# Mike Mccue

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ActivityPub is the next big thing in social

Today on the flagship podcast of overthinking thermometers:  The Verge's David Pierce and Dan Seifert discuss what’s happening in the weather app world, and hear from the developers of Carrot Weather and Hello Weather.  Apple’s Weather chaos is restarting the weather app market A Eulogy for Dar…

“I've Never Been More Optimistic” (Flipboard’s Mike McCue On the Open Social Web)

Mike McCue has seen a lot of changes over the years to the open web. He was an executive at Netscape, which helped liberate the web from AOL's walled garden; he served on the board of Twitter but wasn’t able to prevent it from abandoning its open API ecosystem; and now, as the CEO of Flipboard, he'…

AltStore and the Indie App Renaissance, with Shane Gill and Riley Testut

AltStore co-founders Riley Testut and Shane Gill are the perfect example of necessity being the mother of invention. When Apple denied the launch of their retro video game app, Delta, in 2016, they realized that indie app developers needed another solution — one that could bring apps to communities…

Why Open Social Matters for Creators, with Skylight’s Tori White

What do TikTok, Mark Cuban and Bluesky have in common? Skylight. When the future of TikTok was thrown into question in January 19, 2025, Skylight CEO Tori White and her co-founder/CTO Reed Harmeyer saw a moment and seized on it.  But they took a new approach, one that puts creators in charge of t…

How Social Media Platforms Use Regulation To Stifle Competition

Are we regulating the wrong tech problems? Many opponents of Big Tech cheered recent lawsuits that found Meta and YouTube liable for violating consumer protection laws and designing their products to addict kids and teens. But in the battle over user safety, is free expression going to end up as a …

Mastodon’s First and Next 10 Years, with Executive Director Felix Hlatky

As Mastodon celebrates its 10-year anniversary in 2026, the open source platform’s new Executive Director, Felix Hlatky, is focused on what it’ll take to make the next 10 years even more impactful.  That vision includes an overhaul in version 5.0, a new feature called Collections, and continuing i…

Building the internet you want to find, with Search Engine's PJ Vogt

Dot Social’s Mike McCue talks to PJ Vogt, host of the Search Engine podcast. PJ is also a co-founder of the Forkiverse, a Mastodon instance launched with the Hard Fork team as an experiment in community and a concrete way to show how a decentralized social network can work.  The conversation is a …

The Founder Who Made the Web Human: Mike McCue on Netscape, Tellme & Flipboard

Mike McCue has spent 40 years building the tools that made the web more human, Paper Software, Netscape, Tellme Networks, and Flipboard. In this episode of Deployed, he sits down with Brad Porter, the founding engineer he once recruited at Tellme, to talk about what it actually takes to ship hard t…

The Freeway Revival

This hour we’ve got the ultimate in sibling harmonies—twins! Adam and Jonathan Clayton sing vocals for their down home North Carolina band: The Freeway Revival. The band’s currently touring the western USA with concerts in Colorado, Idaho, California and Utah; but true to their name they didn’t fly…