Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

Recently Gowalla was bought by Facebook.  I immediately said the user accounts would be merged, users would be forced to transfer to Facebook and Gowalla would be shut down.  Turns out I was partially correct.  Some people on Twitter were happy for the founders of Gowalla as they made some money selling out to Facebook [...]

Online music is a fascinating space with a lot of creativity and competitors, there are many heavyweights but plenty of nimble startups as well. In the olden days, online music meant pirated music. I have too much respect for musicians to be a pirate. Of course I’m in the minority and musicians have had to [...]