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The app is about exploring new information, drawing the user towards connections he or she doesn't yet understand. We wanted a way to encourage ourselves to explore Wikipedia furth…

We were thinking about working on a bookmarklet to make the Safari > Wikiweb (or another Wikipedia app that has a url scheme) transition easier.

We rolled our own physics to get the layout in the node view to a point that felt right.

It's definitely a big redesign of the feature, but it was still possible before. As noted by TC last year, http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/20/facebook-not-now-follow/ , when you requ…

There's also a really new one (they just launched their site a week or two ago) in Baltimore. http://thestartupcity.com/

Ben does a great job of simplifying a host of issues down to just two, but in the end, he seems to end up blaming the user rather than the system for the problems in notification s…

It's hard to say what exactly is happening right now, but I don't think there's much of a reason to expect an industry wide "pop" soon. As mkr-hn said, the companies are certainly …

This article really speaks to some of the ideas presented by Paul Graham in his essay about the future of startups[1]. Combining ideas from them paints a particularly optimistic pi…

It really is amazing how much making sure the little things are right can help. I think it helps develop a slightly more emotional connection for the user as they find themselves s…

I think you're getting at a very interesting conflict here that the author of the article attempted to explain. While user metrics can gauge the success of a web startup, that's of…

While I have used this kind of authentication before, I'm not intimately familiar with it. From the way Kincaid described it in the article, it seems the key is unique only to a ge…

The ads really were in a terrible place for the email experience. I almost stopped using it as well until I found a setting in the preferences that just said "Disable Ads" and that…