Blaine Cook (programmer)
Blaine Cook (born 19 December 1980) is a Canadian software engineer, now living and working in London, UK. He is the principal co-author of the OAuth and Webfinger specifications. He is the former lead developer of social networking site Twitter.[1] He has also worked for Yahoo! on the Fire Eagle project[2] and for BT Group as part of their Open Source Osmosoft team.[3] He was founder of collaborative text editing startup Poetica.[4] Poetica was acquired by Condé Nast in March 2016.[5]
Blaine Cook in November 2019
References
- "Twitter techie Blaine Cook talks about leaving". 23 April 2008. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- "Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook". Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- "TiddlyWiki". 19 April 2005. Archived from the original on 2005-04-19. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- "Welcome to poetica.com". Archived from the original on 2001-07-22. Retrieved 2018-09-15.
- Spangler, Todd (2016-03-01). "Conde Nast Acquires U.K. Digital Publishing Startup Founded by Ex-Twitter Engineer". Variety. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
External links
- Cook's Home page
- "Why Twitter Matters" by Stephen Baker, Business Week (May 15, 2008)
- "Twitter techie Blaine Cook talks about leaving" by Caroline McCarthy, CNET News (April 23, 2008)
- "Twitter to jump off Ruby on Rails?" by Anthony Ha, The Industry Standard (May 1, 2008)
- "Busy Twitter a poster child for new communications" by Stephen Lawson, Computerworld (March 14, 2008))
- "Twitter’s to-do list: Become obsessive about uptime" by Larry Dignan, ZDNet (April 23, 2008)
- "Ireland not open for business, says Twitter innovator" by Kathryn Johnston The Times (February 8, 2009)
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