Dukes of URL
I write a column for Web Developer Magazine called The Dukes of URL. Every other month I interview one of the top web developers, visionaries, scientists or pioneers of the World Wide Web.
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 Steve Bush is group program manager at Microsoft.com. He
is a key leader on the team that is planning and building
Microsoft's ever-growing presence on the World Wide Web.
Bush's involvement with Microsoft's Web site began with the
introduction of Windows 95, and is continuing as Microsoft
integrates Web technology into the upcoming Windows 97
release. We discussed with Steve how the Microsoft site
combines Web technologies with customer focus to grow its
position in the Internet market.
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 Adam Curry is the CTO of Think New Ideas Inc. He began his career in multimedia as a well-known VJ (video disk jockey) on MTV. Combining his experience in show business, a faith in the future of the Internet as a new medium, and a background in computing he started On Ramp, Inc, a website development business. Leveraging the drawing power of a site called a href="http://www.metaverse.com/">The Metaverse which is an online mecca for music fans., he and his partner, Ron Bloom, acquired major corporate accounts. Now with Think, Inc. his organization provides the full range of multimedia and interactive technologies to some of the major players on the Web. Web Developer's Dale Kirby spoke to Curry about multimedia, interactivity and other elements of successful website development.
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 Dan Shafer is the Director of Technology and Senior Webmaster at Salon Internet a highly literate general interest online magazine presented by Adobe Systems and Apple Computer. Dan "s career follows three threads: programmer, writer and, now, Webmaster. His prodigious writing output (40+ books) started with the first Macintosh programming book in 1985 and has continued over 11 years to his latest, JavaScript and Netscape Wizardry. (Coriolis Group, 1996.) Contributing Editor Dale Kirby discussed with Dan how Web development draws upon these diverse skills and talents.
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 Interview with VRML co-developer, Mark Pesce. "Mark Pesce is a real man of the 'wrl.' He and Tony Parisi got a notion that became a mission. That notion was Virtual Reality Markup Language and the mission was to define a standard for producing 3D environments for the World Wide Web. As that mission comes close to realization with the new VRML 2.0 standard, I talked with Mark about the nuts and bolts of what web developers can expect in terms of opportunities and headaches with this new paradigm. I found Mark to be multi-dimensional, (sort of a 3D++ guy.) with one foot on the ground and one foot smack in the middle of hyperspace." -- Dale Kirby
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 Interview with Javasoft Webmaster. Hassan Schroeder is the Java Webmaster at Sun Microsystems. As the first corporate Webmaster at a large, yet entrepreneurial, company he is on the front-line of an emerging information systems job title. His position is a hybrid of independent developer and corporate manager at a site that daily gets over a million http accesses and transfers a dozen gigs of ftp material. For our interview we used a handy little piece of 120 year old technology called the telephone. |
 Interview with web developer, Dan Austin. In many ways Dan Austin is a prototypical Web developer: a scientist by training, a programmer by choice and a businessman by necessity. He is one of the people who is inventing the definition of what it means to be a Web developer. His Web development consulting firm, Invented Worlds, is involved in a variety of Web activities from custom high-end graphics programming to developing security and encryption software. I talked with Dan about the challenges of being a Web developer in the wild west atmosphere of the WWW today. We did the interview via good old email--the pony express of Internet applications. |
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