Blaine Cook | |
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 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.
Blaine Cook | |
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| 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.
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]
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Bon Appétit is a monthly American food and entertaining magazine, that typically contains recipes, entertaining ideas, restaurant recommendations, and wine reviews. Owned by Condé Nast, it is headquartered at the One World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, and has been in publication since 1956. Bon Appétit has been recognized for increasing its online presence in recent years through the use of social media, publishing recipes on their website, and maintaining a popular YouTube channel.
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The following is a timeline of events of Yahoo!, an American web services provider founded in 1994.
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Moxie Marlinspike is an American entrepreneur, cryptographer, and computer security researcher. Marlinspike is the creator of Signal, co-founder of the Signal Technology Foundation, and served as the first CEO of Signal Messenger LLC. He is also a co-author of the Signal Protocol encryption used by Signal, WhatsApp, Google Messages, Facebook Messenger, and Skype.
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From 2014 until 2024, Apple Inc. undertook a research and development effort to develop an electric and self-driving car, codenamed "Project Titan". Apple never openly discussed any of its automotive research, but around 5,000 employees were reported to be working on the project as of 2018. In May 2018, Apple reportedly partnered with Volkswagen to produce an autonomous employee shuttle van based on the T6 Transporter commercial vehicle platform. In August 2018, the BBC reported that Apple had 66 road-registered driverless cars, with 111 drivers registered to operate those cars. In 2020, it was believed that Apple was still working on self-driving related hardware, software and service as a potential product, instead of actual Apple-branded cars. In December 2020, Reuters reported that Apple was planning on a possible launch date of 2024, but analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claimed it would not be launched before 2025 and might not be launched until 2028 or later.
Diego Berdakin is a Los Angeles–based Internet entrepreneur and University of Southern California professor. He founded the social commerce company BeachMint along with Myspace co-founder Josh Berman, which later was acquired by Condé Nast to form The Lucky Group. Berdakin is also a notable investor in several technology companies.
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