- Joe Kraus
Joe Kraus is the founder of
Excite ,JotSpot , and DigitalConsumer.org, along with his long-time business partnerGraham Spencer .A long time entrepreneur, Kraus has been involved with early-stage technology development and starting companies for more than twelve years. Upon graduation from
Stanford University in 1993 with abachelor's degree inpolitical science , he joined with five engineering friends to found the Internet company Excite, which would declare bankruptcy in 2001 [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BNO/is_2001_Nov/ai_79531140] . The original president of Excite, Kraus was deeply involved in product strategy, direction and vision as the company grew. He also held senior operational roles in business development, international development and content.After leaving Excite@Home in 2000, Kraus was a co-founder of Digitalconsumer.org, a non-profit consumer organization with more than 50,000 members dedicated to expanding consumers' fair-use rights to digital media. Kraus, along with other co-founder Graham Spencer, continues to work on these issues. In 2006, Kraus joined the board of the
Electronic Frontier Foundation . In addition to his non-profit focus, he has also spent many years as an angel investor, working with numerous early-stage technology companies.Kraus was CEO of
JotSpot , which was purchased by Google in 2006.Since the acquisition, Kraus has been director of product management at Google. Among his projects there is
OpenSocial , Google's effort to developAPI standards forsocial networking platforms.External links
* [http://bnoopy.typepad.com/ Weblog]
* BBC News: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4118770.stm Lessons from Silicon Valley]
* New York Times: [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/technology/31google.html?ref=business Google and friends to gang up on Facebook]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
