<p>It seemed like the perfect time to join Twitter. A year and a half ago, with an IPO in the works, Twitter "acquihired" Washington DC-based Web design firm Nclud, known for its work for brands such as Apple and Oracle. Among the new Twitter employees was Nclud art director Tom Giannattasio. If he stuck around for just 18 months, he could have had a small slice of the biggest tech story of the moment.</p><p>He didn't. Instead, he left after just a couple of months to join edX, an online education initiative forged by MIT and Harvard.</p><p>But that didn't last, either. Giannattasio had something gnawing away at him. His friends started telling him that a side project he'd been working on for about a year could really be something. Perhaps he should start a company.</p><p>And so, after six months at edX, Giannattasio moved back to Washington DC from Boston and, with a friend, started Macaw, a business to call his very own. Macaw is a code-savvy design tool that brings Photoshop-like power to the Web, a problem that has been a bug-bear for about as long as the Internet has existed.</p><p><a href="http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/17/macaw-a-kickstarter-funded-design-tool-slips-into-the-space-between-photoshop-and-dreamweaver/">Keep reading...</a></p>