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Twitter has raised the bar for recruiting the best and brightest developers, and without any real costs. Instead, the company's Innovator's Patent Agreement (IPA) appeals to a cause near and dear to many of today's best developers: Refusing to weaponize software patents.

Do you remember the days when Geocities and bulletin board systems walked the earth? It might be a stretch to say that these early communities were social media. Certainly, they laid the groundwork for what we use today and played a key role in how electronic communities came together. To jog your memory and provide some entertainment value, an interesting chart in a newsletter by law firm Morrison & Foerster here is worth a glance. Yes, a law firm.