How to run a small social network site for your friends – Darius Kazemi

It’s easier than ever to create a small community for your friends, family, or organization that stays as private or public as you want.

Why does decentralization matter? – Official Mastodon Blog

This is a good, real-world explainer of a core philosophy behind Mastodon and the greater fediverse of connected, interoperable services, like PixelFed. I’m a big fan of this grown platform of content and social platforms, especially their underlying design and mission.

I wish Blendle worked more like a feed reader

I like this attempt at micro-transactions-for-news, but I can’t help but feel it could use a different approach.

Good Google Drive alternatives for collaborating on documents, notes, presentations, and more

Google hasn’t been the only game in town for a while. There’s a great variety of options and features these days.

The case for editing tweets

It’s actually quite simple.

Dropmark is my new service for bookmarks and collecting, sharing neat stuff

I’ve been asked what Dropmark is and how I use it, so here we go. TL;DR: it’s a service for bookmarks, file sharing, and collaboration, and it’s replaced a few things for me. I really like it.

A high-level comparison of Squarespace and Weebly

The services are similar in a number of ways, but I recently decided to give Weebly a shot for for building new company’s site. I’m glad I did.