Michael Bleigh
Firebase engineer, web platform diehard
If Government Embraced Technology...
As an entrepreneurial software developer, I don’t usually look to the government to solve problems for me. Instead I usually try to think of ways to solve the problem (or start a business to solve the problem) myself. Sometimes, though, I stop to think about what it would be like...
Forward: Let's Start a Political Party
I’ve never really been very interested in politics. At least, I wasn’t until SOPA/PIPA came along. The issue demonstrated for me two very important facts:
This is How I Want Social to Work
I think that solving the dual problems of privacy and noise in social networking applications are very difficult. Personally I don’t think any of the major players (Facebook, Twitter, Google+) have tackled these problems entirely successfully. I did a little thinking and if I built a social network today, here’s...
Free-to-Play Could Crash the Gaming Industry
This post is part of my Where Games Are Going series in which I talk about the future of one of my favorite industries: video gaming.
Calling Infringement Theft is Dangerous
Note: I actually submitted this as an op-ed piece to the New York Times which is why it’s far less technically voiced than my normal work. Unfortunately looks like I’m not getting picked up there, so I’ll just have to stand on my own soap box.