John K. Waters has been covering the information technology beat from Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area for more than two decades. He serves as Editor-at-Large for Application Development Trends and contributes to a range of online and print publications. He's also the author of more than a dozen books, including The Everything Guide to Social Media, The Everything Computer Book, Blobitecture, Waveform Architecture and Digital Design, John Chambers and the Cisco Way, and Diablo: The Official Strategy Guide.