André Staltz - An off-grid social network (more)

Adults Are Terrible At Making Friends. This Startup Wants To Help (more)

Samsung’s Bixby Intelligent Software Assistant said to be based on S Voice, not Viv Labs’ technology (more)

Jack Dorsey's SquareUp wants to acquihire Yik Yak (more)

Mike Caulfield: Creating a Wikipedia for Fact-Checking (more)

Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon. (more)

Goodbye Twitter, hello Amazon: NFL's Thursday night games have a new home (more)

InstaPaper CEO, now at PInterest (more)

Teresa Torres: The Ladder of Evidence: Get More Value From Your Customer Interviews and Product Experiments - Product Talk (more)

Feb22: Most U.S. Internet users will be subject to a new Copy Right enforcement system that could slow the Internet to a crawl and force violators to take educational courses. A source with direct knowledge of the Copyright Alert System (CAS), who asked not to be named, has told the Daily Dot that the five participating Internet service providers (ISP-s) will start the controversial program Monday. (more)

P2P File Sharing app/protocol by Bram Cohen (more)

Nicholas Loffredo: Intelligence Report: Vladmir Putin ordered a multifaceted hacking campaign to help Donald Trump. Russian government officials mounted an unprecedented public information campaign involving state-funded media, third parties and paid social media users to help discredit Hillary Clinton and promote Donald Trump, according to a declassified intelligence report released Friday. The report, which represents the assessments of the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency (NSA), follows Congressional testimony this week from senior intelligence officials on Russian efforts to influence the election. (more)

Virtual Private Network - a method to securely (sniffer-proof) pass data between networks across the public Internet. (more)

Winning At Life Even When You Feel Like Poop by Micah Dubinko ISBN:1544674988 (more)

Hunter Walk: Why We’re Paying for Content These Days (more)

Twitter is looking at becoming subscription-based (more)

Decide it's time for me to build a WikiGraph service of my own. Like MetaWiki (for Twin Pages in Sister Sites), except (more)

Andrew Ngleaves chief scientist post at Baidu. (more)

Martin Cagan: My Favorite PM Interview Question: whether or not the product manager is “the CEO of the product,” and if it’s even a good metaphor. (more)

James Somers: The Like Button Ruined the Internet (more)