Occasionally I end up in the Press. Here's an assortment of those times.

2015

• 2015-06-23. Apple’s Taylor Swift Retreat Highlights New Corporate Crisis-Management Playbook. The Wrap. 
• 2015-04-30. Hashtags are the new female-friendly bumper sticker. SF Chronicle. PDF
• 2015-04-30. The secret to creative vision is paying attention to what your eyes CAN’T see. Here’s how (Story reprint). Washington Post. 
• 2015-04-13. I'm too old for Instagram. Pando Daily. 
• 2015-04-06. The #hashtag is about to spread to one billion users. But why was it created? Gizmodo Brazil. 
• 2015-04-04. Hashtag creator. 9News Today Show. 
• 2015-03-31. Will Instagram shut down this 17-year-old's app? CNN Money 
• 2015-03-18. Hashtag is the new hyperlink: Chris Messina. Khaleej Times. 
• 2015-02-19. Chris Messina: Life After Google (Part 1). ThinkApps. 
• 2015-02-13. Polyamorous relationships by the numbers. KFI640. 
• 2015-02-12. Redefining Love and Marriage in the 21st Century. Huffington Post. 
• 2015-02-09. Tech guru says era of “big dating” leads to “non monogamy”. Talk 770. 
• 2015-02-06. Hashtag Inventor Chris Messina Unveils The “Theory Of Non-Monogamy”. US Markets Daily 
• 2015-02-02. Should We All Be In 'Monogamish' Relationships? Yahoo! Health. 
• 2015-02-04. Hashtag Inventor Says Non-Monogamy Is Way of the Future. ABC News/Good Morning America 
• 2015-01-31. Inventor of Twitter hashtag explains why he chose 'non-monogamy' - and claims ditching regular relationships is a 'rational economic response' to world ruled by smartphones. DailyMail
• 2015-01-29. Why I choose non-monogamy. CNN Money.
• 2015-01-27. CNN Explores The Druggy, Trippy, And Poly Side Of Silicon Valley Geekdom. SFist. 
• 2015-01-25. I have a fiancé, a girlfriend and two boyfriends. Sex, Drugs & Silicon Valley. CNN Money. 
• 2015-01-21. The new era of hashtag activism. The Kernel 
• 2015-01-09. The power of hashtags in social media. USA Today

2014

• 2014-12-22. #Hashtag This: How the Twitter Hashtag Caught Fire in San Diego. Xconomy. 
• 2014-12-13. Inventor hashtag in Twitter Revolution never imagined his invention. W Radio 
• 2014-12-10. 25 SF INSTAGRAMS YOU NEED TO FOLLOW RIGHT NOW .Thrillist. 
• 2014-12-08. Managing your digital identity. MSNBC. 
• 2014-12-01. Confessions of a former Google employee. News.com.au. 
• 2014-12-01. Former Google+ designer slams the service for being 'Facebook lite'. Mashable. 
• 2014-12-01. Former Google+ engineer: We f***ed up. CNN. 
• 2014-11-29. Ex-Googler Who Help Build Google+ Demolishes The Failed Social Network In A Scathing Essay. Business Insider. 
• 2014-11-12. Chris Messina fala sobre a 'beleza da hashtag'; confira. TechTudo. 
• 2014-11-07. 7 Local Instagrams You Should Follow Right Now. 7x7 
• 2014-09-02. The History of Hashtags in Social Media Marketing [INFOGRAPHIC]. MediaBistro. 
• 2014-08-30. Carnegie Mellon grad's tweak to tweets turns 7. Pittsburgh Tribune. 
• 2014-08-22. #OriginStory. CMU News. 
• 2014-06-04. #History: the journey and many faces of the hash symbol — New Statesmen.

