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Michael Wolf, the former president of MTV, and Anil Dash, one of the big brains behind Six Apart, teamed up a couple years ago to form a consulting firm called Activate. To get advice from these guys is ordinarily very expensive (and probably worth the m

The other day, I tried out Unroll.me, a clever new service that reads your inbox to let you unsubscribe from mailing lists and other unwanted e-mail flotsam with a single click. As I was about to connect my Gmail account, my finger hovered over the Grant

The other day, I tried out Unroll.me, a clever new service that reads your inbox to let you unsubscribe from mailing lists and other unwanted e-mail flotsam with a single click. As I was about to connect my Gmail account, my finger hovered over the “Gran

Data can now be synthesized into a water-soluble powder and absorbed directly into the cranial bloodstream, providing users wit

Google+ caught some flak for its strict real-names policy when it launched. Users who tried to sign up under their hip web handles had their profiles shut down; when that caused an uproar, Google+ said it would give users four days of warning. Locally, b

This week, many of the web's most popular sites shuttered their doors in protest of SOPA and PIPA, the pair of bills that had been winding their way through congress with the stated intent of fighting piracy and the unfortunate side effect of fundamental

We’ve already reported on Wikipedia’s founder Jimmy Wales announcing that the site will be going dark, effectively closing up for business, for 24 hours on Wednesday in protest of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act). Well, after being goaded about whether Twit

Wael Abbas himself to the crowd at Microsoft’s Social Media Symposium saying, “I’m just a blogger.” Yeah, and Shirky’s just some bald dude. Here’s my attempt to transcribe Wael’s talk. I want to talk about social media in Egypt from 2004 through the revo

Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter all provide streams of content – the content can either be created on the service or the content can be posted automatically from outside sources – typically either RSS feeds or from one of these services to another. Both F

Sarah Barmak special to the star Does the Internet have a problem telling real from fake? Some Twitter users might be moved to think so after this week, when the official account on the social network of Wendi Deng, wife of News International mogul Ruper

From Vannevar Bush to PageRank, the World Wide Web was built on hypertext, the notion that any morsel of information can link to any other. But that was always only a dream, and a rapidly-dissipating one of late. Nowadays even Web links are likely to ter

Best known as a prominent blogger, and Vice President and Chief Evangelist of Expert Labs, Anil Dash is this week's guest. Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tri. We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes. Thanks to Cachefly for

Best known as a prominent blogger, and Vice President and Chief Evangelist of Expert Labs, Anil Dash is this week's guest. Three of the most important events in tech history that happened on January 5th. What should Google do in 2012, Google instant payi

(This post is part of News.me’s ongoing series, “Getting the News.” In our efforts to understand everything about social news, we’re reaching out to writers and thinkers we like to ask them how they get their daily news. Read the first post here. See all

● Follow the road to sustainable development with Andrew Liveris of Dow Chemical in his latest partnership with The Nature Conservancy ● Get free solicitor advice with our no win no fee solicitors to gain access to justice I kicked off AidJobs, collectin

Anil Dash has a characteristically great, smart noodle on the future of 3D printing, including several provocative ideas (the emnently sensible notion of not reinventing the printer as a platform for selling expensive consumable "ink" is, alas, a little

The results are in: Brandon Diamond, two-year volunteer veteran of the New York Tech Meetup, has won the election for one of the four community seats on the nonprofit’s board with 126 of the 502 votes cast. Mr. Diamond’s initial victory tweet: “Oh my god

The index tracks 125 social media accounts belonging to federal agencies, Expert Labs founder Anil Dash explained to me today. Powered by Expert Labs' ThinkUp app for tracking Twitter questions and answers, the web application provides a weekly look at w