Jack Reichert

Fullstack Philosopher

Tag: social network

  • Two Fundamental Things Wrong with Social Networks

    Two Fundamental Things Wrong with Social Networks

    There are many things wrong with social networks and I won’t cover all of them here. But I’d like to address two. Productivity Tech really shines when it comes to making tasks more efficient. But I don’t want my relationships to be more efficient! There was a time before social networks where I had lists…

  • A Domain-Agnostic Social Network

    Ever since the guys at Diaspora raised 200k on Kickstarter I’ve had an itch I am trying to scratch. I wrote a little bit about this already but thought it would be good to flesh out the idea a bit more and put it out there for the sake of “the conversation.” As users of…

  • Facebook Refugee Unplugs From Social Media – NPR

    Katherine Losse, Facebook’s 51st employee, has recently left after spending five years at the company. Rising from customer service representative to ghost writer for Mark Zuckerberg, she’s recently left Facebook to live on a farm and write a book: The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network. I haven’t read it…

  • Why Automattic Should Buy Path

    (Alternate Title) How WordPress Can Fix Social I went to the breakout NYC PandoMonthly Event this by Pando Daily past week. It was a pleasure watching Sarah Lacy (@sarahcuda), doing what she does best: interviewing one of my heroes Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) all about WordPress, how he got started, the future of WP, social networks…