How Foursquare is building the map of the future

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Fast Company has a very interesting interview with David Blackman, Foursquare’s lead geographic infrastructure engineer:

The Verge interviews Matt Haughey

MetaFilter founder: Reddit’s ‘creepy stuff’ shows how hard it is to run an open community

Nothing much new in this interview, but still worth the quick read.

Bookmarks for December 13th through December 15th

Facebook Makes Us All Sad Because Everyone Is Happy But Us
Mule Design Studio’s Blog: Tart Up Your Startup!
Old gold: @mulegirl wrote about some of the stuff I mentioned at #warmgun today. And she’s smarter than me: http://t.co/GMz54nfR
Instagram Engineering • What Powers Instagram: Hundreds of Instances, Dozens of Technologies
The Internet and Social inequality: social media and digital divide | Digital serendipities – Danica Radovanovic’s thoughts about technology, media, life
Do unto others… | Sarah Parmenter, a web and UI designer.
Russell Monk’s Open-Air Studio – NYTimes.com
Love when people just set up & start taking portraits. Such a great way to elevate & celebrate the folks in your hood: http://t.co/pykxePyr
inessential.com: Apps and web apps and the future
A man, a ball, a hoop, a bench (and an alleged thread)… TELLER! – Las Vegas Weekly
It’s Lonely in the Modern World: The Essential Guide to Form, Function, and Ennui from the Creators of UnhappyHipsters.com: Amazon.de: Molly Jane Quinn, Jenna Talbott: Bücher

Bookmarks for July 28th

Panda! | pixi.li
Panda!
Three Chatbots Answer the Proust Questionnaire | Slacktory | The only site on the internet.
"My favorite band is rubber."
Proust Questionnaire – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: A Post Gender Normative Man Tries to Pick Up a Woman at a Bar.
"A Post Gender Normative Man Tries to Pick Up a Woman at a Bar"
Solipsism
France Is Bacon

Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld

Almost every interview I have read or seen with him is pretty much awesome.

Bill Watterson, creator of beloved ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ comic strip looks back with no regrets

Bill Watterson, creator of beloved ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ comic strip looks back with no regrets

His first interview in 15 years.

Interview mit Anil Dash

Ziemlich interessantes Interview mit Anil Dash auf bigthink.com:

Mobile Internet Mapping, leaders and science fiction.

These are my links for February 26th through February 28th:

A Virtual Unknown

A Virtual Unknown – washingtonpost.com – Meet 'Moot,' the Secretive Internet Celeb Who Still Lives With Mom.

Es wäre schön, wenn amerikanische Cowboys türkische Filme sehen könnten.

Ethan und Joel Coen im Zeit-Interview

Ein Interview mit William Gibson

In der aktuellen Rolling Stone. Ausdrucken! [via boingboing]

Gerade, wenn man eine Frau ist

Ich glaube, wann man vom «Playboy» angesprochen wird, ob man so etwas machen möchte, dann fällt es nicht so richtig leicht, ‘nein’ zu sagen. Das ist eine tolle Sache, gerade, wenn man eine Frau ist.

Stimmt. Denn normalerweise werden gerade beim Playboy für solche Sachen in erster Linie Männer angesprochen, Frau Boese.