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Anil Dash 
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Terminal Snooping
Seriously, though, surreptitiously spying on what users do is actually the underpinning of the entire web advertising industry.
– Anil Dash, via Twitter
The Things We Left Behind
We get bullshit turf battles like Tumblr not being able to find your Twitter friends or Facebook not letting Instagram photos show up on Twitter because of giant companies pursuing their agendas instead of collaborating in a way that would serve users. And we get a generation of entrepreneurs encouraged to make more narrow-minded, web-hostile products like these because it continues to make a small number of wealthy people even more wealthy, instead of letting lots of people build innovative new opportunities for themselves on top of the web itself.
– Anil Dash, in a post on his personal blog, entitled “The Web We Lost”
Standalone Wit
It’s the best standalone platform there is for witticisms.
– Evan Williams, CEO of the Obvious Corporation and former CEO of Twitter, speaking about Twitter at Climate Week in New York, via @anildash
Surface Aggression
Renewed aggressiveness from Microsoft could do the whole tech industry a lot of good. iTunes is as bloated and user-hostile as Outlook was in the ’90s.
– Anil Dash, on the Surface tablet
Forum
How Will Facebook’s Zuckerberg Adapt to Working in the Public Eye?
Brandee Barker, Anil Dash, Jason Hirschhorn and Robert Scoble reflect on how Facebook’s shy wunderkind will perform as the head of a publicly traded company.
How to Win a Twitter Fight
Arguing online is like wearing a sharkskin vest. You look like a jerk.
–Anil Dash, in Businessweek’s How To issue
Gawker Will Deputize Commenters, Says Sheriff Nick Denton
Gawker plans to launch an ambitious new commenting model within the next couple months, said its founder Nick Denton at SXSW today.
New Start-Ups Branch and PandaWhale Provide Homes for Online Discussions
Can we go beyond YouTube comments and Twitter trolls? Two start-ups hope to foster and aggregate quality discourse on the Internet. No, really!
Revolutionary Remembrance
Ok it’s official: No more maudlin Steve Jobs remembrances unless accompanied by the release of a revolutionary product.
Anil Dash (@anildash) via Twitter
Condé Nast Brings Gourmet–But Not Its Staff–Back From the Dead
Last fall, Condé Nast shuttered Gourmet, its beloved but unprofitable food title. Now the publisher is bringing Gourmet back, with a new plan to turn it into a moneymaker: Keep the brand–via an app-centric magazine–but lose the staff.