In a bold experiment, nonprofit Mission software developer Yorba Foundation is bidding for sustainable support through crowdfunding for its open-source email program, Geary. Founded in 2009 by Google alumnus Adam Dingle, the Capp Street nonprofit...
“Crackheads aren’t selling crack any more because it’s easier to steal phones,” San Francisco Police Commission President Thomas Mazzucco said last week. In the first two months of this year, 335 cellphones were reported stolen...
Your Democratic Party affiliation, $43,000 annual income and ’96 Honda Civic — they’re all public information. And your mug shots? Yes, those are public, too. Whether you’re convicted or not, sites can archive those photos...
CrowdFlower, a tech company based in the Mission District, boasts on its website that it has “the world’s largest workforce,” performing hundreds of millions of tasks for web-based client companies. Now one of those virtual...
Tech Tales, a program of Mission District non-profit Streetside Stories, helps students tell the true stories of their lives through art, and improves literacy skills in the process. The organization is tailored to middle schoolers who...
“The reason why I’m wearing a bird, everyone’s wearing a bird, is because birds, they tweet and that’s how they communicate with each other,” Jinen Kamdar from Twitter told the third-, fourth- and fifth-graders at...
