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Hi, I'm the founder of AgentCloak InCountry and Layer3.Press. This site has articles I've written for Inc, BusinessWeek, National Review, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, CNET, and others. I was the CTO/CIO at CBS Interactive and founded six acquired enterprise infrastructure companies. Find me on X and Lin

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2026 5

  1. California’s High-Speed Rail Isn’t Projected to Open Until 2040. Robotaxis Could Use I-5 Sooner.
  2. Chinese AI’s Sputnik Moment
  3. Layer3.Press and prominent Brazilian dissidents unite to launch ResumosBrasil.com: An AI-powered, censorship-resistant News Hub
  4. The Coming Tsunami of Chinese AI
  5. Why AI Keeps Failing Inside Companies — and the Simple Playbook That Actually Works

2025 2

  1. Miami’s tech opportunity is to take on New York City, not San Francisco
  2. With Nostr, Jack is well ahead of what Elon and Zuck have learned about censorship

2024 2

  1. It's time to secure user data in your identity system
  2. Miami has become the Dubai of the Western Hemisphere

2023 2

  1. Introducing Summary.News - The AI news aggregator that summarizes by perspective
  2. AI is coming for the professional-managerial class

2022 2

  1. Introducing Syndichain - The censorship-resistant Web3 news aggregator
  2. San Francisco: The reckoning is here

2021 2

  1. The entire Bay Area has become a large declining tech company
  2. California’s lockdowns were as effective as a slow speed limit

2020 10

  1. Florida and Texas flattened the curve. California did not.
  2. The alt-cities: Why Tech, Finance, and Music chose Austin, Miami, and Nashville
  3. Florida and Texas are the new and improved Sweden: short shutdowns work best
  4. The Coronacceleration: The move to digital money and digital gold, while Bitcoin tracks the stock market
  5. The Coronacceleration: De-urbanization and the redistribution of technology companies
  6. The Coronacceleration: The transition from mass to personal transport and travel
  7. The Coronacceleration: A deepening mistrust in experts as we live through the five stages of model grief
  8. The Coronacceleration: Online-everything will drive growth for developing nations
  9. How to manage global data under CLOUD Act governance
  10. Building a global cloud with lessons learned from WeWork

2019 2

  1. Why doesn't Facebook simply filter out politics?
  2. Payments will be Facebook's regulatory waterloo

2018 4

  1. Why IT leaders need to meet the needs of the hourly worker
  2. Seven tech trends that will destroy globalization
  3. From federated identity to consolidated identity: a look at the past, present and future
  4. Why disrupting government pot policy is so much harder than the taxi commission

2017 2

  1. Don’t ignore active data, the trees in the big data forest
  2. Microsoft’s slow creep back into mobile

2016 6

  1. Software is due for a bundling event
  2. Why app development is going micro
  3. Facebook messenger’s ‘Rich Bubbles’ make dumb bots usable
  4. How Google’s AI paved the way for the next generation of bots
  5. Bits are beating atoms: the Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon shuffle
  6. What Donald Trump’s hammer would do to U.S. tech

2015 7

  1. If 87 Unicorns fell in the valley, would they make a sound?
  2. How Twitter lost the stream wars
  3. Regulating the sharing economy: how Uber et al will soon face new rules
  4. How tech is leading us back to a village-style life
  5. Push comes to shove: the new way we interact with information
  6. Goodbye, SaaS — hello, Containers-as-a-Service
  7. Small screens, big decisions: how mobile is forcing businesses to rethink software

2014 8

  1. The rise and fall of the full stack developer
  2. Why are PC sales up and tablet sales down?
  3. BMW vs. Tesla: a real live innovator’s dilemma
  4. Google's push past search
  5. The resurgent, post-Windows Microsoft
  6. Why can't a startup build a self-driving car?
  7. Mobile contacts are now the real social network
  8. Why the big picture matters on mobile

2013 9

  1. Email is now just another stream
  2. Rebooting the Bay Bridge: a classic rewrite story
  3. How to sell to the CIO, Part 3: Closing the deal
  4. How to sell to the CIO, Part 2: The sales process
  5. How to sell to the CIO, Part 1: The initial pitch
  6. In mastering machine intelligence, Google rewrites search engine rules
  7. To cloud or not to cloud
  8. Android challenges the iPhone in every category
  9. 2013: The Internet of Things, delivered via smartphone

2012 13

  1. Zynga is vastly undervalued
  2. You say Google+ is a ghost land? Time to revisit that one
  3. Bigger ads, bigger bucks? Facebook feels Wall Street heat
  4. Hey, Windows 8 doesn't suck
  5. What’s next for mobile now that adaptive web design has failed?
  6. Big data may be hot, but little data is what matters
  7. How expanding Twitter's pledge could end the patent wars
  8. How RIM could save itself: With a “super feature phone”
  9. 2012: The Year of the App-ocalypse?
  10. Under the hood: HTML5 or native? A guide
  11. How sites like MegaUpload make millions from pirated video
  12. Forget $100B! Facebook could soon be worth $200B
  13. Why Google is ditching search

