How we rebuilt x.com on the web: one server for people, search crawlers, and link previews, now rolling out to signed-in people country by country, and the performance work since.
All The Places
A growing set of web scrapers designed to output consistent geodata about as many places of business in the world as possible.
It's time to rebuild the web
The web was never supposed to be a few walled gardens of concentrated content owned by a few major publishers; it was supposed to be a cacophony of different sites and voices.
we were online
Turn the internet into a living, shared space with real-time traces of people browsing.
TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites
TownSquare adds a small shared place to your website where visitors can see each other, walk around, and chat.
How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...
How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...
Part I: The Next Great Online Community
There’s a lack of innovation in community software. Let's dive into internet history, and get inspired!
Openvibe — Town Square for Open Social Media
Interact With Anyone On The Open Internet. All Decentralised Social Networks, Single Timeline.
Toward Wayfinding Infrastructure for the Living Web · Atlas Research Group
Our world is getting crazier by the day. Our old maps and compasses weren’t made for this complexity. While new tools may open up amazing possibilities, they also make it easier to lose ourselves – especially when they don’t belong to us, and make us vulnerable to other people’s hidden choices and unsavory intentions about what is worth attending to.
Home Page
We are an international community of communities bound by a common interest in persistent infrastructure. So far, we have welcomed agencies that manage communities spanning entertainment, standards, the built environment, natural history collections, scholarly communications, and research data.
The year we wanted the internet to be smaller
Why tiny, weird online communities made a comeback in 2017
