Reposted: Read A $200 Million Seed Valuation for Roam Shows Investor Frenzy for Note-Taking Apps by Chris Aldrich

Roam Research should really be going the Zebra route and not the VC funding route. If the 11 person company is truly self-supporting with its current user base and there’s so much upside for growth, they’d be far better off to keep that value internally.
The only reason for VC funding is if they…

Long-time readers will know that I’m a big fan of RSS feeds. An RSS reader has been essential to my web experience since I first came online, and I’ve doggedly stuck to using them even as the web has centralised onto a few platforms and much digital ink spilt about the “death of RSS”. Luckil…

I am concerned that a lot of computer systems research is solving problems that only huge tech companies have (eg. fast datacenter networking, big data analytics systems), rather than working on technologies that empower individual users and the underprivileged. https://t.co/CozZXKpylV

— Martin Kleppmann (@martinkl) July 30, 2020

Reposted: Raising the alarm by Ben Werdmüller

It’s impossible to ignore.

Federal agents dressed in military gear have been bundling protesters into unmarked vehicles (allegedly rented from Enterprise) in Portland, with additional reports from Chicago and San Diego. The White House has announced that they’ll be rolling these troops out nationwi…

Over the last 7 years, Spotify has earned me 4.3% of what Bandcamp has. Over the last 3 months it's 1.6%.
Getting playlisted by the Spotify lords and heard by 50,000 people is worth as much as ~20 people deciding to pay a fiver for a release on Bandcamp. https://t.co/XFgVOUFc3N

— DΛTΛSSSSSETTE (@datassette) July 7, 2020

No, no, no, no, NO. ** screams into void ** pic.twitter.com/Bvz8lYOxYW

— Karen Hao (@_KarenHao) July 23, 2020

We're waiting in anticipation of 7th May, last day of Henrik Huseby's Supreme Court process, defending himself against Apple. There's still time to support the Norwegian independent repairer against the $1 trillion corporation https://t.co/QquWx5JgZ8

— The Restart Project (@RestartProject) May 4, 2020

Sneak peek at #Stroll, the successor to my #TiddlyBlink, which is a @TiddlyWiki with nods to @RoamResearch. Still under testing and will have a permanent home in a week. But you can play with it here: https://t.co/xcZlqJ1c2Y

— Dave Gifford (@giffmex) May 2, 2020