I only really started paying attention to TikTok when a friend of mine began posting TikToks in a common Slack group. (I’m assuming they are called TikToks, at the risk of having a George-Bush-like “I use The Google” moment). I didn’t really have much of a clue what TikTok was…

When building products we always seem to be in such a rush. I write this as we enter the eighth year of working on an idea known as Hyperaudio. We managed to build the Hyperaud.io …

In October last year it was my distinct pleasure to help wrangle the Decentralisation Space at the ninth Mozilla Festival in London, UK. There’s certainly been an uptick in interest since we first wrangled the Decentralisation Space in 2017 — a momentum we are hoping will continue to build. We…

Retro-mania? We live in times where the threat of dystopia seems real and ever-present. It’s at moments like these people look around them and see that things could be better and often try to do something about it. …

At the end of last year I helped wrangle the Decentralization Space at the Mozilla Festival in London. This was the first year such a space had been proposed, which made it all the more exciting. Decentralisation is a very diverse and apparently quite emotive subject. Spanning social movements, cryptocurrency…

This year I found myself more “available” than previous years and decided to commit to being a “Space Wrangler” for this year’s Mozilla Festival. I was warned that it was a fairly heavy commitment, however so far it’s been great. …

It’s funny how things turn out. Six years ago when I decided to blog about my thoughts about a ‘radically new’ and decentralised web; snappily titled “P2P Web Apps — Brace yourselves, everything is about to change”, I thought decentralisation was imminent. It wasn’t. And when I say ‘radically new’…

In November 2014 I co-founded Trint with Dan Schultz and Jeffrey Kofman. Monday, March the 6th 2017 was my last day as employee, CTO and Director of Trint. In many ways Trint was a commercial embodiment of Hyperaudio — a project funded by the Knight Foundation and the Mozilla Ignite…

Gotta love KnightLab’s Timeline JS — thought it would be a great way to document my 6 year obsession with audio-aligned text and why I’ve been a little quiet over the last year. View it in a new browser window here (recommended) Originally published at maboa.it on August 14, 2016.