It's interesting that this article didn't mention Gopher, which was developed at the University of Minnesota. Jean Amour Polly would have definitely known about it, as back then the Gopher Team was all about creating Digital Libraries.
And Mark McCahill was a ardent Windsurfer, which resulted in this shirt, designed by his partner Wendy Jedeckila, way back in 1991!
If you look up her guide on project Gutenberg, there are references to Gopher. It's nostalgic to see "WorldWideWeb" getting a brief mention as as another service that you can try out.
Quick plug for one of my favorite podcasts right now that had an episode with the Keyboardio creator and their current struggle with the chip shortage[0]. Highly recommended listening!
Hi, I'm Jesse. I'm 1/2 of Keyboardio. We have, indeed, been through some stuff, but don't let that scare you off of hardware. We're currently in manufacturing for our third keyboard product.
We're generally pretty happy to chat with first-time hardware founders. Feel free to drop me a note at jesse@keyboard.io.
Which sort of contributions would you like to copy from Google Maps to OSM?
If you personally surveyed these places you can go to OpenStreetMap.org, sign in and then you can add your changes - OSM may already have the info so a straight import wouldn't be possible.
Make sure not to copy any of Google's details to OSM that you didn't personally survey as that would violate copyright.
Please reach out to me if you'd like a hand with getting started mapping on OSM :)
Google map reviews is the only thing keeping me from OSM based maps. I love to explore, take photos and review places. OsmAnd has some review functionality but it's very barebones unfortunately.
hi5 (RIP) was originally a dating site and Pivoted to a Social Network.
Most profiles fake? I can say for sure that's not true. I maintained Postgres/Memcache/Graph DBs and the write load was real.
That said hi5 did engage in address book scraping and other dark patterns that you'd rather not see these days.
Fun fact: hi5 had a featured photos/profiles section based on popularity. Folks that ended up there deleted their account by 5x or more due to the unwanted attention their 'popular' photos garnered....
So many thoughts about OpenSocial and the reference implementation, Shindig. I have it thank for my time at hi5, LinkedIn and then Google.
Some little known facts about OpenSocial
- Hangouts Apps (remember those?) were based on OpenSocial containers.
- OpenSocial powered the LinkedIn Apps Platform and Labs for a number of years. The team built Rails and Node apps and deployed on Joyent.
- Eric Schmidt gave a pep talk to the working group pre-launch and mentioned about how open always wins in the end...
- MySpace was concerned about the attack surface of 3p apps running in iframes. They toyed with the idea of requiring a webkit browser plugin to run apps (!). It did lead to Caja* as a project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_project
- The work on OpenSocial led in small part to the Activity Streams spec which led to ActivityPub and thus the latest Fediverse protocols. I like to think of OpenSocial as dead, but a good organ donor.
Amusingly a lot of the concerns about embedding applications in other web applications have finally been mostly covered by the browsers adding the capability to sandbox iframes. We used Caja at Yahoo but it was a nightmare at the time.
Always enjoyed working with you both, and sitting on panels teaching. Small world, I'm back working with Dave Recordon again.
I'd love for all the hard work that was left on the table to get resurrected, I continued to work in Caja-style JS sandboxing for a few years after OpenSocial.
This is a lot of history crammed into an hour. Goes from the early code-breaking work and the development of Drum Memory at Engineering Research Associates.
ERA merged with Sperry/Univac/Remington and then begat Control Data, Cray, Unisys and many others.
Also tune in for some history of the Oregon Trail by Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) and how that ties into the rise of Internet Gopher.
Bandcamp is good if you know what you want and they do pay out really, really well.
If you want a streaming service more like Spotify you might also check out Resonate Cooperative https://resonate.is/ which has a stream-to-own model.
Discovering new music is low cost, repeated listens double until the ninth, upon which you own the track outright. You can then download or stream that track for free.
Still ramping up but I'm excited about their prospects.
If you want some more depth to the Californian Ideology critique consider watching the Adam Curtis documentary "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace."
They seem to deal with this problem by letting you fund a donation account and then disburse funds on a periodic basis. This is also similar to donor advised funds so I'm not sure why Patreon is doing this when other alternatives are available.
I just cancelled my two pledges on Patreon, and migrated them to Liberapay.
The process was surprisingly smooth and easy. We'll see how it works on the long run, but for now Liberapay looks like an excellent alternative. (Also they don't take automatic fees for their own finances; tip is on a voluntary basis).
And Mark McCahill was a ardent Windsurfer, which resulted in this shirt, designed by his partner Wendy Jedeckila, way back in 1991!
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10274778...