Daylife's DayPI Developer Challenges: The Judges

You will code up and post about an application based on Daylife's API, and win a prize!

Our judges, listed below. will pick the best entries based on overall interestingness, and how nicely the entries incorporate content using the DayPI.

(Click here for more information about the contest.)

Brian Behlendorf founded CollabNet, with O'Reilly & Associates, in July 1999. The company provides tools and services based on open source methods. Before launching CollabNet, Behlendorf was co-founder and CTO of Organic Online, a Web design and engineering consultancy located in San Francisco. During his five years at Organic, Behlendorf helped create Internet strategies for dozens of Fortune 500 companies. During that time, he co-founded and contributed heavily to the Apache Web Server Project, co-founded and supported the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) effort, and assisted several IETF working groups, particularly the HTTP standardization effort. Before starting Organic, Behlendorf was the first Chief Engineer at Wired Magazine and later HotWired, one of the first large-scale publishing Web sites.

Behlendorf is President of the Apache Software Foundation. He also serves as a Technical Advisor to Critical Path (CPTH) and Topica.

Combining elements of computer science, anthropology, visual art and storytelling, Jonathan Harris designs systems to explore and explain the human world. He has made projects about human emotion, human desire, modern mythology, science, news, anonymity, and language, and documented an Alaskan Eskimo whale hunt. He was commissioned by Yahoo! to build the world's largest time capsule, and by MoMA to build an interactive installation about online dating. He studied computer science at Princeton University, and was awarded a 2004 Fabrica fellowship. The winner of three Webby Awards, his work has also been recognized by AIGA, Ars Electronica, Print, ID Magazine, and the State of Vermont, has been featured by CNN, BBC, NPR, Reuters, Metropolis, The New York Times, USA Today, and Wired, and has been exhibited at Le Centre Pompidou (Paris), and MoMA (New York).  He has given lectures all over the world, including at Google, Princeton and Stanford Universities, the TED Conference, and on Bhutanese television.  Born in lovely Vermont, he lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Marc Hedlund is Chairman and CEO of Wesabe, the leading personal finance community site. Marc founded Wesabe while he was an entrepreneur-in-residence at O’Reilly Media. Prior to O’Reilly, he was VP of engineering at Sana Security, an enterprise intrusion prevention software company. Previously, Marc co-founded and was CEO of Popular Power, a distributed computing startup; founded and led Lucas Online, the internet subsidiary of Lucasfilm, Ltd; was director of engineering at Organic Online; and was CTO at Webstorm, where he wrote one of the Internet’s first shopping cart applications in 1994. Marc is a graduate of Reed College.

Scott Heiferman co-founded Meetup in 2002. Previously, he founded Fotolog (the leading photo blog service) and i-traffic (the first online ad agency). Scott was named MIT Technology Review's "Innovator of the Year" for 2004. He graduated from The University of Iowa, he is the Organizer of the NY Tech Meetup and has posted a daily photo on his Fotolog since early 2001. Additionally, Scott is the Organizer of NY Tech Meetup. You can find Scott's blog at scott.heiferman.com.

Jeff Jarvis blogs about media and news at buzzmachine.com. He is associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism. He is consulting editor of Daylife, a news startup. He writes a new media column for The Guardian. He consults for media companies. Until 2005, he was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications. Prior to that, Jarvis was creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner; assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune; reporter for Chicago Today. He says he is at work on a book.

Richard Moross is utterly convinced that design can change the world.

Since graduating in 2000 he has worked in a range of creative businesses in an attempt to prove this, from start-ups to global organisations, before starting MOO in August 2004, where he serves as Founder and CEO.  Prior to this, Richard was a senior strategist at Imagination, the world’s largest independent design company, where he was responsible for innovation and strategy for some of the world’s leading brands. His past companies also include sorted.com and the BBC and he has had his thoughts on design and innovation published in books, magazines and the web.

Richard was recently featured in the Times Newspaper’s '40 Under 40' list, a compilation of the “young guns tuned in to the accelerating pace of change in the media landscape - the trendspotters and entrepreneurs who stand to reap the biggest rewards over the next digital decade.” He was also listed in the Telegraph Newspaper’s ‘100 Most Influential People in Technology’ list and amongst the 1,000 ‘Most Powerful People in British Business’.

Richard blogs at Yo, CEO.

Clay Shirky is on the faculty of NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, and he writes and teaches on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His new book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, is about what happens when people are given the tools to do things together, without needing traditional organizational structures.

Bill Michels is the Senior Director of Yahoo!’s Open Search Platform. In this role he is responsible for all product and business management for Yahoo!’s open search APIs and related initiatives. He will be the sole judge of the best contest entry to win the $2000 the BOSS-DayPI bonus prize.
 
Previously, Bill was Director for International Operations on Yahoo!’s Search Marketing (YSM) team, where he managed the business and strategic initiatives for the Sponsored Search and other products in Yahoo!’s international P&L. Prior to Yahoo!, Bill held various business development and strategy planning positions in Internet and media related start-ups. Before these roles Bill was an Equity Research Associate at UBS covering Telecom and Technology. Bill has a MBA from Columbia Business School and BA from Colby College.