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[[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> 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]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He is now awas founder of collaborative text editing startup Poetica.<ref>[https://poetica.com/ ]</ref> Poetica was acquired by Condé Nast in March 2016<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://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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