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An inspiration engine for ideas
My aim is not to convince you that everything was better in the past; it wasn't. You had trojans, malware, endless pop-ups, terrible security practices, browser incompatibility, slow Java applets. No, technically, the modern web is more secure and more usable.
Parimal Satyal • Rediscovering the Small Web
The search experience on the internet is dying. Google is no longer trying to organize the world’s information. It’s just scraping it, stealing it, and serving an AI generated mashup of everything it steals from human creators in an effort to keep people on the first page of search results, because that’s where their ads are and where they make the
... See moreVictor practices what he preaches: he doesn’t use computers to build better mousetraps, but to explore and communicate ideas in a way that uniquely exploits the properties and possibilities of a programmable, dynamic, interactive medium.
medium.com • The Utopian UI Architect
Curators are API’s that exist between people and all the knowledge of the world.
An API is an “application programming interface” that allows two apps to communicate, sending data between someone requesting something and a database full of data.
A curator exists in the space between people who want to know more about a topic and the massive amounts
... See moreThat approach: build protocols, not platforms.
Mike Masnick • Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech
The client-server relationship is arguably the crux of the worst problems with the contemporary internet. Examples include having to manage many different login credentials, being exploited by algorithms outside your control, the inability to own your data, the inability to customize interfaces, and constant political battles over what servers shou... See more