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Category: community
Does what happens at YC stay at YC?
Community has never felt louder in startupland. Bringing people together over a shared interest is innate to human nature, and coming out of a lonely, draining pandemic, every startup is…
Pratilipi, a ‘YouTube for writers’ storytelling platform in India, raises $15 million
Pratilipi, an app that is uniting writers in India and encouraging others to try their hand at storytelling, has just raised $15 million to expand its network in the nation….
The ethics of internet culture: a conversation with Taylor Lorenz
Taylor Lorenz was in high demand this week. As a prolific journalist at The Atlantic and about-to-be member of Harvard’s prestigious Nieman Fellowship for journalism, that’s perhaps not surprising. Nor…
Flickr says all Creative Commons photos are protected from deletion, not just past uploads
Flickr announced today that all Creative Commons images will remain protected on its site – including those uploaded in the past and those that will be added in the future….
Has the fight over privacy changed at all in 2019?
Albert Gidari Albert Gidari is the Consulting Director of Privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. He was a partner for over 20 years at Perkins Coie LLP,…
TechCrunch Conversations: Direct listings
Last April, Spotify surprised Wall Street bankers by choosing to go public through a direct listing process rather than through a traditional IPO. Instead of issuing new shares, the company simply…
The limits of coworking
It feels like there’s a WeWork on every street nowadays. Take a walk through midtown Manhattan (please don’t actually) and it might even seem like there are more WeWorks than…
The nation-state of the internet
The internet is a community, but can it be a nation-state? It’s a question that I have been pondering on and off this year, what with the rise of digital…
The economics and tradeoffs of ad-funded smart city tech
In order to have innovative smart city applications, cities first need to build out the connected infrastructure, which can be a costly, lengthy, and politicized process. Third-parties are helping build…