Detroit Internet Club

04/05/2012

twitter is opening an office in detroit, dust off your 140-character resumes (fun fact: detroit is 140 square miles): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/04/twitter-opens-detroit-office-madison-building_n_1402644.html?ref=technology&ir=Technology

Social media fans get ready: Twitter is coming to Detroit. The company announced Wednesday it will open its first Michigan office at Dan Gilbert's tech hub "M@dison" building in downtown Detroit.

04/05/2012

if you want to look like a badass hacker at your local coffee shop, just mash keys on this site: http://www.hackertyper.com/

03/17/2012

a detroit internet encounter with mayor dave bing: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wellohorld/6842754244/sizes/o/in/photostream/

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03/04/2012

yo detroit internet club, if you're feeling appventurous can you download this highlight app so we can see how it works? it needs multiple people running it in the same basic area: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/03/myhighlight

02/24/2012

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqh1nqNLFn1r25scio1_500.jpg

02/16/2012

ooh snap. rad shirt. detroit pixelworkers local 313 with pixel art robocop: http://www.unitedpixelworkers.com/products/detroit-2-0

Yeah, we put Robocop on the new Detroit shirt. Part man, part machine, all cop, all awesome. Represent the Local 313 with a charcoal Robocop head on a...

02/01/2012

dig it. on facebook ceo mark zuckerberg's letter to the securities exchange commission before they go public: http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/01/facebook-ipo-letter


“Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected. We think it’s important that everyone who invests in Facebook understands what this mission means to us...

“We think a more open and connected world will help create a stronger economy with more authentic businesses that build better products and services…As people share more, they have access to more opinions from the people they trust about the products and services they use. This makes it easier to discover the best products and improve the quality and efficiency of their lives...

“Facebook aspires to build the services that give people the power to share and help them once again transform many of our core institutions and industries.”

Facebook has just filed its S-1 to IPO. Below is the letter from founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook's purpose, in which he explains "Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected. We think it’s...

02/01/2012

check this out, a huge detroit internet question. vince mazzola has been compiling the city of detroit's 2012 information technology (IT) budget. any guesses on the budget? ... ... ... it looks to be around $118 million, or, converted to english, a whole heck of a lot. i'm no expert on what it takes to keep an entire city in software (not yet, anyways, i think a lot of us would like to be :-)) but we've been kicking some ideas back and forth and vince just posted this webpage: http://newdetroitstyle.com detailing the budget items and suggesting some cost saving measures as well as some fresh ideas for a more user-friendly and interactive city, including the sort of mapping and crowdfunding/sourcing things loveland's been working on. does anyone have thoughts on this? ideas for what detroit can do to improve it's user-friendliness? this very much ties in with the code for america theme, and it seems like surely there must be a whole lotta room for doing things more cheaply, effectively, and intelligently future-forward. - jerry

02/01/2012

thanks so much to everyone who came out last night! that was an awesome time with an awesome crowd and an awesome detroit welcome for code for america. thank you also to st cece's pub for opening just for the occasion. here are a few scenes from the night if you missed it or want to live it over again.

top: internet clubbers and sundry guests party and hang in a packed but relaxed, dare we say almost tropical atmosphere, *at least* 3 photoshop layers and 50% opacity deep

mid: code for america's detroit fellows (prashant, matt, and alicia) pose with city government shakers including charles pugh and karla henderson, as well as al gore, inventor of the internet, and local businessman henry ford

bottom: a high-stakes game of invisible bitcoin poker over virtual ci**rs. gettem while their legal

seriously, good times. thanks, everybody!

01/30/2012

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01/27/2012

just sent out a lil reminder about the upcoming tuesday event with detroit's code for america fellows: http://www.facebook.com/messages/?action=read&tid=id.229711823781629 . some sweet sweet people coming out. share with those who care and be there and be foursquare

01/24/2012

http://www.facebook.com/events/204186609678102