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

  1. "Twitter techie Blaine Cook talks about leaving". 23 April 2008. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  2. "Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook". Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  3. "TiddlyWiki". 19 April 2005. Archived from the original on 2005-04-19. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  4. "Welcome to poetica.com". Archived from the original on 2001-07-22. Retrieved 2018-09-15.
  5. Spangler, Todd (2016-03-01). "Conde Nast Acquires U.K. Digital Publishing Startup Founded by Ex-Twitter Engineer". Variety. Retrieved 2017-01-13.



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