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A Silicon Valley early adopter tech geek blog, written by Googler Louis Gray.

Tech news / industryGeneralAI / ML

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3,214 from 1 Jan 2006 to 31 Oct 2026
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October 2026

  1. Our Imperfect Decaying Web Desires Permanence
  2. Webnerd.ai Levels Up with AT Protocol, Newsletters, Audio and more
  3. Introducing Webnerd.ai: Classic RSS for Today's Web
  4. How Antigravity Brought My Blog Back from the Dead
  5. the Internet Archive
  6. Engaging In Toxic Places Remains Popular
  7. Vibe Coding: Automatic Transmission for Apps
  8. Filtertainment Eviscerated our Informed Monoculture
  9. true personalized feeds that you understand and prefer
  10. An AI Tech Revolution? The Solution: Human Evolution.
  11. Filtertainment Eviscerated our Informed Monoculture
  12. Vibe Coding: Automatic Transmission for Apps
  13. Engaging In Toxic Places Remains Popular
  14. How Antigravity Brought My Blog Back from the Dead
  15. October
  16. An AI Tech Revolution? The Solution: Human Evolution.

February 2019

  1. The Future of Web Q&A Panels Should be Cake
  2. 20191
  3. February
  4. The Future of Web Q&A Panels Should be Cake

November 2018

  1. Technology Designed to Help You Breathe More Easily
  2. 201813
  3. Technology Designed to Help You Breathe More Easily
  4. When the Hometown You Always Knew Could Burn Gets Erased from the Map -- Paradise is Lost to the #CampFire
  5. When the Hometown You Always Knew Could Burn Gets Erased from the Map -- Paradise is Lost to the #CampFire
  6. November

October 2018

  1. Comments as a Platform, Or Silencing the Trolls
  2. Comments as a Platform, Or Silencing the Trolls
  3. How 23 Year Old Me Got a Job at a Stealth Company With a Fake Website
  4. How 23 Year Old Me Got a Job at a Stealth Company With a Fake Website
  5. October

January 2018

  1. Real Valley Stories: Search Marketing With the Open Directory Project
  2. Real Valley Stories: Search Marketing With the Open Directory Project
  3. With Web at the Core, Chromebook Options are Strong, Plentiful
  4. Smartphones Have Virtually Eliminated Boredom from the Modern Life
  5. With Web at the Core, Chromebook Options are Strong, Plentiful
  6. Smartphones Have Virtually Eliminated Boredom from the Modern Life
  7. Linking Less and Talking More: Disappearing Web Mentions
  8. Linking Less and Talking More: Disappearing Web Mentions
  9. Space Fillers and Superstars: Silicon Valley's Divergent Career Arcs
  10. Space Fillers and Superstars: Silicon Valley's Divergent Career Arcs
  11. A Decade of Silos Has Throttled Open Content Distribution
  12. How a Google Home in Every Room Gives My Kids Answers All Day
  13. A Decade of Silos Has Throttled Open Content Distribution
  14. How a Google Home in Every Room Gives My Kids Answers All Day
  15. Why Silicon Valley's Real Estate Crisis Is a Present Danger
  16. Silicon Valley's Lost Year Blends Fake With Future
  17. Why Silicon Valley's Real Estate Crisis Is a Present Danger
  18. January
  19. Silicon Valley's Lost Year Blends Fake With Future

January 2017

  1. Your Steady Stream of Tech News Will Continue When Morale Improves
  2. 20172
  3. Your Steady Stream of Tech News Will Continue When Morale Improves
  4. Trump's Looming $100B+ Distraction and Productivity Crisis
  5. Trump's Looming $100B+ Distraction and Productivity Crisis
  6. January

April 2016

  1. Real Valley Stories: The SVP of HR and a Bunch of Lawyers Will See You Now
  2. 20165
  3. Real Valley Stories: The SVP of HR and a Bunch of Lawyers Will See You Now
  4. April

March 2016

  1. Stepping Out With the Fitbit Blaze Smartwatch
  2. Stepping Out With the Fitbit Blaze Smartwatch
  3. March

February 2016

  1. We Need Smart and Personal Streams, Not Just The Latest Updates
  2. We Need Smart and Personal Streams, Not Just The Latest Updates
  3. Running a Social Fantasy Stock Portfolio With Google Finance
  4. Running a Social Fantasy Stock Portfolio With Google Finance
  5. February

