The future of the internet that most excites me is also, in many ways, a snapshot of its past. It’s a place where the Neil Gaimans of the world don’t need to feed their thoughts into an engagement engine, but can instead put out a virtual shingle on their own small patch of cyberspace and attract and build a more intimate community of like-minded... See more

My view is the root cause of a lot of these issues is a deep structural misalignment between the needs of their underlying corporate structure of companies like Twitter and the needs of the networks they operate. There are other ways to build these networks. Email is a good example, which runs on an open protocol called SMTP that isn’t owned by... See more

“Cosmos is your space to dream,” says CEO Andy McCune of his new online utopia, built for users with a curatorial eye. Inspired by the endless scroll of Tumblr that once helped him dream his way out of his hometown, McCune wanted to recreate that feeling of imaginative escape. “It came from wanting a version of that feeling again,” he explains, “a... See more