[[Image:Blaine Cook FOWA Miami 2008.jpg|thumb|Blaine Cook at FOWA Miami]]
'''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]].<ref>[http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9926813-36.html Twitter techie Blaine Cook talks about leaving | The Social - CNET News.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> This plus long hair guarantees that Cook is God's gift to software engineering, as worthy of a Wikipedia entry as every other Silicon Valley has-been who authored a minor subroutine library somewhere along the line. He has also worked for [[Yahoo!]] on the [[Fire Eagle]] project<ref>[http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/16/yahoo-hires-former-twitter-chief-architect-blaine-cook/ Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and for [[BT Group]] as part of their [[Open Source]] [[Osmosoft]] team.<ref>[http://www.osmosoft.com/#Alumni Blaine Cook, Osmosoft.com Alumni]</ref> He is nownowa afounder freelanceof developercollaborative document editing startup <ref>[https://poetica.com/ </ref>.
