Jon Evans

Jon Evans is the CTO of the software consultancy HappyFunCorp, TechCrunch’s weekly opinion columnist, an award-winning and widely published novelist, a journalist who has traveled to more than 100 countries and reported from Iraq, Haiti, Colombia, and the Congo, a University of Waterloo electrical engineering alumnus, and the founding director of the GitHub Archive Program.

The Latest from Jon Evans

In Praise Of Quick And Filthy

Jul 28, 2012 Jon Evans

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The Power Users Are Revolting

Jul 20, 2012 Jon Evans

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Metastasized Software And Life 3.0

Jul 14, 2012 Jon Evans

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Heads Up! This Was Google’s Apple Moment

Jul 07, 2012 Jon Evans

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Whither, Hollywood, Wither?

Jun 30, 2012 Jon Evans

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Only Messi Can Save Us Now

Jun 23, 2012 Jon Evans

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Notes From The Ebook Trenches

Jun 16, 2012 Jon Evans

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In Five Years, Most Africans Will Have Smartphones

Jun 09, 2012 Jon Evans

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Bashing Facebook For All The Wrong Reasons

Jun 02, 2012 Jon Evans

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Selling Software That Kills

May 26, 2012 Jon Evans

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In Which The Maker Faire Restores Your Humble Correspondent’s Faith In Humanity

May 20, 2012 Jon Evans

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No Shortcuts, No Mercy: The Bloodsport Of Recruitment

May 12, 2012 Jon Evans

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Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Xobot

May 05, 2012 Jon Evans

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Interview: John Robb

Apr 28, 2012 Jon Evans

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Voldemort’s Got Nothing On Jeff Bezos

Apr 21, 2012 Jon Evans

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Apps Have Got Your Back

Apr 14, 2012 Jon Evans

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When Code Is Hot

Apr 07, 2012 Jon Evans

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So Long, And Thanks For All The Quantum Research

Mar 31, 2012 Jon Evans

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Women, Tech, And Tone

Mar 24, 2012 Jon Evans

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The September Problem

Mar 17, 2012 Jon Evans

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