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Felix Salmon / Medium:
The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency   —  A few days ago, the value of all the bitcoins in the world blew past $1 billion for the first time ever.  That's an impressive achievement, for a purely virtual currency backed by no central bank or other authority.
Apr 3, 2013, 11:00 AMIn context
Ev Williams / Medium:
When to Sell Your Company   —  On October 30, 2008, I wrote an email to Twitter's board of directors, which started: … This email was in reply to a thread in which we were briefly discussing an overture we'd received from a much larger company.  Of course, in 2008 Twitter was much, much smaller than it is today.
Feb 21, 2013, 6:35 PMIn context
Josh Miller / Medium:
Tenth Grade Tech Trends   —  A few months ago, my fifteen-year-old sister told me that Snapchat was going to be the next Instagram.  Many months before that she told me that Instagram was being used by her peers as much as Facebook.  Both times I snickered.
Dec 29, 2012, 4:35 PMIn context
Ev Williams / Medium:
Medium's director of content: Kate Lee   —  I'm happy to announce the addition of Kate Lee to Medium's team.  Kate has spent most of her career as a literary agent at ICM, discovering authors on the web (among other places) and helping get books published, from conception through production.
Nov 20, 2012, 11:45 AMIn context
Evan Williams / medium.com:
Welcome to Medium   —  We're rethinking publishing and building a new platform from scratch.  This is a preview.  Compared to 1999, the Internet has a come a long way.  It has gone from theoretically to actually central to how many of us live and work (even outside the Internet industry).
Aug 14, 2012, 7:05 PMIn context

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Microsoft BizSpark:
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Cloud Foundry:
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry?  Come on in!  —  Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project.  It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API  —  The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR  —  Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review.  Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).