John Battelle's Search Blog Predictions ’23: AI Gets a Business Model (or Three)
Let’s start our 2023 predictions off with some thoughts on artificial intelligence. With ChatGPT, Silicon Valley seems to have gotten a bit of its mojo back. After two decades spent simmering…
John Battelle's Search Blog Predictions ’23: Advertising – Netflix, Apple, Amazon, Twitter
I love advertising – particularly digital advertising. There, I said it. Was that so hard? Well, yes, the industry I’ve partnered with for more than three decades can be very difficult …
John Battelle's Search Blog Predictions ’23: Crypto, Tesla, IPOs, and Trump Takes a Bow
My first two long form prediction posts focused on big topics – artificial intelligence and digital advertising. This one, my last, will focus on a grab bag of market-related topics that have…
I want to focus this post on the macro environment for tech, startups, web3, and climate because that is where my head is at right now. I believe that sometime in the first half of 2023, the central banks around the world will start backing off the tightening that they have been engaged in as […]
In Lists and people on Mastodon I showed how I added a list column to the following tab of the Mastodon browser I’m building. That was a step in the direction of easier and more powerful list…
In the two years since I've posted I want off Mr Golang's Wild
Ride , it's made the rounds time and
time again, on Reddit, on Lobste.rs, on HackerNews, and elsewhere. And every...
In the past decade, we've seen the rise of powerful social networks of unprecedented scale, connecting millions or even billions of people who can now communicate almost instantaneously. But many of the promises that were made by the creators of the earliest social networking technologies have gone unfulfilled. We'll take a look at some of the unexamined costs, both cultural and social, of the way the web has evolved.
Bill Joy went to Aspen to think small. His latest little idea: dynamite the computer industry as we know it. Wired: What do you see as your job? Joy: I like to create technology dislocations. How much dislocation they ultimately create depends on how well they are executed by the organization that I have some […]
Pete Corey is an independent consultant, web developer, and writer based out of Denver, Colorado. He writes weekly articles on software development and his eternal quest to build Cool Stuff™.