2011 34

  1. Google Set to Surpass Microsoft in Value; Facebook is Next
  2. Is Apple Vulnerable in 2012? You Bet
  3. How the touch screen is revolutionizing TV
  4. Has content become advertising for advertising?
  5. Face it: Steve Ballmer is doing a great job
  6. Facebook is about to feature creep itself into a usage U-turn
  7. The verticalized enterprise stack: why HP needs to merge with SAP
  8. Good morning, would you like an Apple, Google or Microsoft?
  9. Why Time Warner should reacquire Aol
  10. Just like Google and Facebook, Twitter now Charges Brands to Reach their own Customers
  11. JavaScript: one language to rule them all
  12. How the carriers screwed themselves out of mobile payments
  13. Why Microsoft’s Office 365 will clobber Google Apps
  14. Is Apple’s iCloud an excuse to overcharge for storage?
  15. How Twitter 2.0 will make money
  16. Here comes Twitter 2.0
  17. LinkedIn IPO: It’s only a bubble when Grandma can buy in
  18. Can social commerce catch up with email?
  19. Zynga’s Mark Pincus: the ethical founder?
  20. The next new YouTube: Google’s opportunity to own media
  21. Google: +1 on Search Links, -1 on Ad Clicks
  22. How friend clusters could make Facebook intimate again
  23. Why sentiment analysis is the future of ad optimization
  24. FarmVille 2? Why Zynga needs to start making sequels, fast
  25. You have zero friends, Google - but one secret social weapon
  26. Interactive TV has finally happened - just not on TVs
  27. Why most Facebook marketing doesn't work
  28. How Microsoft's Nokia payoff could take apps global
  29. Ariana Huffington is right, and Rupert Murdoch is wrong
  30. The iPadification of the Web
  31. With Schmidt out as CEO, Google can stop copying Microsoft
  32. Google already knows its search sucks (and they’re fixing it)
  33. Amazon’s narcissistic app store
  34. Will 2011 be the year online video unravels the Internet?

2010 14

  1. A New Year's resolution for Google: buy MySpace, stat!
  2. Why Google needs the video digital-rights technology behind Netflix
  3. Groupon is Google’s $6 billion Facebook hedge
  4. You've got mail! How Facebook can avoid becoming the Next AOL
  5. How Microsoft might win the mobile phone battle after all
  6. It's collaboration software that's dead, not Email
  7. Adobe finally ships the real Flash for phones
  8. iPhone now as fragmented as Android
  9. Why worry about AT&T’s new rates? Your phone bill will soon be $60
  10. Google TV is Sony’s last stand against the Apple juggernaut
  11. With social game market in flux, what Zynga needs is Farmville 2
  12. Why Google can’t out-open Facebook with XAuth
  13. TV 2.0: Hulu’s flatlining, and the networks are ready to innovate
  14. The evolution of 1:1 marketing - Facebook Pages and the Cost per Fan/Follower model

2009 6

  1. Google's vertical search
  2. The Microsoft comeback
  3. The commercial open source failure
  4. Startup 101: Capital efficiency
  5. Video killed the banner-ad star
  6. Share beats search: more hits from Facebook than Google

2008 5

  1. Vertical search vs. Google
  2. An article is to a newspaper as a track is to an album
  3. Up next from Apple: Apple TVs
  4. Websites are so over
  5. Widgets: the future of online ads

2007 7

  1. A Startup in the Cloud
  2. Make the web come to you with feeds and widgets
  3. Startup 101: Staying funded
  4. Startup 101: Getting funded
  5. Startup 101: Customer "pull"
  6. Startup 101: Sell to users
  7. Startup 101: The platform game

2006 12

  1. Microsoft has operating system patents; Linux has none
  2. Googlology: Avoiding the steamroller
  3. Everything will cost nothing
  4. Blue is the new green
  5. Why corporate web sites stink
  6. Big company open source behavior patterns
  7. Three simple things Sun should do to win
  8. An open letter to Jonathan Schwartz
  9. Confounding: Sun vs. scripting languages
  10. Integrate on the Front End with Lightweight Architecture
  11. Enterprise SOA apps take off on lightweight architecture
  12. Doing big things with lightweight architecture

2005 4

  1. BusinessWeek article about LAMP stack, Slashdotted again
  2. The end of desktop software
  3. Web 2.0: Don't try this at work
  4. WS-Nothing

2004 1

  1. "Local" Web Services

2003 3

  1. Web Services: "How we gonna get these here machines to talk to each other"
  2. Application servers 2004: A big muffin in a donut world
  3. The next language