USV.com is now open source
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We have had a great time building the new USV.com, and today we're open sourcing the codebase so that anyone else who wants to can see it, fork it, and help us build new stuff if they feel like it.
Since we launched the new site last month, we've split out the usv-specific theming and functionality from the core "Conversation" app, which we're open sourcing here. The name comes from the original blog post launching USV.com as a blog back in 2005, in which Brad talked about "having a dialogue wi...
Human Dx
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One of the amazing things that the Internet has given us is the ability for people all over the world to collaborate. At times we use this for silliness (supercuts of animal videos on YouTube) and at other times to create important resources for humanity, such as a free, widely available, continuously updating encyclopedia (Wikipedia).
We have also made substantial progress with machine learning. A great example of this is recent progress towards self-driving cars. It was only 2004 that the DARP...
A VC: Video Of The Week: William's Interview of My Partner Albert
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Bitcoin As Protocol
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We owe many of the innovations that we use every day -- from our favorite longstanding websites to the latest mobile applications -- to the existence of underlying highly technical protocols. Endusers don't need to understand these any more than drivers need to understand the workings of a car engine. Policy makers, however, need to understand the importance of protocols for enabling distributed permission-less innovation -- that is, innovation by many individuals and startups. For instance, th...
Teaming up with THE Football App
www.thefootballapp.com
Bill Gurley wrote a wonderful post last summer that detailed the differences between creating engaging user experiences on smart phones and on the web. He pointed out that these differences are not superficial and that in the past major differences in applications platforms, like the transition from DOS to Windows have led to significant restructuring of big markets. He argued that we are in the midst of a new transition away from the browser and back to stand alone mobile applications and that ...
The Real Test for USV.com?
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I think the new usv.com is as interesting a change as the blog-centric approach to the site was in 2005, but here's a question: we all know that the initial release of your product is a small first step, so should we expect to see iteration on the basic idea of the site? A little A/B testing happening?
As an example, if developing and exposing discussion/community is the goal, what about a variation where highly rated *comments* roll into the front page, in addition to posts? Draw people in not ...
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USV.com is now open source github.comWe have had a great time building the new USV.com, and today we're open sourcing the codebase so that anyone else who wants to can see it, fork it, and help us build new stuff if they feel like it. Since we launched the new site last month, we've split out the usv-specific theming and functionality from the core "Conversation" app, which we're open sourcing here. The name comes from the original blog post launching USV.com as a blog back in 2005, in which Brad talked about "having a dialogue wi... -
Human Dx usv.comOne of the amazing things that the Internet has given us is the ability for people all over the world to collaborate. At times we use this for silliness (supercuts of animal videos on YouTube) and at other times to create important resources for humanity, such as a free, widely available, continuously updating encyclopedia (Wikipedia). We have also made substantial progress with machine learning. A great example of this is recent progress towards self-driving cars. It was only 2004 that the DARP... -
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Bitcoin As Protocol usv.comWe owe many of the innovations that we use every day -- from our favorite longstanding websites to the latest mobile applications -- to the existence of underlying highly technical protocols. Endusers don't need to understand these any more than drivers need to understand the workings of a car engine. Policy makers, however, need to understand the importance of protocols for enabling distributed permission-less innovation -- that is, innovation by many individuals and startups. For instance, th...
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Teaming up with THE Football App www.thefootballapp.comBill Gurley wrote a wonderful post last summer that detailed the differences between creating engaging user experiences on smart phones and on the web. He pointed out that these differences are not superficial and that in the past major differences in applications platforms, like the transition from DOS to Windows have led to significant restructuring of big markets. He argued that we are in the midst of a new transition away from the browser and back to stand alone mobile applications and that ... -
The Real Test for USV.com? www.usv.comI think the new usv.com is as interesting a change as the blog-centric approach to the site was in 2005, but here's a question: we all know that the initial release of your product is a small first step, so should we expect to see iteration on the basic idea of the site? A little A/B testing happening? As an example, if developing and exposing discussion/community is the goal, what about a variation where highly rated *comments* roll into the front page, in addition to posts? Draw people in not ...
