see GoldFarmer

Zapier provides workflows to automate the use of web applications together. It is often described as a translator between web APIs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapier cf NoCode

OnDeck: Organizing the World’s Ambition. Below we share five independent ideas at the core of On Deck, and attempt to weave them into an updated, ambitious vision of the future: (more)

Sept'2021: pondering how to sketch out a small software bootstrap, what a DAO model would add to a BetterMeans + GruntFund framework. (ToWrite) (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Paxlovid Remains Illegal: 11/24 Update. What Alex Tabarrok called The Paxlovid Paradox is getting noticed by the people who notice such things, and completely ignored by everyone else. I’ve split off this week’s Paxlovid update to help make the situation easier to notice, and easier to remember and reference later, lest we forget. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 11/18: Paxlovid Remains Illegal. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Omicron Variant Post #1: We’re F***ed, It’s Never Over. The last day has seen the imposition of new travel restrictions and spreading alarm about the Omicron variant. It sure looks like a repeat of what happened with Alpha and Delta, as well as the original strain back in early 2020, and that we are probably doing this again. (covid-19) (more)

Balaji Srinivasan: The Network Union. the network union, a social graph organized in a tree-like structure with a leader, a purpose, a crypto-based financial and messaging system, and a daily call-to-action. cf DAO, cooperative (more)

The Digital Movie Creator Digital Camera, from the Intel Play division (since closed). I shouldn't call this thing the IntelPlay, because the division made other products, but "Digital Movie Creator" is just a horrible name. (more)

Pondering how to Integrate Images And Files Into WikiFlux (for both WikiLog and PrivateWiki. (more)

CRM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipedrive (more)

Paul Ford: CMS ❤ CRM (more)

a tools for thought (more)

A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), sometimes labeled a decentralized autonomous corporation (DAC), is an organization represented by rules encoded as a computer program that is transparent, controlled by the organization members and not influenced by a central government.[1][2] A DAO's financial transaction record and program rules are maintained on a blockchain.[3]:229[4][5] The precise legal status of this type of business organization is unclear.[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organization A well-known example, intended for venture capital funding, was The DAO, which launched with $150 million in crowdfunding in June 2016, and was immediately hacked and drained of US$50 million in cryptocurrency.[7] This hack was reversed in the following weeks, and the money restored, via a hard fork of the Ethereum blockchain. This bailout was made possible by the Ethereum miners and clients switching to the new fork.[8] (more)

Gina Trapani of Postlight: Ten Technologies to Know in 2020. Here are 10 of the technologies, terms, and tools to know about in 2020. (more)

Elixir is a functional, concurrent, general-purpose programming language that runs on the BEAM virtual machine which is also used to implement the Erlang programming language.[3] Elixir builds on top of Erlang and shares the same abstractions for building distributed, fault-tolerant applications. Elixir also provides productive tooling and an extensible design. The latter is supported by compile-time metaprogramming with macros and polymorphism via protocols. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elixir_(programming_language)

Packy McCormick: What's On Deck for On Deck? Today, On Deck is announcing that it’s raising a $20 million Series A led by Keith Rabois at Founders Fund. (more)

computer game that was supposed to be a joke, but....

All about Alibaba: ambition and humility in the company's campus and culture. Jack Ma’s fondness for martial arts stems in part from his admiration of the work of Jin Yong, a Hong Kong-based writer who published a series of adventure novels revolving around heroes and combat scenes. While published during the 20th century, the books are usually set in medieval Chinese history and draw on a long tradition of China’s wuxia, or martial arts-related fiction (more)

"On Deck is where top talent comes to accelerate their ideas and careers, surrounded by a world-class community." https://www.beondeck.com/ (more)