We’re in beta
Same mission, new door By Bob Rosenschein Last year I wrote “And we’re off!” and admitted we liked half our product. The other half — coaxing real people past that dreaded empty video recorder — still needed work. Twelve months…
Bit by Bit
Putting it together By Bob Rosenschein “You’re not pretty enough for show business.” That was Barbra Streisand’s mother. Barbra was a teenager in Brooklyn in the 1950’s — a father who’d died when she was a baby; a stepfather who…
And we’re off!
By Bob Rosenschein A funny thing happened on our way to product launch. We were happy with part of our product — the display component — but other functionality needed more work. We realized it is not enough just showing…
How I See Equator as a Helpful Tool for English Expression
A Review by Muskaan Agarwal By Ruthie Amaru As someone who has spent time exploring how language shapes our clarity of thought and expression — especially in the Indian context — I was naturally curious when I came across Equator.Zone.…
From Consent to Conversation
Rethinking Public Voice in Local Government By Ruthie Amaru The Foundation of Democracy When Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in The Social Contract (1762), “The people, being subject to the laws, ought to be their author,” he laid the foundation for modern…
The Power of Pause
Could Video Make Online Discussions More Thoughtful? By Ruthie Amaru Raichle’s Brain Networks: Action vs. Default Neuroscientist Marcus Raichle, along with colleagues Nico Dosenbach and Evan Gordon, helped map two distinct brain systems—each anchored in different brain regions and tuned…
Hello Equator.app
By Bob Rosenschein When Dennis Ritchie invented modern software along with Ken Thompson and wrote the immortal “C Programming Language” book with Brian Kernighan, their first pristine example was a program to display two words: “hello world!” It struck me as a fun start to…