Amit Kothari

Current

• Technical Consultant at Headshift
• Founder at moonrise
• Founder at QuotationsBook.com

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Past

• Designer and Developer at Atos Origin
• Developer at BT.com

Education

• University of Bath

Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog

Amit Kothari’s Summary

I spend my time identifying the social and commercial problems of different groups of people. I try to design highly efficient businesses which use the internet to plug these problems in a beautiful way.

Amit Kothari’s Specialties:

web applications, web 2.0, rich content systems, portals, social networking, literature, quotations, writing, superdistribution, presence, emotions, feelings, gossip, entertainment, software as services, business models, medical services, clinical needs, economic moats

Amit Kothari’s Experience

• Technical Consultant

  Headshift

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  I work 4 days a week for Headshift – Europe’s leading social computing consultancy. We focus squarely on social and knowledge sharing tools for productivity within the enterprise. Our propositions are in an area many large companies call “Enterprise 2.0”. Headshift’s clients include the “magic circle” law firms as well as blue chips. My role involves working with clients in designing, building, delivering and consulting using vendors like Atlassian Confluence – an enterprise wiki in Java. Besides this, I work on a number of things I can't talk about ;-)

• Founder

  moonrise

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  http://moonri.se is in development. It's a simple platform to express how you feel, using rich media. It has a focus on emotion and feeling, and will try to bring much greater importance to emotional expression on the web. It will also be a platform to construct any moods application, on facebook/opensocial or otherwise.

• Founder

  QuotationsBook.com

  (Privately Held; Accounting industry)

  July 2004 — Present (5 years 5 months)

  I conceptualised, created and launched Quotations Book at The Future of Web Apps conference in February 2007. It's a leading social quotes resource with traffic that keeps increasing. It's profitable from various long-term syndication agreements with several customers. Much more is on the 'Press' and 'About Us' links at http://quotationsbook.com.

• Designer and Developer

  Atos Origin

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2004 — June 2006 (1 year 11 months)

  I worked on public sector projects involving systems integration. This included a portal for a local authority in London, NHS Choose and Book in Leeds and VOSA in Bristol. Used Tibco, BEA WLI and WLP, Java and various relevant technologies and enterprise vendors. Exercised web app usability, design and accessibility skills. Also wrote white papers and technical designs.

• Developer

  BT.com

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BT.L; Telecommunications industry)

  August 2002 — June 2003 (11 months)

  Loads of funky solutions at BT.com

Additional Information

Amit Kothari’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog

Amit Kothari’s Interests:

enabling technologies, equity markets, web apps, software as a service, business models, writing, poetry, margins, warren buffett

Amit Kothari’s Groups:

BCS, London Geek Dinners

Amit Kothari’s Honors:

University of Bath - The IPL Prize for a web software project,
Sulis Seedcorn Fund - Business Plan Competition Finalist,
University of Bath - Founder/Chair of Creative Writing Society

Amit Kothari’s Contact Settings

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