Blaine Cook (programmer)

Blaine Cook
Blaine Cook in November 2019
Born	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]

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". 16 July 2008. 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.

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" ^{[ dead link ‍]} by Kathryn Johnston The Times (February 8, 2009)