Tom Coates
Tom Coates (born 19 July 1972) is a technologist and early weblogger[citation needed] based in San Francisco, California who has been writing plasticbag.org since 1999.[citation needed] He has written extensively about social software, the web of data, location services and future media distribution. He launched the Fire Eagle location service for Yahoo in 2008.[citation needed]
Coates was educated at the Norwich School, the University of Bristol and the London College of Printing.[citation needed] He worked at the BBC running an R&D team for BBC Radio,[citation needed] and before that he developed the geo-coded online community UpMyStreet Conversations.[1] He has also developed online communities for emap and was Production Editor of Time Out's website.[2] His professional written work includes film reviews for the BBC,[3] contributions to Time Out city guides and comment pieces on technology for The Guardian.[4]
From late 2005 until 14 May 2010 Coates worked for Yahoo!, initially for the Tech Development team with Caterina Fake, Jeremy Zawodny and Simon Willison.[5] He was later Head of Product for the Brickhouse product incubator.[6]
Coates' weblog has won a number of Bloggies including Best European Weblog (2001 and 2002),[7][8] Best Gay/Lesbian/Trans weblog (2001),[7] Best British or Irish Weblog (2004 and 2005)[9][10] and Lifetime Achievement (2005).[10] He also runs the online subcultural community Barbelith,[citation needed] initially inspired by the work of comic book writer Grant Morrison.[11]
He is also on the advisory council of the Open Rights Group.[citation needed]
Coates co-organised the London Hack Day in June 2007 with help from Matthew Cashmore from backstage.bbc.co.uk.[12]
The Evening Standard named Coates as one of the Most Influential 1000 Londoners in 2007 and again in 2008.[13][14]
In March 2008, Coates launched the Fire Eagle location brokerage service for Yahoo! at ETech.[citation needed] The service was opened up to the general public on 12 August 2008. Despite being well regarded as a significant contribution to location sharing and online privacy,[citation needed] the service was generally unsuccessful. Coates has since left Yahoo.
In January 2011 he was listed in Wired UK's Smart List 2011.[15]
He is an advisor for several start-ups including Lanyrd, the social conference directory created by Simon Willison and Natalie Downe.[16] He is the founder of Product Club, a company that bills itself as doing "New Product Development and Invention".
Coates has wired his San Francisco house up to Twitter as an Internet of Things-style experiment.[17]
References[edit]
- ↑ Coates, Tom Upmystreet Conversations: Mapping Cyber to Space, The O' Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2003
- ↑ About Page, Time Out City Guides Archived 29 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Contributions to BBC Film website
- ↑ Coates, Tom, Second Sight, The Guardian 28 August 2003
- ↑ Guardian Technology Blog 17 October 2005
- ↑ Web 2.0 Expo Talk Description
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Winners and Nominations, Bloggies 2001
- ↑ Winners and Nominations, Bloggies 2002
- ↑ Winners and Nominations, Bloggies 2004
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Winners and Nominations, Bloggies 2005
- ↑ FAQ, Barbelith Archived 16 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ plasticbag.org, 18 June 2007
- ↑ Evening Standard, 11 October 2007 Archived 13 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Evening Standard, October 2008
- ↑ https://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/02/features/the-smart-list?page=all Wired Magazine UK, February 2012
- ↑ Lanyrd FAQ
- ↑ Metz, Rachel (21 May 2013). "Home Tweet Home: A House with Its Own Voice on Twitter". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
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