January 2016

  1. Listen Different And Learn
  2. Listen Different And Learn
  3. January

October 2015

  1. Layoffs and Loyalty in a Liquid Valley
  2. 20158
  3. Layoffs and Loyalty in a Liquid Valley
  4. October

September 2015

  1. Having a Clear Call to Action Can Drive Real Results

August 2015

  1. Having a Clear Call to Action Can Drive Real Results
  2. August

July 2015

  1. Tech Company Shifts Position Sunnyvale as Major Hub for Next Decade
  2. Tech Company Shifts Position Sunnyvale as Major Hub for Next Decade
  3. July

May 2015

  1. Preaching to Our Choirs and Setting Up Blinders for All Else
  2. Preaching to Our Choirs and Setting Up Blinders for All Else
  3. May

March 2015

  1. FriendFeed's Closure Another Painful Loss from a Vibrant Era of Social Media
  2. FriendFeed's Closure Another Painful Loss from a Vibrant Era of Social Media
  3. March

February 2015

  1. YouTube Kids: Smart, Mobile First, and Child Sized.
  2. YouTube Kids: Smart, Mobile First, and Child Sized.
  3. February

January 2015

  1. Adult Problems Stink. I Blame Drew's Cancer. #BlameDrewsCancer
  2. Adult Problems Stink. I Blame Drew's Cancer. #BlameDrewsCancer
  3. 10 New Year's Resolutions (for you) for the Year 2015
  4. January
  5. 10 New Year's Resolutions (for you) for the Year 2015

December 2014

  1. A Successful 100k Steps Leads to a Sore, Yet Happy, Christmas
  2. 201437
  3. A Successful 100k Steps Leads to a Sore, Yet Happy, Christmas
  4. Taking the 100k Steps Fitbit Challenge and Raising Money for Charity
  5. Tablets, Touch and Talk: Technology Through the Eyes of a Child
  6. Ingress: The Incredible & Addictive Covert Game Being Played All Around You
  7. December

November 2014

  1. You Can't Achieve Equality by Expecting Everyone to be the Same
  2. Our Smartphones Have Surpassed Their Role as Computers In Our Pockets
  3. November

October 2014

  1. Fitbit Launches Challenges to Push You and Friends to Go Further
  2. What If We Redid the 2000 .Com Monopoly Edition for Today's Web?
  3. Cloud Powered Near Instant PC, Mobile Upgrades Are the New Reality
  4. October

September 2014

  1. Automatic and Fitbit Data Show My Car Use Down 50% as Steps Are Up 33%
  2. Blogs Still Trump Streams for Longform Content With a Long Shelf Life
  3. Zillowionnaires Common As Bay Area Property Prices Boom
  4. I Heartily Endorse This Event Or Product
  5. Rachio Users Save 10 Million Gallons of Water Amidst Drought
  6. If Content is Portable, Where You Consume It Doesn't Matter
  7. Striving for Streams of Serendipity or Inbox Zero?
  8. September

August 2014

  1. Joining the Google Analytics Team to Help Make Data Count
  2. When Priced for Perfection, Startups Not Given Room for Error
  3. Achievement Unlocked: Throwing Out 1st Pitch at an A's Game
  4. August

July 2014

  1. Life By Numbers and Notifications
  2. Rachio's Smart Sprinkler Controller Brings Intelligence to the Yard
  3. July

June 2014

  1. 50 Top Startups from 2010: Acquired, Pivoted or Still Going?
  2. 100 Days of Solar Energy: Like Having Two Priuses on My Roof
  3. The Myth of the Billion Dollar Startup
  4. June

May 2014

  1. Staying Ahead of the Curve on Tech Trends Isn't Trivial
  2. May

April 2014

  1. Why Nest Protect Reporting an Emergency Filled Me With Comfort
  2. Automatic Takes On My Driving Data, Says Slow Down
  3. What's The Approved and Accepted Way to Make Money?
  4. April

March 2014

  1. We've Gone Solar. The Data Already Shows Green Benefits.
  2. March

February 2014

  1. If You Took a Photo, You're Sharing it, Right?
  2. All Product Experiences are Personal
  3. February

January 2014

  1. In Tech, In Order for X to Win, Y Doesn't Have to Lose
  2. Either you are in Engineering, or you are in Sales.
  3. Cover Makes My Android Phone Smart and Personal
  4. Books Step Behind the Curtain of Tech's Leading Companies
  5. Feedshare.net Debuts for OPML, RSS Feed Swapping
  6. First Friday Feature: MightyText: Web and Gmail Texting App
  7. January

December 2013

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  2. Now Commerce: Trying to Solve Demand for Instant Gratification
  3. How the Moves App Can Track Your Steps, Places and Commute
  4. December

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