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ah I see, sorry if the title was misleading.

hah, my bad! thanks again for doing it.

Really? Just tested again and it worked fine. Sorry about that. @ me on twitter @jrlevine if you're still willing to give feedback.

wow, good call. late night oversight. edited the survey.

and here's the smarter answer from @tolar: Geofencing typically relies on cell tower changes, a coarser measure of location than GPS, but one that saves on battery life.

I've been using it for the last few weeks and it's really not bad. Eager to hear your experience with it — jake [at] news.me

Cool idea. For now we just support one location, but you can make that location whatever you want (home, office, etc.)

So the short story is that we're using geofencing to download news content in the background when you leave your preset "Home" location. Super useful for subway commuters. Kudos to @tolar, iOS developer and subway rider extraordinaire for coming up with it and building it in a weekend.

best website ever

well articulated!

Sarcasm :) sorry, I got a little snarky there.

Totally agree with you.

awesome — we've got some work to do for sure. looking forward to any thoughts you have on what to improve.

Where were you 6 months ago? :)

Thanks for the comment. Following the spinout from bitly, we're assuming a more ambitious vision for the app. Stay tuned...

(ps we're big fans of pro publica. keep up the great work!)

Startups don't have the resources of large companies to invest in on-campus recruiting efforts, and the CRC doesn't have the time/money to bring together a bunch of small companies. It's just easier to bring in the big players and try to employ as many students as you can.

That means it's up to you to speak up, use the tools at your disposal (linkedin, wescan) to find the people who are more than willing to help, and to make the opportunity for yourself.

Totally agree, but the blame doesn't fully lie with the CRC. The fact is that these banks/consulting firms have a much stronger presence on all campuses, and the CRC is only reacting to that + the student demand that that outreach generates.

Awesome to hear that. I sort of stumbled into the digital wesleyan community when I started looking for advice on how to get into the internet space after graduation.

One of the big ideas behind digital wesleyan was to make students like you aware of the massive network that you have at your fingertips.

Wesleyan (and other schools) are only as good as students and alumni make it, so if you want to be active in the tech world, prove it by bringing the tech world to you. There is no shortage of entrepreneurs, vcs, and operators who would be happy to come back to wesleyan and preach the truth!

New York, NY - News.me

http://www.news.me/jobs

We're hiring for:

- Senior iOS Engineer - Front End Developer - Software Engineer (Python)

What we're about:

At News.me we're on a mission to create a new type of news product. We're building a product that will be fundamentally social, span multiple devices, and accommodate a variety of reading styles.

We believe in a Web organized around people, not pages; where discovery is social and happens across platforms. New devices like the iPhone and iPad are completely altering the way that users interact with content. They offer tremendous opportunities to create experiences that are personal and human. The news experience must be re-imagined for this level of intimacy.

We live, eat, sleep and breathe this stuff and want to work with brilliant people who care as deeply as we do about what we are trying to build. If that sounds like you, get in touch!

Here's what some people are saying about News.me:

"News.me is pushing the edge of what a social news stream looks like" (TechCrunch)

"An Eye Opening App...Seeing the online world through different peoples' perspectives is a remarkably unique way to experience news consumption." (ReadWriteWeb)

We are building a world-class team and are looking for people who want to: - Get in on the ground floor of a well-capitalized startup with a big vision - Collaborate with a small team on all aspects of product and business model strategy - Engineer a beautiful experience that touches millions of people - Explore the boundaries of emergent devices

That danah boyd article is excellent. She nicely describes the trade offs inherent to regulation.

Totally agree with you. I'm not pushing for regulation, I'm arguing for data portability.

Your issue is with the government's right to enforce antitrust law, for which there is a long history showing why they should. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_law

I wholeheartedly disagree. Force doesn't always look like the point of a gun. More often than not it looks like court time and lawyers' fees.

See Hays Code censoring film from 1930-1968. See RCA tying up the FM radio patent for years in court and NBC blocking the emergence of Television. See consolidation in the radio industry limiting the number of participants in broadcasting.

Wu puts it nicely:

“If making yourself heard cannot be practically accomplished in an actual public square but rather depends upon some medium, and upon that medium is built an industry restricting access to it, there is no free market for speech.

We sometimes treat the information industries as if they were like any other enterprise, but they are not, for their structure determines who gets heard.

But barriers in an information industry, trafficking as it does in expressive content, can represent more than a restraint on commercial aspirations; they can, depending on how crucially the information medium figures in a society’s communications, also restrain free speech."

Wu, Tim (2010). The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires. Knopf. Kindle Edition.

The public good is the opportunity to speak and compete. Those who control the channels of distribution on the web control both.

Nope, we're just using the standard public API and calling the last 200 tweets. To get at more than 200 we have to use some ugly looping that breaks more often than it works.

http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/user_timeline

We keep seeing that error, and are guessing it has to do with the Twitter API. We need to create some better error handling. Thanks for sharing.

By the way, just refresh a couple of times and you should see your results.

I'd like to say it was broken on purpose to make my point...clearly I make a poor revolutionary. (Updated to include OpenID and Twitter)

Well said - I would argue that what is at stake here is far more immediate than any of the 'fights' mentioned above. User choice in the examples above refer to service use. In a war for the social web, what is at stake is the way user identity is represented online.

The point here is not necessarily to protect a potential "Facebook Killer," but rather to protect any service that wants and deserves its own piece of the social web. This isn't about duplicating Facebook's feature set but improving on it.