Tag: the web

• Why you can’t rebuild Wikipedia with crypto

  February 17, 2022

  Programming note: I’m planning to take Wednesday off the newsletter so I can focus on a panel I’m moderating at Pivot Con in Miami. (I’ll be interviewing Parler CEO George… more ›

• The Mirrortable

  December 28, 2021

  Here is what angel investing should be: Send USDC from a wallet with your ENS to the entity’s ENS and get digital mirror assets back into your wallet. https://balajis.com/mirrortable/ more ›

• Notes on Web3

  November 13, 2021

  It’s pos­si­ble you have, in recent months, seen peo­ple writ­ing with excite­ment (or curiosity, or consternation) about “Web3”. https://www.robinsloan.com/archive/notes-on-web3/ more ›

• Reputation in Web3: Ships Built on the Great Flood

  June 19, 2021

  Implicit in the name ‘Web3’ is the expectation of replacement. In technology, versions are successors. When the new model comes out, we upgrade and the older one is replaced and… more ›

• The Next Social Graph: Splits, Supports and Attributions

  May 23, 2021

  So this new graph isn’t about who you ‘friend’ or follow, but who you attribute, who you support, and who inspires and supports you. Not as social gestures, but inscribed… more ›

• I studied the fonts of the top 1000 websites. Here’s what I learned.

  May 9, 2021

  This article was written by Michael Li—a data scientist and entrepreneur with a love for design. Previously at Foursquare, Google, J.P. Morgan, D.E. Shaw, and NASA. I have a confession… more ›

• Hong Kong police use national security law to block protest-related website

  January 12, 2021

  Sources said the force had started asking internet service providers (ISPs) to halt access to the HKChronicles website citing Article 43 of the law and its implementation rules. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3117072/hong-kong-police-use-national-security-law-block more ›

• He Created the Web. Now He’s Out to Remake the Digital World.

  January 11, 2021

  Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data. He has technology and a start-up pursuing that goal. Can he succeed?  “Pods,” personal online data stores, are… more ›

• The 80 Best Single-Operator Newsletters on the Internet

  July 24, 2020

  In 1971, MIT grad and computer engineer Ray Tomlinson sent the world’s first official email. For a long time, these were email’s two primary functions: direct peer-to-peer messaging (your friend… more ›

• Alphabet’s Loon starts beaming internet from balloons in Kenya

  July 9, 2020

  Alphabet’s Loon project has finally launched its internet-delivery balloons in Africa following a deal with the Kenyan government. It marks a significant milestone for Loon, once one of Google’s “moonshot”… more ›