Blaine Cook | |
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Born | December 19, 1980 |
Nationality | Canadian |
Occupation | programmer |
Blaine Cook (born December 19, 1980) is a Canadian software engineer, now living and working in Nelson, British Columbia.
Cook is the principal co-author of the OAuth and WebFinger specifications. He is the former lead developer of social networking site Twitter.[1] He has also worked for Yahoo! on the Fire Eagle project[2] and for BT Group as part of their open source Osmosoft team.[3] He was founder of collaborative text editing startup Poetica.[4] Poetica was acquired by Condé Nast in March 2016, and Cook remained with the company as a staff engineer.[5]