In the last few years my work has focused on creating
open source infrastructure for the "social web." A user-centered networking
layer that gives people more control over their digital identities across a
wide variety of computer-mediated contexts (e.g. email, IM, e-commerce, shared
spaces, and enterprise directories), especially those involving social
networks.
I'm currently CEO of Parity Communications (parityinc.net), co-creator of
SocialPhysics.org, project lead of the Eclipse Foundation's Higgins Trust
Framework project (eclipse.org/Higgins), and co-creator of IdentityGang.org.
I've been involved in the process of inventing software, consulting, building
companies, and launching new products for the past 20+ years in partnership
with Apple, Verizon, IBM, Xerox, Agfa, Fidelity, the DoD, the Berkman Center
and others.
Previously I was president of Bitstream (NASDAQ:BITS) and CEO and co-founder
of Archetype, Inc. and Lightspeed Computers before that. I've been honored to
participate in a number of standards efforts over the years, was granted the
Seybold Industry Vision award in '99, did research at the Media Lab in the
early 80's, and graduated from MIT.