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== Career ==
Cook is the principal co-author of the [[OAuth]] and [[WebFinger]] specifications. He is the former lead developer of social networking site [[Twitter]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9926813-36.html|title=Twitter techie Blaine Cook talks about leaving|date=23 April 2008|publisher=|accessdate=15 September 2018}}</ref> He has also worked for [[Yahoo!]] on the [[Fire Eagle]] project<ref>{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2008/07/16/yahoo-hires-former-twitter-chief-architect-blaine-cook/|title=Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook|date=16 July 2008 |publisher=|accessdate=15 September 2018}}</ref> and for [[BT Group]] as part of their [[Open Source|open source]] [[Osmosoft]] team.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.osmosoft.com/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050419122607/http://www.osmosoft.com/|archivedate=2005-04-19|title=TiddlyWiki|date=19 April 2005|publisher=|accessdate=15 September 2018}}</ref> He was founder of collaborative text editing startup Poetica.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://poetica.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010722035538/http://poetica.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2001-07-22 |title=Welcome to poetica.com |date= |accessdate=2018-09-15}}</ref> Poetica was acquired by [[Condé Nast]] in March 2016 and Cook remained with the company as a staff engineer.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2016/digital/news/conde-nast-acquires-poetica-twitter-engineer-1201719426/|title=Conde Nast Acquires U.K. Digital Publishing Startup Founded by Ex-Twitter Engineer|last=Spangler|first=Todd|date=2016-03-01|newspaper=Variety|language=en-US|access-date=2017-01-13}}</ref>
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