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The Power of the Pixel

Published: October 23, 2017

A lot can be done with each pixel on a website, but only a few people have tried creating websites one pixel at a time.

Significant Websites

A Sense of Community: From Newgrounds to MLKSHK

Published: October 2, 2017

Communities on the web often formed around common interests and niches. As they grew, their utility began to shift to more mainstream elements

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eBay, API’s, and the Connected Web

Published: September 5, 2017

There’s this story about Ebay and Pez that used to go around. It goes something like this: Pierre Omidyar, the […]

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Wikipedia: The Story of Collective Knowledge

Published: July 31, 2017

Wikipedia is a free, online, user-edited and user-contributed encyclopedia. It is also a stupendously simple and almost inevitable idea, but […]

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When Rotuma Came to the Web

Published: February 27, 2017

The web distributes access, access to information, and access to one another. Access on the web is what brings us to small island off the coast of Fiji, where web pioneers forged a unique community.

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