Futurist (Data Portability, Participation, Attention)
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- VP Product and Community Strategy - Echo at JS-Kit
- Co-Founder at DataPortability Project
- Co-Founder at Media 2.0 Workgroup
- Co-Founder at APML Workgroup
- Past
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- Co-Founder and Director at Faraday Media (Particls)
- Founder, CEO at RedShift Pty Ltd
- Founder/Host at Radioactive
- Education
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- John Paul College
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Chris Saad’s Summary
I like to find patterns in the chaos. I look for microcosms, long-term trends, ripples and waves. I like to think abstractly while designing simple, concrete solutions - solutions that work today while allowing for long-term extensibility and scale.
I pay attention to Attention. Attention is one of the most powerful human cognitive functions. It determines what we see, what we hear and what we act on. Attention motivates us. It compels us. We are drawn to those who have it while we ask for others to give it. In an age of abundance the key economic driver of the coming decade will be Attention. Measuring it, learning from it, managing it and sharing it.
I am interested in the lyrical and the practical. The aesthetic and the technical. The form and the function. I prefer flow over stocks, liberal over conservative, open over closed. I am interested in helping others succeed so that we can all work and play in shared personal and professional success.
Some Highlights So Far:
> Listed on 30under30 Entrepreneurs in Australia
http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/im-on-the-anthill-30-under-30-list/
> Joining JS-Kit
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/bringing_data_portability_to_a.php
> Conversation at NextWeb about DataPortability
http://blip.tv/file/798908
> APML Coverage
http://techmeme.com/search/query?q=APML&wm=false
> DataPortability Coverage
http://techmeme.com/search/query?q=dataportability&wm=false
> On Australian National Radio talking about Attention Economy
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/futuretense/stories/2009/2619950.htm
My current interests have driven me to a number of projects of passion. They are listed below.
Chris Saad’s Specialties:
Web/Media 2.0
Trend-Tracking
Consultation
Requirements Analysis
Solution Design
Product Management
Project Management
Chris Saad’s Experience
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VP Product and Community Strategy - Echo
JS-Kit
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
I observe and document trends, imagine the future, design and communicate corresponding product road map strategies and express my ideas to anyone who's interested.
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Co-Founder
DataPortability Project
(Internet industry)
October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Standardized Data Portability is the next great frontier for the web. As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors. We need a DHCP for Identity. A distributed File System for data. This page will list the standards and contributors who are making it happen.
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Co-Founder
Media 2.0 Workgroup
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
The Media 2.0 Workgroup is a group of industry commentators, agitators and innovators who believe that the phenomena of democratic participation will change the face of media creation, distribution and consumption.
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Co-Founder
APML Workgroup
(Internet industry)
October 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)
APML stands for 'Attention Profiling Markup Langauge'. It is an open format for describing a user's ranked interests for 'Attention Aware' applications.
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Co-Founder and Director
Faraday Media (Particls)
(Public Company; Semiconductors industry)
January 2006 — June 2009 (3 years 6 months)
Particls is an all-purpose heads-up-display for your life. it learns what you care about and delivers that information to you while you work. The result can take many forms including a news crawler, pop-up alerts, SMS, email digests, flash visualizations etc.
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Founder, CEO
RedShift Pty Ltd
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2000 — January 2006 (6 years 1 month)
As the Founder and CEO of RedShift I set the vision & strategy for the company. We created business models around simple, elegant web-based software that help communities create and extract value from their shared contributions and experiences.
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Founder/Host
Radioactive
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
January 1997 — May 2000 (3 years 5 months)
Radioactive was about turning radio into a real-time conversation with a community. With a live radio show broadcast on terrestrial radio and the internet every week, the show blurred the lines between chat, forums, voting and radio to create a presentation that was by the community and for the community.
I founded the project, designed the show and managed a team of over 20 volunteers around the country to broadcast a new show each week.
The result was a set of community interaction technologies that were later commercialized through RedShift Pty Ltd (including a form of blogging and podcasting before the practice was popularized by RSS).
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Chris Saad’s Interests:
Reading, Writing, Watching, Psychology, Technology, Trends, Community Building
Chris Saad’s Groups:
Media 2.0 Workgroup, APML Workgroup, DataPortability Project
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DataPortability Project
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