2013 

• 2013-12-11. It's a #hashtag takeover — Star Tribune. 
• 2013-12-04. Twitter Hashtag Inventor Explains Why Patenting It Would Have Been The Wrong Thing To Do — TechDirt. 
• 2013-11-21. The Inventor Of The Twitter Hashtag Explains Why He Didn't Patent It — Business Insider. 
• 2013-11-08. Good Question: How Did The Pound Sign Become A Hashtag? — CBS 
• 2013-11-07. Quinn: Twitter needs to balance users, Wall Street. — San Jose Merc 
• 2013-11-07. Today’s Scuttlebot: As Twitter Trades, Honoring the ‘Hashtag Godfather’. — New York Times 
• 2013-11-07. The Secret Behind Twitter's IPO: How The Hashtag Became A Worldwide Phenomenon — Forbes. 
• 2013-10-03. How Twitter’s Hashtag Came to Be. WSJ 
• 2013-09-25. Hashtag Inventor Responds To Justin Timberlake And Fallon Skit: 'What Have I Done?' MTV News. 
• 2013-08-21. Burned out: tech money is harshing Burning Man's anti-capitalist vibe. The Verge.
• 2013-08-19. The man behind the hashtag revolution. Telegraph of India. 

2011

• 2011-06-28. Online Climate Explored at Google. YouTube video of my talk. 
• 2011-06-15. 4 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Twitter #hashtag PR Daily. 
• 2011-06-10. Twitter's Secret Handshake. NYTimes Fashion. 
• 2011-06-06. Hackers for a good cause — Mercury News. 
• 2011-01-14. What Makes a Good Hashtag? It’s Not Science. GigaOM.

2010

• 2010-11-13. Singel-Minded: How Facebook Could Beat Google to Win the Net. Wired. 
• 2010-10-07. McClure Adds 500 Mentors to 500 Startups - GigaOM 
• 2010-08-27. "Google Adds Rohit Khare to Social Team With Angstro Buy" - GigaOM 
• 2010-08-27. "Google Buys Innovative Startup Angstro to Help Build GoogleMe" - ReadWriteWeb. 
• 2010-07-02. "Rumor: Google building social networking site to compete with Facebook" - Jessica Guynn, LA Times. 
• 2010-06-26. "Google will be one node on a vast social web" - TechRadar/.NET Magazine.
• 2010-05-13. Who Controls Identity on the Web? - Technology Review. 
• 2010-05-10. Report: Google rethinks its social strategy with search for new exec - VentureBeat. 
• 2010-05-10. Google Seeks to Hire “Head of Social” - GigaOM. 
• 2010-04-30. The Short and Illustrious History of Twitter #Hashtags - GigaOm. 
• 2010-04-26. The future of Facebook - Forbes. 
• 2010-04-24. OAuth Is the New Hotness in Identity Management - eWeek. 
• 2010-04-23. More open than thou: Blogger battle rages over new Facebook tools - VentureBeat. 
• 2010-04-23. Facebook’s Open Graph: It Depends On What The Meaning Of The Word “Open” Is - TechCrunch.
• 2010-04-23. Are Like Buttons Evil? The Open Web Reacts To Facebook’s Not-So-Open Graph - TechCrunch. 
• 2010-04-18. Facebook Seeps Onto Other Web Sites By Miguel Helft. New York Times.
• 2010-04-16. A patent on word of mouth? in IP Review. 
• 2010-04-14. At Google, business interests may clash with Open Web ideals - BND.
• 2010-04-10. O'Brien: Google's commitment to the Open Web. By Chris O'Brien. Mercury News.
• 2010-04-05. Social Media May Get Much More Convenient for Businesses - WebProNews. 
• 2010-03-26. Almost Famous: Chris Messina of Google by Drake Martinet. All Things D/Wall Street Journal. 
• 2010-03-17. Linus Torvalds named most influential open source blogger. Network World.  
• 2010-03-16. SXSW: Are You a Player Or a Fan? - Josh Rose for Huffington Post. 
• 2010-03-14. SXSW: Life Is But a Stream - Josh Rose for Huffington Post. 
• 2010-03-13. #SXSW: Getting Streamy With Chris Messina and ActivityStrea.ms - CMS Wire. 
• 2010-03-01. Swimming Upstream: 'Salmon,' Google's Open Source Social Web Aggregator - MediaPost.
• 2010-20-26. Facebook's news-feed patent could mean lawsuits - CNN. 
• 2010-02-13. Google Dumps Aardvark in Google Labs But to What End? - eWeek 
• 2010-02-04. Google struggles with social skills - CNET. 
• 2010-01-26. Google beefing up new 'Social Web Team' - CNET. 
• 2010-01-26. Will Creating a SWAT Team Help Google Get Social? - GigaOm 
• 2010-01-08. Google Snatches Up Open Web Advocate Chris Messina on Softpedia.
• 2010-01-07. How Chris Messina Got a Job at Google by Marshall Kirkpatrick for ReadWriteWeb
• 2010-01-07. Google nets another high-profile hire for open Web strategy by Jessica Guynn on the L.A. Times Tech Blog
• 2010-01-07. Mr. Open Web Goes to Google by Liz Gannes for GigaOM
• 2010-01-07. Happy Birthday, Chris Messina, And Enjoy Advocating The Open Web At Google by Robin Wauters for TechCrunch
• 2010-01-01. Men in the News: Evan Williams & Biz Stone by Richard Waters for the Financial Times

