Author name: dbasch

I’ve been playing with app.net for a few weeks. It’s still a relatively small community: there are about 20k users, […]

It’s 2 pm. Alice goes to Facebook. Bob goes to Amazon. Charlie goes to Twitter. If you have to bet

I attended a Machine Learning meetup at Twitter yesterday. It was a very good event, and I learned a few

This weekend David Sacks (CEO of Yammer, sold to Microsoft for $1.2B) made a statement that I consider extremely shortsighted:

Facebook and Twitter, after years of searching for the I-wanna-be-like-Google business model, have settled on ads. The oldest business model

Over the past few months there has been significant discussion about what makes a password secure (relevant xkcd comic that

Gmail is almost certainly the most important web service I use. It has become the master key for many other

I wonder if there are governments or private parties already doing it. The idea is pretty simple: The Foursquare API

It happens all the time to many of us. We try to sign up for a site, and choose a

This weekend I fetched 1M random user profiles from Twitter, just because. I figured it would be enough to answer