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Attracting a crowd is much easier than keeping them. The most important component to a successful crowdsourcing effort is a vibrant, committed community and understanding what motivates people to contribute in the first place. People ned to feel rewarded for their efforts.

“There is nothing more frustrating in life than hearing someone speak a language you don’t speak” – Noah Feldman

As Ben Thompson notes in The Web’s Missing Interoperability, interoperability was actually one of the core benefits mentioned at the start of the last wave of consumer tech, what many refer to as Web2.0. But we didn’t get interoperability from the big Web2 giants of Facebook, Twitter, and the like. We got almost the exact opposite — business models... See more

One of the most gratifying aspects of web design and development is the lateral thinking involved. There is rarely ever an objective and singular correct   way to go about achieving something. You have to consider all the different contexts a user will encounter on your site, how you want them to interact with it, what you want to elicit in t

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- Recommendations from other humans are as good, if not better, than algorithmic suggestions

In today’s world, writing is one of the highest leverage things a human can do

This raises broader questions about the tech ecosystem and its investment model. I’ve been making the case for a long time that the natural endpoint is likely very large platforms and Aggregators on one-side, and a flourishing ecosystem focused on niches on the other, but implicit in the latter is that venture capital is not simply unncessary, it i... See more

0% of US parents want to homeschool their children but only 3% do.