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 is nowa founder of collaborative document editing startup Poetica [4].
References
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)