Blaine Cook
Blaine Cook | |
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 Blaine Cook in November 2019 | |
| Born | December 19, 1980 |
| Occupation | programmer |
Blaine Cook (born December 19, 1980) is a Canadian software engineer, now living and working in Nelson, British Columbia.
Career
[edit]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]
As of July 2025[6], Blaine is working for New_ Public on a social platform for local communities called Roundabout[7].
References
[edit]- ↑ "Twitter techie Blaine Cook talks about leaving". 23 April 2008. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- ↑ "Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook". 16 July 2008. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- ↑ "TiddlyWiki". 19 April 2005. Archived from the original on 2005-04-19. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- ↑ "Welcome to poetica.com". Archived from the original on 2001-07-22. Retrieved 2018-09-15.
- ↑ Spangler, Todd (2016-03-01). "Conde Nast Acquires U.K. Digital Publishing Startup Founded by Ex-Twitter Engineer". Variety. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
- ↑ "🐦💙 He coded Twitter. Now he's building tech for New_ Public". Retrieved 2026-06-02.
- ↑ "Roundabout". Retrieved 2026-06-02.
External links
[edit]- 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"[link removed] by Stephen Lawson, Computerworld (March 14, 2008))
- "Twitter’s to-do list: Become obsessive about uptime"[link removed] 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)