Blaine Cook (programmer) explained
| Blaine Cook |
| Birth Date: | December 19, 1980 |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Occupation: | programmer |
Blaine Cook (born December 19, 1980) is a Canadian software engineer, now living and working in Nelson, British Columbia.
Career
Cook 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, and Cook remained with the company as a staff engineer.[5]
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)
Notes and References
- Web site: Twitter techie Blaine Cook talks about leaving. 23 April 2008. 15 September 2018.
- Web site: Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook. 16 July 2008 . 15 September 2018.
- Web site: TiddlyWiki. https://web.archive.org/web/20050419122607/http://www.osmosoft.com/. 2005-04-19. 19 April 2005. 15 September 2018.
- Web site: Welcome to poetica.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20010722035538/http://poetica.com/ . dead . 2001-07-22 . 2018-09-15.
- News: Conde Nast Acquires U.K. Digital Publishing Startup Founded by Ex-Twitter Engineer. Spangler. Todd. 2016-03-01. Variety. en-US. 2017-01-13.
