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Sunday, December 8, 2013

Bret Taylor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Taylor

This wiki page talks briefly about Bret Taylor's career. He was co-creator of GoogleMaps and the Google Maps API. Then he left Google in 2007 and started working for venture capital firm. He formed the social network FriendFeed and was CEO until it was bought out by Facebook. He worked for Facebook as well until he left to form his own company. Bret Taylor also keeps up the Tornado web server. He attended Stanford University where he earned a bachelors and masters degree in computer science.


http://backchannel.org/

This is a link to Bret Taylor's blog. Bret blogs at lot about his companies Tornado and FriendFeed. He blogs about the Web stocks in his company Tornado. He also about new technology developments. He mainly blogs about experiments with his companies and on the internet.

http://gigaom.com/2013/07/30/ex-facebook-cto-bret-taylor-co-founder-kevin-gibbs-launch-quip-a-new-collaborative-word-processor/

The above link talks about Bret Taylor's venture with his new company Quip. He co-founded this with Kevin Gibbs who used to work at Google on their data center. Quip allows its users to combine documents and messages into a single medium. it allows you do to this from your phone or your desktop. The below photo shows you how this would work on your phone. The mobile aspect is the primary focus for Quip, while it doesn't neglect the desktop.

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