The Online Collaboration Authority, Web Conferencing, Live Presentation Tools: Kolabora. With Breaking News, Forums, Reviews And Expert Advice. GrowthHackers - A community-powered, growth-hacking knowledge base. Launch This Year | Make This The Year You Launch Your App. USV is now open source. 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 with the market" and "publishing the conversation". So, "The Conversation" it is. Here's everything: The app is written in python, using the Tornado web application framework and is backed by mongodb. A lot of people helped get this app / website off the ground, and they deserve some props here: Zach Cimafonte, USV's "Hacker in Residence" this past year, built the core of the app (and was the reason that I personally got to learn python + mongodb, which has been super fun) So, that's it for now.
USV - Union Square Ventures. QUIBB. Curation of the Web. Finding great content isn’t getting any easier. Search engines do what they can, but for many of us they’re not always adequate. And because we only have a few interests at any given point in time, we look for other ways to collect and sort through all the available material on the Web. And that’s where curation comes in. Curation has been going on forever, but I think we’re going to see even more of it in the years to come.
And I don’t think it’ll focus primarily on computers doing the work–there has to be the right balance between the organizers, community and technology to get curation right. As much as we rely on technology to guide our lives, there’s a certain comfort and trust when we know there are humans behind it, leading the charge. Product Hunt is a good example. Product Hunt actually led me to two other interesting curated resources: Happy Inbox (which tracks the best newsletters out there), and AddonList (which tracks the best products for developers).
Photo courtesy of YLev. Product Hunt. Happy Inbox. Addon List.