Brian Alvey

Brian Alvey

Brian Alvey (born March 6, 1970 in Falls Church, VA) along with Jason Calacanis co-founded the publishing company Weblogs, Inc., home to such blogs as Engadget, Autoblog, Joystiq, TV Squad, Cinematical and Slashfood. Time Warner's America Online purchased Weblogs, Inc. in October 2005. In November 2006, AOL also purchased the blogging platform Blogsmith which Alvey built. Blogsmith is used to power Weblogs, Inc. and other AOL blogs such as TMZ.com.

In May 2007 he announced he was leaving AOL to devote his time to ComicMix, the comic book publishing company he co-founded with Mike Gold and Glenn Hauman. In February 2008 he launched a site for his new web publishing platform company, Crowd Fusion.

Brian Alvey was the creator and host of the Meet The Makers conference, a series of talk show-style events. He also invented and launched Blogstakes, a sweepstakes application for the blogging community.

Alvey designed the first TV Guide website in 1995 and was the senior technical member of the in-house team that built the first BusinessWeek site later that year. He continued designing and developing database-driven Web applications for companies including BusinessWeek, Intel, J.D. Edwards, Deloitte & Touche and The McGraw-Hill Companies. His Tech-Engine career center application has powered over 200 online career centers including XML.com, the Computer User, O'Reilly & Associates Network, DevShed, and the Cold Fusion Developer's Journal. He has been the art director of three print magazines and the Chief Technology Officer of Rising Tide Studios where he personally developed The Venture Reporter Network.

Alvey has also built publishing systems for sites designed by Jeffrey Zeldman including the Web design magazine A List Apart and the Kansas City Chiefs. He was the architect of the system that powers the redesigned global network of Capgemini websites and the chief architect of Netscape.

External links

* [http://brianalvey.com/ Brian Alvey's blog]
* [http://comicmix.com/ ComicMix]
* [http://crowdfusion.com/ Crowd Fusion]
* [http://obsessable.com/ Obsessable]


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