Blaine Cook (programmer)
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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.{{cite web|url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9926813-36.html|title=Twitter techie Blaine Cook talks about leaving|date=23 April 2008|publisher=|accessdate=15 September 2018}} He has also worked for Yahoo! on the Fire Eagle project{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2008/07/16/yahoo-hires-former-twitter-chief-architect-blaine-cook/|title=Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook|date=16 July 2008 |publisher=|accessdate=15 September 2018}} and for BT Group as part of their open source Osmosoft team.{{cite web|url=http://www.osmosoft.com/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050419122607/http://www.osmosoft.com/|archivedate=2005-04-19|title=TiddlyWiki|date=19 April 2005|publisher=|accessdate=15 September 2018}} He was founder of collaborative text editing startup Poetica.{{cite web|url=http://poetica.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010722035538/http://poetica.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2001-07-22 |title=Welcome to poetica.com |date= |accessdate=2018-09-15}} Poetica was acquired by Condé Nast in March 2016, and Cook remained with the company as a staff engineer.{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2016/digital/news/conde-nast-acquires-poetica-twitter-engineer-1201719426/|title=Conde Nast Acquires U.K. Digital Publishing Startup Founded by Ex-Twitter Engineer|last=Spangler|first=Todd|date=2016-03-01|newspaper=Variety|language=en-US|access-date=2017-01-13}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080709021451/http://romeda.org/ Cook's Home page]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080518121215/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2008/tc20080514_269697.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_dialogue+with+readers "Why Twitter Matters"] by Stephen Baker, Business Week (May 15, 2008)
- [https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-techie-blaine-cook-talks-about-leaving/ "Twitter techie Blaine Cook talks about leaving"] by Caroline McCarthy, CNET News (April 23, 2008)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080529001019/http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/05/01/twitter-jump-ruby-rails "Twitter to jump off Ruby on Rails?"] by Anthony Ha, The Industry Standard (May 1, 2008)
- [https://archive.today/20121230170814/http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1035350780;fp;4;fpid;1398720840 "Busy Twitter a poster child for new communications"] by Stephen Lawson, Computerworld (March 14, 2008))
- [https://archive.today/20130209221111/http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8590 "Twitter’s to-do list: Become obsessive about uptime"] by Larry Dignan, ZDNet (April 23, 2008)
- [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article5683931.ece "Ireland not open for business, says Twitter innovator"]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} by Kathryn Johnston The Times (February 8, 2009)
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