We are excited to see Alex and the team at Common Fabric come out of stealth and thrilled to support their effort to put people back in the center of personal computing
1/ It’s time to share more about what we’ve been working on: @common_fabric is a social computing lab building a medium for software that revolves around people, not apps. commonfabric.com
Memory needs a rebel alliance
Last week we wrote about the risks of centralizing our digital memory. Today's follow-up blog explores the ecosystem of startups building a different future where you control your own data and memory
@usv@buildexante@zweinberg + matt hawes
📣 Announcing: HackFS 💻 a 30 day virtual hackathon aimed at building the foundation of the decentralized web. Devs will build dapps, games, dev tools, DeFi tools, and other hacks that use decentralized storage. Hosted by @ETHGlobal and @ProtocolLabs. hackfs.com
I used to think that Web3 infrastructure would be decentralized compute, storage, and communication. Physical infrastructure will be needed but if we don't get identity and incentives right - it wont matter. Danny from 3Box lays out the identity challenge here...
Identity has been an elusive challenge in Web3.
We wrote Demystifying Digital Identity to make the often-confusing topic clearer and more practical: what is ID, what to beware of, what to insist on, & what simple steps to take for your app or service
medium.com/p/6ec413b129ac
We've put up DuckDuckGo billboards across the US, UK, SE, NL, BE, DK (with DE, FR & ES to come soon). If you spot a 🦆 in your community, we'd love to see it!
Here's a map of all of our live locations (subject to change): duckduckgo.com/billboards
Personalization is something you do for someone, targeting is something you do to someone - why doesn't the industry that spins for a living come up with a better word
Cloudflare has not only been quietly powering much of the Internet, it has been quietly building one of the strongest and deepest teams out there businessinsider.com/cloudfla…
Net Neutrality is not just about the freedom to innovate, it is ultimate about the freedom to choose your own sources of information. Startups understand this intuitively engine.is/news/category/star…