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Nicholas Molnar
Wantering co-founder, Fuck Cancer board member, and the guy who ate your canteloupe.
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- AngelList was already awesome. With this new crowdfunding bill passed, it's going to be insane. http://t.co/cUFUL82a
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- Jil Sander Degradé Silk and Cashmere-Blend... http://t.co/ThReiotA via @thefancy
- Mannn, now I want to read all of the TEDBooks. There goes a week of my next few months. http://t.co/VDn8yXgv
- Change that Twitter password @katie_dunsworth. Y'got phished.Jan 19, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Swizz Beats is the CEO of MegaUpload. And not like Kenny Powers is the CEO of K-Swiss, either. Weird. http://t.co/6Tw9z2Ke
- "When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of..." http://t.co/qWdo3rTi
- RT @jeffjacobson: seeing the internet unified in a way that only happens when someone really famous dies
- Fight the internet and it's gonna fight back
- Rescuing a stray puppy. Not stealing. I swear. http://t.co/bRQgyujZ
- Cheery Sunday reading: the WEF's Global Risks Report. http://t.co/aeGeHLDc
- Big thanks to @SophiaBush for slipping subliminal messages into the One Tree Hill premiere tonight to get people to donate...I assume
- RT @letsfcancer: Cue jumping up &down in excitement!We won the #FirefoxChallenge! Thank you so much to everyone that donated &helped...
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- Why aren't there more javascript hackers building new features on top of Tumblr? Or fun apps that use the API?
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Over the past few months myself, Matt, Jesse, and Nick have been experimenting with a new service called Wantering. Our goal has been to find the best products in the world, and match them with the most beautiful photos on the web. In our haste to make something awesome, we made a big mistake.
We quickly found that many of the most beautiful product photos on the web are taken by lifestyle fashion bloggers. Instead of asking these bloggers to join Wantering, we sourced their photos and then emailed them asking if they would like to opt out. While very few of these bloggers chose this option (four to date), their comments have made us realize that this was not the right way to build an ecosystem. They have, quite rightfully, expressed concern and frustration that we had been using their photos in ways that they didn’t explicitly approve of.Today, we’re announcing several changes to the way Wantering works. The first is that we are moving to an invite-only model. Select bloggers will be receiving an email in the next few days offering them invites to be a part of Wantering. Any blogs that have not opted in to the system will have their photos on Wantering replaced or removed later this week.
For those that join, we are also making some changes to how we show attribution. While we have always linked back to photo sources, we have received a lot of feedback that these links are not large or prominent enough. We will be redesigning the product pages to make it clearer where the photos come from, and to drive more traffic back to the original blog posts. We are also working on building out blogger profiles, to give our users more information about the blogs whose photographs are shown on the site and to make it easier for them to find and follow bloggers on Wantering. We have a long way to go, but we’re committed to getting there.
For bloggers, we think this makes Wantering a better opportunity than ever to grow their brand and show off their work. We’re committed to growing Wantering into a massive referrer of traffic to fashion blogs, and the blogs that sign on with us early will be able to share in our success.
To the bloggers who feel that their work has been used inappropriately, I would like to offer an unqualified apology. We will work hard to earn back your trust and find new ways to help grow your business.If you have any questions you can contact me at nm@wantering.com
This is happening faster than any journalist wants to acknowledge.
If you haven’t already checked out Dustin Curtis’ newest project, you should. He has curated a remarkable group of bloggers, and packaged their work up in a clean and sophisticated interface.
Great discussion. National Security Letters are one of the scariest things out there, today. ISPs, or websites that hold user data, can be forced to turn over any information they might hold. No warrants or judicial oversight. And you can go to jail for 5+ years for even acknowledging that you received the letter, so this is all happening invisibly.
MakerBot Pinterest = Craft Juggernaut
If we’re talking about things that could be bigger than the internet in impact, computer controlled production tools belongs at the top of the list. Looks like at least one company has already hit serious revenue numbers, focusing on the consumer market. See also the My Robot Nation acquisition and the Objet/Stratsys merger. It’s happening.
This decade of the teens already has a set character, it is crisis doomer gothic favela atemporal. The New Aesthetic isn’t like that, and doesn’t belong to that. It is a fresh and different thing. It’s an avant-garde, and it commonly takes years for society to recuperate an avant-garde. In 2012, premonitory blogposts; in 2022, solo shows and coffee-table books.
-Bruce Sterling
“Part of what I’m learning in being out here—and this probably sounds like way too serious for me—is how to be a businessman,” he says. “I always pictured it like some older people who, like, take themselves really seriously and have lawyers do everything and try to like write contracts that are just really advantageous to them. And like, I’m kind of learning, that’s not it.
“If you’re gonna be a good businessman, really what it’s about, is finding situations where people win. It’s not about tricking people into doing stuff, it’s not about being a hardass. It’s about being comfortable and working in your pajamas, because that’s gonna end up being what’s best for everyone.”
-Mark Zuckerberg (2005) | The Harvard Crimson
Interesting read, thinking about the Instagram acquisition. Facebook could have created a killer mobile photo upload system that borrowed the best parts of Instagram for a few million bucks. Probably would’ve worked, considering the percentage of Instagram users who also use Facebook Photos. But instead they did the cool thing and created a bunch of new winners.
Basically, it adds an “unless we think the NSA could use this” provision to all the other privacy laws, and opens the door for censorship of politically unpopular groups.
When they give you lined paper, write the other way.
-Juan Ramón Jiménez
‘A Test You Need to Fail’: A Teacher’s Open Letter to Her 8th Grade Students
TSA has spent approximately $60 billion since 2002 and now has over 65,000 employees, more than the Department of State, more than the Department of Energy, more than the Department of Labor, more than the Department of Education, more than the Department of Housing and Urban Development—-combined.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
Banksy, on advertisingThis is Not a Conspiracy Theory by Kirby Ferguson
The creator of the wonderful Everything Is A Remix series.
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Recent Tracks
- Caught Me Thinkin by Bahamas
- Lost In The Light by Bahamas
- Sanctuary by Young Magic
- Cavalry by Young Magic
- The Dancer by Young Magic
- Watch For Our Lights by Young Magic
- Night in the Ocean by Young Magic
- Jam Karet by Young Magic
- Yalam by Young Magic
- You With Air by Young Magic
M83Portugal. The ManRJD2TychoBombay Bicycle ClubDeath Cab For CutieThe RaptureStarsWilcoChildish GambinoFeistOK GoOkkervil RiverKings of LeonLykke LiGotyeThe Budos BandJack JohnsonOtis ReddingAtmosphereA Tribe Called QuestSBTRKTRadioheadCollegeThe AntlersDan ManganNPRCultsTalking HeadsTV on the RadioThe NationalJames BlakeVoxtrotHead Like A KiteBen KwellerFight Like ApesPaul KalkbrennerAndrew BirdBloc PartyTokyo Police ClubAretha FranklinDrakeThe Magnetic FieldsGirl TalkMUTEMATHPhantogramActive ChildMorcheebaFujiya & MiyagiKanye West- Midnight City by M8331 plays
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