Justin Hall
Education
University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts
MFA, Interactive Media 2004-01-01 - 2007-01-01
Swarthmore College
BA, Meaning Context and Media 1993-01-01 - 1998-01-01
Francis W. Parker School
, 1979-01-01 - 1993-01-01Work Experience
bud.com
Current
bud.com
DG717 Incubator
2015-11-01 - 2017-09-01
DG717 Incubator
The Justin Hall Show
2014-02-01 - 2017-05-01
The Justin Hall Show
DeNA
2011-07-01 - 2013-06-01
DeNA
ngmoco:)
2010-03-01 - 2011-06-01
ngmoco:)
GameLayers
2006-06-01 - 2009-12-01
GameLayers
Creative Artists Agency
2005-05-01 - 2006-05-01
Creative Artists Agency
Chanpon.org
2001-11-01 - 2004-07-01
Chanpon.org
Freelance
1995-01-01 - 2004-01-01
Freelance
Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society
2003-01-01 - 2003-08-01
Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society
Skills
Summary
Justin Hall is CTO of bud.com, a California benefit corporation helping adults across America find weed near them. Hall has spent more than 20 years pushing the limits of networked media. In 1994 he launched his personal site “Justin’s Links from the Underground” which would grow to thousands of hand-coded pages. That year he served on the launch team of the first commercial web magazine HotWired. In the Wired offices in 1994 Hall registered bud.com because no one else had and it’s a great domain. In 1998 he graduated Swarthmore College and joined ZDTV as an on-air television host covering web publishing, a position he would soon lose due to content on his site links.net. In 2004 the New York Times referred to Hall as "perhaps the founding father of personal weblogging." In 2007 Hall received an MFA from the University of Southern California, School of Cinema-Television, Interactive Media Division. Hall then served as CEO of GameLayers as they built PMOG / The Nethernet to transform surfing the web into a massively multiplayer online game. In 2010 Hall worked with ngmoco:) producing Touch Pets Cats, a top-10 grossing iPhone simulation game about cat ownership. In 2012 Hall would serve Japanese mobile entertainment titan DeNA as Director of Culture & Communications for their western headquarters. As a freelance journalist stationed in California and Japan, Hall has been published in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, Vanity Fair, South China Morning Post and other leading international publications. In 2015 Justin made a documentary about himself making a web page about his life, it's called "overshare: the links.net story."
