AltPlatform is a non-profit tech blog that covers Open Web initiatives.
Our goal is to explore alternatives to Walled Garden products for developers, entrepreneurs and early adopters.
Founding bloggers:

Richard MacManus: founder of tech blog ReadWriteWeb & CEO from 2003-2012. Currently an author & tech columnist.

Emre Sokullu: founder and CEO of San Jose based social software company, Grou.ps Inc.

Brian Hendrickson: founder, high-res website imaging engineer at WebImageCapture, and Excel-mapping expert at BatchGeo.

Chris Aldrich: a Johns Hopkins trained biomedical and electrical engineer, and a strong advocate of the IndieWeb movement.

Advisors:

Dominik Grolimund: founder of Refind and previously founded Caleido, Wuala, and Silp; studied computer science at ETH Zurich.