Blaine Cook (programmer)

Blaine Cook (born 19 December 1980) is an American software engineer. He is the principal co-author of the OAuth specification. He is the former lead developer of social networking site Twitter.^[1] He has worked for Yahoo on the Fire Eagle project^[2] and is currently a member of Osmosoft, a small team of Open Source developers at BT Group.^[3]

Blaine Cook at FOWA Miami

References

1. Twitter techie Blaine Cook talks about leaving | The Social - CNET News.com
2. Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook
3. Blaine Cook, Osmosoft.com

External links

• Blain 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" by Stephen Lawson, Computerworld (March 14, 2008))
• "Twitter’s to-do list: Become obsessive about uptime" by Larry Dignan, ZDNet (April 23, 2008)
• "Ireland not open for business, says Twitter innovator" by Kathryn Johnston The Times (February 8 2009)