2009

• 2009-12-29. My Wish for 2010: A Personal Dashboard for the Social Web by Liz Gannes for GigaOm.
• 2009-12-28. How Facebook is struggling to lay out Zuckerberg's vision by Bobbie Johnson (PDF). Related article.
• 2009-12-21. Twitter API Is Becoming Far More than Just an API for Twitter by Scott Gilbertson for Wired.
• 2009-12-14. Facebook Moves to Standardize and Own Customer IDs by Douglas MacMillan for BusinessWeek. (PDF).
• 2009-09-11. Messina and Recordon explain OpenID authentication and .gov websites by Alexander Howard (@digiphile)
• 2009-09-09. OpenID biggest government boost yet for open source by Dana Blankenhorn for ZDNet.
• 2009-09-09. Tech Firms Rally Around OpenID for Govt. Access By Chloe Albanesius for PC Magazine.
• 2009-09-09. Feds to Let Citizens Log In With Yahoo, Google, Paypal Accounts by Michael Calore for Wired.
• 2009-08-31. Polished Google browser widens threat by Richard Waters and David Gelles in the Financial Times.
• 2009-07-03. What friends are for by David Gelles in the Financial Times.
• 2009-04-27. The latest from Facebook: 'Open Stream API' by Caroline McCarthy for CNET news.
• 2009-02-22. Interview with BBC for Digital Planet podcast: Easy login plans gather pace.
• 2009-02-15. Baltimore Sun: Co-working: sharing office comforts, not job by Gus G. Sentementes.

2008

• 2008-09-18. Worldchanging: Worldchanging Interview: Chris Messina and Ivan Storck on Green Coworking by Britt Bravo.
• 2008-09-08. Washington Post: Bytes of Life by Monica Hesse about self-tracking.
• 2008-09-04. Mentioned in the Editor & Publish story: Knight Foundation Launches $5 Million Knight News Challenge.
• 2008-08. San Francisco Magazine: So Open It Hurts (transcription) by Bernice Yeung about coworking, me and my relationship with Tara Hunt.
• 2008-07-23. Quoted in WSJ's MarketWatch story: TrustMe Announces Support for OAuth Open Protocol.
• 2008-05-26. Loosely regulated model has helped BarCamp spread wide by Namitha Jagadeesh, LiveMint, a division of the Wall Street Journal. Related story.
• 2008-04-17. Open-source users assess Sun update of MySQL by Kathleen Lau, ComputerWorld Canada. The Standard.

2007

• 2007-10-12. The Next Social Network? It's Web 2.0, And It Knows Where You Are by Michael Calore.
• 2007-10-18. The Money Times: Apple Announces SDK for iPhone by Daisy Sarma.
• 2007-10-22. Wired News. Google, Jaiku and Being Connected: Red Alert or Blue Heaven? by Michael Calore.