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I just read Anil Dash’s recent piece, Endgame for the Open Web, and I think it is important.

We’ve been having the wrong conversation about privacy for years now.

Imagine you’re at an auction where a $1 bill is up for bid.

For anyone who followed the work of the Unlock Labs team over the years, it should be clear that we always focused heavily on making it…

Did you know that your Uber driver has 2 jobs?

Or rather… stablecoins, not Bitcoin.

About 10 years ago, when Bitcoin started to emerge in the broader tech community, several folks started to think that blockchains themselves…

There are many ways to think about Large Language Models, AI and conversational agents like ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.

In a highly complex world, where we can only expect complexity to increase, it is dangerous to centralize decision-making, especially if…

10 days ago, it was announced that OpenAi raised $6.6 billion in funding, valuing the company at $157 billion.

Over the weekend, France arrested Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram.

The definition of Intelligence is obviously very controversial; measuring it might even be harder and prone to many awful abuses.

For centuries, “ownership” has been a legal concept, en**force**d by well, … force, whether legal or arbitrary.

6 years ago, I wrote an article called The End of the Ad-Supported Web (please read it!).

It is probably evident by now, but the recent AI “generators” are very good at creating content.

Over the past three months, the original cryptocurrency returned to the front scene after 18 months of disillusion.

I am, of course, referring to the latest wave of “AI” products like ChatGPT, Bard, and others.

The internet is a big onion 🧅.

The Graph is a very ambitious and powerful web3 project.

Crypto had a bad rep.

The arrival of Elon Musk as Twitter’s new CEO has been a watershed moment in the history of Twitter.

In the Beginning Were the Protocols Rather than write about web3 again, I want to write about web1: the 90’s.

The debate around web3 and NFT is raging.

Let’s start with a little caveat: web3 is many things to many different people, exactly like web 2.0 was.

The H in HTTP and HTML is for Hypertext.

Blockchains are forever.

“Organizations of the future” are not the future of organizations!

Before 2008, I was a banker.

SEO has a bad rep.

If you’ve read Yuval Noah Harari, you know Homo Sapiens’ most unique characteristic is their ability to collaborate at scale, through space…

Or, an attempt at convincing my friends who care about open source software that blockchain and smart contracts are the future of our work…

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Every tech company under the sun (Californian or otherwise) is betting their future on Artificial Intelligence.

In 2017 the Blockchain world bloomed with many token offerings.

If you’ve even remotely ever played with open source software you are very familiar with the idea of forking.

The blockchain is a decentralized database whose data can be trusted because it is the sum of other previously recorded transactions.

I won’t travel by plane, because when they crash, a lot of people die.

If it happened, it will be remembered and found again.

Today’s web is very different from what it was 8 years ago.

In the late 80’s my dad brought a MacPlus from work.

The encryption debate is fascinating.

8 years ago, I started building what is now Superfeedr.

It’s probably obvious to everyone, but when we perform online searches, we’re looking at the past.

This post is the text version of a talk I’ve been giving at several conferences (and I plan to give it a couple more times).

To us, web developers, the web browser is a very complex application which implements countless protocols and specs to display content from…

To us, web developers, the web browser is a very complex application which implements countless protocols and specs to display content from…

This post is the text version of a talk I’ve been giving at several conferences (and I plan to give it a couple more times).

In the very last couple years, messaging has been one of the eldorados of the web: whether it’s Snapchat, Whatsapp, Kik, or even Twitter…

The future of digital identity should not be determined by one company In a pretty long post my friend Chris Messina shares his…

As you probably be know by now I’m a very strong open web advocate.