free/open source software programs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Chris Palmer and Dan Auerbach have published some guidelines for…
Yesterday there was speculation that Zuck was going to get it. But then they gave it to three women who as far as I know don’t even have a startup or even an iPhone app. I tried…
Philosophically, the open source concept borrows some selected elements from socialism. It upholds a notion of the “common good,” it eschews the appearance of authority or hierarchy, and it…
One of the things about working with data at 37signals is that I end up interacting with a lot of different APIs—I’ve used at least ten third-party APIs in the last few months, as well as all of our…
I don’t mean to overhype this, but frankly I don’t think it would be possible to overhype something as huge and profound as what Facebook introduced yesterday, at least from what I gather…
Last week in Anaheim, in amongst the crowd of developers at Microsoft’s Build 2011 conference assimilating the news about Windows 8, was a team from a London, U.K.-based company called YoYo…
Smile, you’re on camera! Wi-Fi video camera company Dropcam raised $5 million in its first round of funding today led by storied venture firm Accel Partners and Google+ vice president…
