Alan Kent's Blog

I am building a web app in my evenings.

There’s a moment I’ve hit a hundred times without thinking: a form with a little box labeled “Occupation.”

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is all through my LinkedIn feed these days.

At NVIDIA GTC 2024 (GPU Technology Conference) I watched a number of NVIDIA Omniverse and OpenUSD related sessions (my hobby interest, which I blog about elsewhere), but there were also some thought provoking sessions on AI.

With the integration of ChatGPT into Microsoft products, are we seeing the rise of Clippy 2.0 (the old Microsoft Office Assistant paper clip)?

I was just watching a CNBC news item on the success of Dick’s Sporting Goods (DSG): Why Dick’s Sporting Goods Succeeded When Sports Authority Failed.

How do you measure the success of a Developer Advocate, someone responsible for helping grow the maturity and understanding of a technical community using a product?

BigCommerce just hosted a twitter space titled “Headless E-commerce: Who needs it and who is better off without it?”

Karen Baker posted on LinkedIn about what ecommerce platforms need to succeed.

I have been hearing for a while comments such as “web 3.0 is going to be a decentralized web”, and I must admit to not paying a lot of attention.