What if every time someone visited a website, that site’s owner could make a small amount of money? With just a few lines of simple code, you could monetize just about any content online, so that each visit to a page would result in a small payment directly to you. …

Product Design & Automation Systems Read Part 1 here In the first post of this series, we conducted a short survey of cybernetics, explaining the theory’s importance to understanding how systems shape everything around us, from personal health to disruptions of the global economy. For this post, let’s look at…

Introduction & Examples, from Personal Health to Product Design — Consider your body right now as you read this post. Are you keeping track of all of the processes in it that keep your heart beating and your temperature at around 98.6F/37C? When we live our lives, play with kids, go to…

I had a great time touring the huge CES 2023 showroom last week in search of products that align with the principles of Calm Technology. It’s been gratifying to see tech giants like Samsung, Microsoft, and Google adopt them in recent years, and exciting to see how these principles play…

Browsers are the lens through which we see the web. And considering how much the content of the web has changed over the past few decades — from low-quality images to constant streaming video — it sometimes feels a little strange that the browser experience has remained more or less…

Grant for the Web — Feedback from Creators One Year In If you haven’t heard about Grant for the Web yet, you should! GftW is a fund housed at the Interledger Foundation to drive innovation in Web Monetization and Open Payments. GftW launched its first-ever call for proposals in mid-2020, promoting innovation in web monetization, alternative business models for the web…

Puma Browser is one of a handful of browsers experimenting with Web3 integrations. The team focuses on privacy, payment integrations and creator compensation. In this post, we’ll be taking a deep dive into how Puma has integrating Web3 into its browser and the motivations for each one. Many major browsers…

Dinner DAO: How to Have Your NFTs & Eat Them Too! Unlock Grantee Austin Robey recently concocted one of the most practical applications of NFTs I’ve seen using Unlock’s protocol: Meeting IRL over a great meal. Inspired by the logic and tooling of DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations), Austin’s Dinner DAO…

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve joined Unlock as a strategic advisor! Unlock is an open source, Ethereum-based protocol which empowers creators of all kinds to monetize their content and create membership benefits for their communities through membership NFTs. Why Unlock Protocol? There has never really been a good payment solution for the…