Today Microsoft released a re-creation of their first web site, 20 years ago complete with a readme.html explaining how it was done and why some things are the way they are. I found this very interesting. First of all because it took me back to my beginnings – I built my first page in 1996 […]

I just published my first post on Medium about wearable technology and the disappointment of its current state of affairs partly because I wanted to vent and to try it out as a publishing platform. So head over there to read about my thoughts – TL;DR: I love the idea of wearables but the current […]

Today the good folks at TEDx Thessaloniki released the recording of my talk “The web is dead“. I’ve given you the slides and notes earlier here on this blog but here’s another recap of what I talked about: The excitement for the web is waning – instead apps are the cool thingAt first glance, the […]

Today is the start of this year’s Maker Party campaign. What’s that? Check out this video. Maker Party is Mozilla’s annual campaign to teach the culture, mechanics and citizenship of the web through thousands of community-run events around the world from July 15-September 15, 2014. This week, Maker Party events in places like Uganda, Taiwan, […]

Today the good people at Sapo released the video of my Codebits 2014 keynote. In this keynote, I talk about FirefoxOS and what it means in terms of bringing mobile web connectivity to the world. I explain how mobile technology is unfairly distributed and how closed environments prevent budding creators from releasing their first app. […]