What Is This Norbum Of Which You Speak? Or: We Are All Silicon Alley Now, I'm Sorry To Say.

Something's in the kitchen with Jakob, and it ain't Julia. Lodwick (and possibly David Karp, of Tumblr, to which, incidentally, YM has yet to convert, our constant urgings notwithstanding) is brewing up some sort of open-source situation, having recently reserved a whole bunch of domain name plays off of "norbum". Via Silicon Alley Insider:

Norbum is an anagram for Mob Run. If you know your Lodwick history you know that Vimeo was actually an anagram for Movie. Jakob's new project involves crowd sourcing. Depending on what project this is (he's working on multiple) this could be his idea for a bar without alcohol that he hinted to on his blog. or some other open source project.

Word is that even if Norbum goes nowhere, there might be a bigger play in the offing. Stay tuned; as they say, the chicks have yet to hatch. We won't profess to speak for all here at ground central station, but the kid's sharp, real sharp, and you can slam your head against the keyboard all you want, it won't change a thing about it.

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