Fired SendGrid Developer Evangelist Adria Richards Speaks Out

Richards proposes that she work to promote inclusivity within the developer community.
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Dive Into Mobile Adds Google’s Schmidt, Waze’s Bardin and Twitter’s Sippey

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, Waze CEO Noam Bardin and Twitter VP Michael Sippey join the D: Dive Into Mobile speaker roster.
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Zendesk Hacker Accesses Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest Data

No passwords were involved, said the companies, who are alerting their users tonight.
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Former YouTube and Twitter Product Heads Acknowledge They’re Teaming Up

After a well-founded Fortune report today that former YouTube VP product Hunter Walk was teaming up with former Twitter VP product Satya Patel to start a small venture capital fund called Homebrew, both men addressed the news, sort of. Patel said he and Walk were “working on some new projects” and Walk posted a goodbye-to-Google-after-nine-years note on his blog.

No, I Don’t Want to Tell You About the Fastest Way to Lose Body Fat in Two Weeks

On-purpose tweeting is the best kind.
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2012, The Year I Basically Stopped Using Apple’s iOS Apps

Go ahead, tell me what’s wrong with my homescreen selections.
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Evan Williams’s Advice to Start-Ups: Don’t Be Too Data-Driven

Don’t look at stats all the time, says the Twitter and Blogger founder. Fight the dragons and go through the dark forest.
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A Look at the 472 Private Tech Companies Currently Worth $100M or More (Slides)

Palantir, SurveyMonkey, GitHub, Square, ZocDoc, Zulily, LegalZoom, Twitter, Warby Parker and others made the list.
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Google Not Only Misses Earnings, It Accidentally Releases Them Early, and Market Doesn’t Like It

Yikes. Google blames its printer for jumping the gun.
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Votizen Live Dashboard Gives Structure to Endless Streams of Political Tweets

Here’s a way to push through the so-called “filter bubble” to look at a broader audience and get a more qualified take on who’s saying what.
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Andreessen Horowitz Hires Twitter’s Elizabeth Weil to Focus on Social

Mark Cuban Invests in Little Bird to Find Online Influentials

Tumblr Blesses Its First Analytics Provider, Union Metrics

Friendster Founder Jonathan Abrams Is Back, and He Wants to Bring You Your Tech News

Big Years for Instagram and Pinterest Bust Up the Social Networking Charts

Twitter Plans to Choke Access to Apps It Doesn’t Approve

Twitter Founders Launch Medium, a New Collaborative Publishing Platform

Klout Revises Its Algorithm — But Fear Not, It Says Most Scores Will Go Up

LinkedIn to Developers: We’ll Give You the Clarity the Other Platforms Won’t

Banjo Location App Takes You to the Olympics From Anywhere in the World

The Reinvention of Bitly: A Social Bookmarking Site for Mainstream Users

WordPress, Reddit, Cheezburger and Others Join New Internet Defense League