Justin Hall (born December 16, 1974, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American journalist and entrepreneur, best known as a pioneer blogger.

[4] Later Hall would become a freelance journalist covering video games, mobile technology and internet culture.

Hall went on to serve as CEO of GameLayers, which raised $2 million to turn PMOG into The Nethernet, a MMO in a Firefox toolbar.

The server and client software for the Nethernet was released as open source[7] and Hall went on to publish A Story of GameLayers, "open-sourcing our business process".

[10] In September 2017, Hall began work as co-founder & Chief Technology Officer for bud.com, a California benefit corporation delivering recreational cannabis, built on a domain name he registered in 1994.