Jolie O'Dell

Litany of humility

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‘A good Jew’ hashtag earns Twitter a $50M fine from France

venturebeat.com — Twitter's been slapped with a huge fine after refusing to reveal the identities of some of its more anti-Semitic users. A French court levied the fine; it had originally asked Twitter to comply with police requests for information about the racist updates.

PyCon 2013: A play in one act

venturebeat.com — Interior, developer conference. The crowd is 80 to 90 percent male, but that's not unusual in 2013. Women are still fighting their way into the technology industry, but since most of the female folks in tech don't know how to code (yet), their numbers are even sparser in this particular room.

Check out this awesome new tool for doing responsive design visually

venturebeat.com — Webflow is a fascinating tool for would-be web/mobile designer/developers. It lets you create beautiful, responsively designed websites in a simple user interface, then it exports production-ready CSS and HTML code. The GUI is like a kid-friendly version of Photoshop: tool panel on the left side; tool details and "layers" on the right side; plenty of fun with drag-and-drop.

SpaceX’s new Merlin rocket engine is cleared for takeoff

venturebeat.com — Merlin, SpaceX's new breed of rocket engines, has finally achieved flight qualification for use on the company's mission-ready rockets. The Merlin 1D engine was put through its paces: a total of 28 tests including 1,970 seconds of total testing time.

5 things you need to know about venture capital in Brazil

venturebeat.com — Brazil has been generating a significant amount of buzz in the venture capital and startup community recently, fueled in part by media coverage of several high profile firms "planting their flags" in the country with dedicated funds or investments.