It seems like every other day we hear a news story about a major site being hacked and users' information and passwords being stolen. A new service called onetimesecret.com won't stop hackers but it will make a common thing we all do much more secure.
How often do you have to send passwords, logins, or other sensitive information via email or IM? All the time, right? Well, onetimesecret.com is an ingenious way of making that task much more secure. more
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EchoDitto is proud to announce the launching of the new Women's Foundation of California website! Our team was honored to work with the talented and committed staff at WFCA to take their internal designs and wireframes to a powerful new platform for content management and communications. more
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Favorite Links of 2011
Stellar - Fueled by Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo, and Youtube, it's a super rich feed of only the awesome things you want to see from only the awesome people you want to seem them from.
The New Pornographers music video for Moves - Written and directed by Tom Scharpling, it features pretty much every alt comedy star from New York City. And it rocks so hard. more
Favorite Links of 2011
Google Reader - between the Android app, Reeder for iPad, and the website, keeps me up to date on the news.
Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange sites - one of the best ways to get help and help others.
9GAG - thanks to (our summer intern) Vicky for showing this to me, I waste a lot of time looking at internet memes.
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Favorite Links of 2011
Every web site that had a tribute to Steve Jobs when he passed away.
Daring Fireball
iGoogle
Best Books of 2011
The Passage by Justin Cronin
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Jack Reacher series by Lee Child
Best Movie of 2011
The Descendants more
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Ditto Culture
Part of the Ditto Contract that we have to be into cool and nerdy stuff (Ok, it's not...but it might as well be), so we thought we'd share with the world some of our favorite coolest and nerdiest things from the past year.
Kicking it off is our newest Ditto Developer, Tyler!
Favorite Links of 2011
AnimalsBeingDicks.com - animals being *awesome*.
XKCD - super witty nerd comics
Engrish.com - Translation flops.
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Yesterday, Facebook announced that they would begin rolling out timeline to all of its users over the next couple of weeks. Cue the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments. No matter how long Facebook users have had to play with a new layout, it seems there is no way to avoid the complaints. I made the shift last week though, and honestly I'm kind of fond of the experience already.
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Hi, my name is Apollo Gonzales and I'm the new guy here at EchoDitto.
For nearly five years now I've been developing digital strategies in the environmental non-profit space. When I started doing this work five years ago there were no members of congress on Facebook, and Twitter was a small niche service that few people knew existed. In those years the space has matured from a playground where college kids connected to one another, into one where elections are won and lost, and revolutions are born and witnessed. more
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Why do people work for change?
I’ve wondered about this since I started in an entry-level job for a public interest citizens group a long time ago. And I’ve thought about it more since hooking up with EchoDitto awhile ago. Check out the clients we’re working with. Together we are doing some amazing stuff.
The folks who work for EchoDitto – and the many nonprofit and for profit clients they help – have signed on to use their talents to benefit others. more
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The title of this post says it all - the innocently-named proposed piece of legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) must be stopped. While aimed at stopping online piracy, instead it proposes a scary set of rules that will in effect create a censorship bureaucracy and threaten the entire future of the internet as we know it. more
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Politics & Advocacy
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Nicco Mele was interviewed by The American Prospect about Facebook's recently announced initial public offering.
Blurb for Featured Block: It doesn't have to be so painful! If you've submitted a project for consideration in a Drupal.org project application or issue queue, you may have received a review that looks something like this, a seemigly-endless stream of errors relating to whitespace in comments, function argument documentation format, and horribly malformed "else" statements.
