Author Archives: ChristopherA

I am an entrepreneur, advisor and technologist and have been working in the area of social software and online trust for over 18 years. I founded Consensus Development in 1988 as a groupware engineering firm; Consensus later went on to develop the SSL standard with Netscape Communications, a security standard which is now at the heart of all secure commerce on the World Wide Web. I later founded Skotos Tech in 1999, an online game channel centered on creating online communities. More recently I consult for social software companies such as SocialText, Opinity, and various other startups, and speaks on the topic of collaboration, trust, privacy and security at various conferences.

Since 2003 has been sharing my experience by writing in my blog Life With Alacrity, where I cover a variety of topics including entrepreneuring, collaboration, groupware, social software, online communities, facilitation, wiki, internet security, trust, cryptography, privacy, interface design, internet media, internet tools, and other topics that I am passionate about.

Berkeley Coworking Open House & Office Warming

This Friday, August 3rd, we are having an office warming and open house at our new Berkeley Coworking site at 2930 Shattuck Suite 305 (cross-street Ashby and near Asby BART Google Map & Street View) in Berkeley, across the bridge from San Francisco. We will starting at 6pm until probably 10pm. Please RSVP at Upcoming. [...]

Need Anchors for Coworking Space in Berkeley, CA

(cross posted on the coworking list) I have found a prospective site in Berkeley, CA to convert into a small, Citizen Space-sized, coworking office, with room for about 7-8 anchors, and about 400 square ft of meeting/conference room/mashpit common space (good for sessions up to about 25 people). It is near the corner of Shattuck [...]