Journalist and author John K. Waters has been covering the information technology beat from Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area for a range of print and online media for more than 20 years. As Editor-at-Large for Application Development Trends he writes the WatersWorks blog and contributes news and feature stories about enterprise software development, management, and security. He also writes software reviews for Law Technology News and contributes regularly to Campus Technology and T.H.E. Journal. His work has appeared in Redmond, Virtualization Review, Microsoft Certified Professional, The UK Register, CIO, Tech Target, and many others. John has also written more than a dozen books, including a new entry in the Adams Media "Everything" series: The Everything Guide to Social Media, which was published in November 2010. Early in his career, he wrote numerous computer game guides, including the original strategy guide for the blockbuster "Diablo." And he co-scripted the documentary film, Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance.