Aaron Swartz
| United States}} Chicago, Illinois| occupation = Software Developer and Writer| website =weblink}} | Aaron Swartz (born
1986) is a writer, web developer, and entrepreneur. At age 14, he was a co-author of the
RSS 1.0 specification. Since then he has become a member of the
W3C’s
RDF Core Working Group, co-designed the formatting language
Markdown with
John Gruber, and has been involved in many other projects.Swartz was the founder of Infogami, a
startup that was part of
Y Combinator’s first Summer Founders Program. Previously, he attended
Stanford University for a year, leaving to work on his company full-time. Infogami merged with
reddit to form
not a bug but failed to take off.In late 2006, reddit was sold to
CondéNet (the online arm of
Condé Nast Publications and the owners of
Wired) and Swartz moved with his company to
San Francisco. In January 2007, Swartz was asked to resign from his position at Wired Digital.
(1)In September 2007, Swartz, together with Simon Carstensen, launched Jottit, a website service quite similar to Infogami. Jottit was launched from bitbots.net, a project by Swartz and Carstensen. Swartz is also the creator of the
web.py web application framework, based on the
Python programming language, which is used by Jottit (and previously reddit).Swartz is an active blogger and has written a number of widely read essays on his
blog. Two of his more well-known pieces include
“Who Writes Wikipedia”, an article examining the contributions to Wikipedia articles written during his candidacy for the Wikimedia Foundation board election in 2006, and
“HOWTO: Be More Productive”, an article on personal productivity.Swartz currently lives in
Cambridge, Mass. He works on
Open Library and
watchdog.net and is on the board of
Change Congress.
Publications
- Swartz, Aaron. “MusicBrainz: A Semantic Web Service”, IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 76–77, Jan/Feb 2002.
- Swartz, A. and Hendler, J. “The Semantic Web: A Network of Content for the Digital City”, Proceedings of the Second Annual Digital Cities Workshop, Kyoto, Japan, October 2001.
References
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[A Chat with Aaron Swartz]
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