William Allen
Blogs & Writing
- Giving users choice with Cloudflare’s new Content Signals Policy
- Launching the x402 Foundation with Coinbase, and support for x402 transactions
- The next step for content creators in working with AI bots: Introducing AI Crawl Control
- Introducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access
- First-party tags in seconds: Cloudflare integrates Google tag gateway for advertisers
- Make your apps truly interactive with Cloudflare Realtime and RealtimeKit
- Preserving content provenance by integrating Content Credentials into Cloudflare Images
- Bring multimodal real-time interaction to your AI applications with Cloudflare Calls
- Adobe unleashes Content Attribution features in Photoshop and beyond at MAX 2021
- Showcase your NFTs on Behance
- What’s new in the creative community
- The Content Authenticity Initiative unveils content attribution tool within Photoshop and Behance
- Adobe Reinforces Commitment to Content Authenticity; Previews Technical White Paper
- New Features and Updates for Behance and Adobe Live
- 99U Conference 2020, Virtual Edition: Here’s What You Need to Know and How to Attend
- Introducing the Adobe Digital Index report ‘New Creatives Mashup’
- Make Your Mark: The Creative’s Guide to Building a Business with Impact
Videos & Podcasts
- Reimagining Content, Provenance, and AI with Cloudflare’s VP of Product, William Allen | S13E7
- Cloudflare TV - “The Future of Content and AI: Pay Per Crawl and What’s Next”
- Playbook Broken podcast - “Outsmarting Entropy: Shipping Beyond the Playbook”
- Adobe Symposium
- From ‘Idea’ to ‘Done’
- ADOBE 99U
- Design Leaders Meetup - Keynote
- Spotify Podcast Episode
Patents
- US20130254713A1 - Patent Application
- US 11,145,345 B2 - Granted Patent
- U.S. Provisional Application No. 19/255,713 - Patent Application
Press
- Cloudflare becomes the first major CDN to implement Content Credentials (CAI)
- Pay Per Crawl: Cloudflare’s VP of Product on Building a New Economic Model for Publishers (FutureWeek)
- Reuters: Cloudflare launches tool to help website owners monetize AI bot crawler access
- Cloudflare Blocks AI Bots by Default, Launches Pay Per Crawl Model (TechNewsWorld)
- Cloudflare rolls out ‘pay-per-crawl’ feature to constrain AI’s limitless hunger for data (CyberScoop)
- Cloudflare to let customers block AI web crawlers (Computer Weekly)
- Cloudflare Aims to Make AI Bots Pay for Crawling Websites (BankInfoSecurity)
- Cloudflare’s frontline defence helping publishers fight the AI bots (Mediaweek)
- Cloudflare is the Latest Tech Company to Adopt Content Credentials for Image Authenticity (TechRepublic)
- Cloudflare’s new tool wants to help you spot doctored images online (TechRadar)
- Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default (WIRED)
- Who Gets to Train the Internet? Interview With Cloudflare’s VP of Product (DIGIT)
- Cloudflare’s Balancing Act: Protect Content While Pushing AI (The New Stack)
- Why Cloudflare’s AI block could safeguard the open internet (The Current)
- Cloudflare wants to save the internet from the risks of “zero-click” content. Will it succeed? (IBM Think)
- Cloudflare launches one-click Content Credentials to track image authenticity (Cloudflare Press Release)
- TechCrunch: Behance’s NFT Support
- Cointelegraph: Behance adds Solana NFTs
- Inc Interview
- Photofocus: Diving into the Content Authenticity Initiative
- SXSW 2022 (Session page)
- Forbes Blockchain 50 (2022)
- Q&A With Scatter Brain (Substack)