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Developers are the new architects. They reconfigure the city far faster than planners and architects can, but in more ephemeral ways.
“We made graphs.”
“In fact, Foursquare doesn’t really figure into any of these stories. In each case, people gave up their location through Twitter, which everyone understands is entirely public. Foursquare users confirm that they want to publish their location on Twitter every time they check-in. And people talk about where they are on Twitter all the time without the help of third-party apps like Foursquare.”
— The Truth About Foursquare’s “Stalker Problem”: It Isn’t Foursquare’s Problem
“That is good news for start-ups such as Metro Bank, which wants to open more than 200 branches in Britain by 2020. With such grand designs, isn’t Vernon Hill, one of the bank’s founders, tempted to build an IT system of his own? “I hate programmers,” replies this dyed-in-the-wool entrepreneur. “They only cause trouble.”
Secrets of the Little Blue Box
Remember when finding bits of information or people with a particular interest was difficult?
“A friend of mine who works in the post-digital Silicon Roundabout “I dress like a homeless person but I really work in experience design” space has asked me over a pint at the dotcom-work dodger’s pub, The Reliance”
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