- Chris Messina (open source advocate)
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Chris Messina 
Taken January 21, 2006Born January 7, 1981
USAOccupation Open Web Advocate (Google)[1]
Open Source AdvocateChris Messina (born January 7, 1981 in USA), aka FactoryJoe, is an open source and open standards advocate currently residing in San Francisco. Messina was formerly employed as an Open Source Advocate at identity company Vidoop and before that was the co-founder of marketing agency Citizen Agency. Currently he is working with Google as an Open Web Advocate.[1] He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003[2] with a BA in Communication Design.
Messina is best known for his involvement in helping to create the BarCamp, Spread Firefox, and coworking[3] movements. Messina is an active proponent of microformats and OAuth.
Messina co-founded Citizen Agency, a company which describes itself as "Internet consultancy that specializes in developing community-centric strategies around product research, design, development and marketing"[4] with Tara Hunt and Ben Metcalfe, who has since left the company.
Messina was featured with Hunt, also his ex-girlfriend, in "So Open it Hurts", in San Francisco Magazine (August, 2008).[5] The article detailed their very public and open relationship shared on the internet, and the lessons they derived from that experience.
Messina is an advocate of open-source, most notably Firefox and Flock. As a volunteer for the Spread Firefox campaign, he designed the 2004 Firefox advert which appeared in The New York Times on December 16, 2004.[6] In 2008 he won a Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for Best Community Amplifier for BarCamp, Microformats and Spread Firefox.[7]
Messina is also credited with introducing the "hashtag" to Twitter.[8]
Notes
- ^ a b http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/07/chris-messina-google/
- ^ Messina, Chris. "Heading back to Pittsburgh.". Twitter. http://twitter.com/chrismessina/statuses/839007483. "Heading to Pittsburgh. Man, haven't been back since I graduated in 2003!"
- ^ "Coworking, a cooperative for the modern age". International Herald Tribune. iht.com. 2008-08. http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/21/business/cowork.php?page=1. Retrieved 2008-11-25.
- ^ CitizenAgency.com
- ^ "So Open It Hurts". San Francisco Magazine. sanfranmag.com. 2008-08. http://www.sanfranmag.com/story/so-open-it-hurts. Retrieved 2008-11-25.
- ^ "Mozilla Foundation Places Two-Page Advocacy Ad in the New York Times". 2004-12-15. http://www-archive.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-12-15.html. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
- ^ "Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards - Hall of Fame". http://code.google.com/opensource/osa-hall-of-fame.html. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
- ^ Parker, Ashley (June 10, 2011). "Twitter’s Secret Handshake". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/fashion/hashtags-a-new-way-for-tweets-cultural-studies.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
References
- SF Chronicle: The people who populate Web 2.0 - November 5, 2006
- IE 7 vs Firefox - Webpronews - October 19, 2006
- SF Tech Chronicles - July 7, 2006
- BBC Newsnight, Internet Part II: Return of the geeks? - October 27, 2005
- SF Gate Technology Chronicles, Alan Saracevic, May 30, 2006
- SF Gate Technology Chronicles, Dan Fost, Ryan Kim, May 31, 2006
- Barring None, Geek Camp Rocks by Ryan Singel, Wired, August 22, 2005
External links
- Citizen Agency Website
- Messina's personal Blog
- BarCamp Wiki
- Pages related to Messina
- Thesocialweb.tv, A podcast Chris does together with John McCrea, David Recordon and Joseph Smarr
Categories:- 1981 births
- Living people
- American bloggers
- Technology evangelists
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