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mschonfeld

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Developer evangelist @ Dwolla. I get to build things and see them come to life.

I'm a computer geek turned startup entrepreneur with an affinity for law, disruptive technology, and Chipotle.

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www.socialrank.com 11y ago

Graph search for TWTR. Filter by interests, location, etc.

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alexstechthoughts.com 12y ago

Thoughts On Braintree + PayPal Alliance (From Someone In The Payments Space)

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alexstechthoughts.com 12y ago

The Wide Spectrum of Being A Slave To Your Email

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alexstechthoughts.com 13y ago

Raising Money From Top Tier VC Firms Means Less Than You Think

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www.forbes.com 13y ago

A Case For Immigration Reform: How Beckett Simonon Built A US Co Outside The US

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blog.dwolla.com 13y ago

Dwolla Raises $16.5M from Andreessen Horowitz

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onforb.es 13y ago

Zombies of the Tech World: The VC Brain Drain

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ismybankopentoday.com 13y ago

Is Your Bank Open Today? (GUI & API for checking if banks are open)

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alexstechthoughts.com 13y ago

Taking the Leap: From Banking to Tech

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alexstechthoughts.com 13y ago

Can You Trust An Early-Stage VC With a HIR and EIR?

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blog.dwolla.com 13y ago

Dwolla extends Guest Send API, introduces multi-facilitator feature

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thehealthcareblog.com 13y ago

How Doctors Die

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www.guardian.co.uk 13y ago

2012 in America: the year in review [Awesome usage of CSS3]

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blog.dwolla.com 13y ago

Dwolla launches referral program

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blog.dwolla.com 13y ago

Deposit + Withdraw form bank: Now part of Dwolla's API

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www.forbes.com 13y ago

Are QR Codes Making a Comeback? ..An Interview with Scan's founder Garrett Gee

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d36xtkk24g8jdx.cloudfront.net 13y ago

Why is Instagram's new profile page CSS file > 130kb?

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alexstechthoughts.com 13y ago

Dealing With Jerks

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blog.dwolla.com 13y ago

Dwolla launches MassPay - Free Bulk Payments

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blog.dwolla.com 13y ago

Dwolla updates and expands API

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status.github.com 13y ago

Github is Down [Major service outage]

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sciencesoup.tumblr.com 14y ago

Space has a Smell

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continuations.com 14y ago

Yeah for Independent Judges Going After Software Patents

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www.ecommercehackday.com 14y ago

Solve the eCommerce Hack Day programming challenge to get a free ticket

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techcrunch.com 14y ago

Real Time Instant ACH Is Live Today [corrected link]

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techcrunch.com 14y ago

Real Time Instant ACH Is Live Today

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www.starbucks.com 14y ago

Starbucks Website Broken (ASPX Error)

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www.hackthemidwest.com 14y ago

Midwest / Kansas City Hackathon Going to be Big

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bitcoinica.blogspot.com 14y ago

Bitcoinica's official statement re being hacked. ~$100k USD stolen.

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bitcoinica.com 14y ago

Bitcoinica hacked. ~$100k USD stolen.

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Dwolla never had native support for bitcoin transactions. We've always been used as a gateway between USD -> BTC by exchanges such as MtGox, BitInstant, etc.

This is still the case, and is still very much possible and active.

Paypal only lets you send in up to 250 rows, right? We've set that to 2,000 - and also uncap it for trusted users... At 250 records, the fee difference might not be much, but at 2,000 - it can quickly add up to a nice sizable sum, don't you agree?

No no, it was actually sincere. I think that the UK's financial ecosystem is far more advanced than ours in the US... Money transfers are faster, more secure, and there's more of a general sense of progress...

There are a few services like this out there, but they use the "old rails" (e.g Paypal, ACH, etc), and they charge fees per batch, as well as per transaction. So yes, there are similar things, but all of them are wildly more expensive...

Well, the real point of what I was trying to say in the article was that Twitter had publicly stated that they're moving to an API oriented architecture - meaning that the web client is merely just another API client. That, coupled with the non-conforming-UX API key revoking acts recently, made me question the legitimacy of their statements...

You know, I carefully read Twitter TOS before writing this article, and there is absolutely no mention prohibiting the reverse engineering, or decompilation of their software.

Unlike others, Spotify for example, who explicitly prohibit such actions in their TOS...

I don't believe I did anything illegal here...

Actually, they do. Maybe not legally, but practically, Twitter owes many of its users to a handful of successful API clients. You can't just "use" developers (or, companies) to build up your user-base, and then as soon as it gets convenient for you, just ditch 'em all together...

I actually just rolled out a new Dev portal at Dwolla. He I it out over at developers.dwolla.com. I tried to make it more of an integration portal, so that there's something for coders, but also for non tech people trying to figure out if Dwolla is right for them.

Mainly tho, I think that the 4sq model of being able to try out every method on the fly is super important to devs...