Josh Russell

Current

Product Development Consultant at Various
Co-founder at likeginger.com
Curator at Hidden People

Co-founder at I CAN HAZ dot COM
Co-founder at Dash Labs
Founder / Strategist at Metranet Communications
Owner at joshrussell.com

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Past

Founder at Loose Connection LTD
User Experience Evangelist at Microsoft
Interactive Developer at Comic Relief

Owner / Creator at Ping Base
In House Freelancer at Vision Design
HTML/CSS Guy at Angry Fish
Web Designer at Meditech Media
Junior Designer at Virtual Brighton

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Josh Russell’s Summary

excited by digital innovation, always has something to share and an opinion to give.

interested in how what we build with the internet effects us as individuals and society as a whole.

believer in a flat world, and a level playing field.

like to spend time in-between work talking to other people with passion, come and find me for a coffee!

lives on the internet.

2009 for me is about the attention economy, distributed services, new protocols, tracking of ownership, personal identity management, being technology agnostic and living in the cloud.

Josh Russell’s Specialties:

strategy, scale, business modeling, concept development, sustainability, joined-up thinking, networking, opportunity capitalisation, communities, structure hacking, changing the world, following passion, kung-fu, alpha-citizenship, technology innovation, application of technology, social change, empowerment, data, people, platforms, infrastructure, open standards, protocol development, knowledge sharing, long tail communication, linking, preservation, all things open, best practices.

Josh Russell’s Experience

Product Development Consultant

Various

(Internet industry)

June 2009 — Present (6 months)

Consulting on project core focus, product path, and opportunities. And helping to answer the questions:

"what does it do?", "how does it work?", and "what is the business model?"
Co-founder

likeginger.com

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

A Dash Labs company.
Curator

Hidden People

(Internet industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

"an ad-hoc group of professionals available for high-end, bite-size, consultancy on technology"
Co-founder

I CAN HAZ dot COM

(Internet industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

url shortening service. you choose your own string rather than being given a random bunch of numbers.

like - http://icanhaz.com/geekhangouts
not - http://tinyurl.com/9xfex2

also, it has cats.

version 2 is currently in development.
Co-founder

Dash Labs

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

January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

Dash Labs is a new company founded by myself, David Stone and Pete Barr-Watson. it's focus is on building web apps.

http://www.dashlabs.com
http://www.builtbydave.co.uk
http://www.petebarrwatson.com
Founder / Strategist

Metranet Communications

(Public Company; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

March 2005 — Present (4 years 9 months)

Wimax infrastructure. next generation citywide communication platforms.

providing backhaul network services covering two major cities in the UK, to the local authorities and business.

interested in providing services to the rest of the UK, and planning and taking part in R&D projects.

http://www.metranet.co.uk
Owner

joshrussell.com

(Internet industry)

September 1996 — Present (13 years 3 months)

not the first place i blogged at from 1996 (overdose.com, oosh.com, ijosh.org) but the place i've settled.

early experiments with sms based blogging, photo sharing, location and social travel information.

mostly kept as a personal blog covering subjects from global politics and technology, to my family and home town, Brighton. it mainly focuses now on what i do most, interact with the world around me.
Founder

Loose Connection LTD

(Wireless industry)

March 2003 — 2009 (6 years )

Loose Connection started the first commercial free WiFi hotspots, experimented by creating the first WiFi beach in the world in Brighton, UK, and got people out of their offices and into the real world by putting people never more than 10 minutes away from free WiFi access in cafes, bars and public spaces.

Loose Connection has become Metranet Communications and specialises in WiMax and building wireless metropolitan networks.
User Experience Evangelist

Microsoft

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

January 2008 — July 2008 (7 months)

Silverlight is an exciting new web platform comparable to Flash, it's built using open and established languages and provides an opportunity for thousands of developers to re-use their existing skillsets to build RIAs and great media experiences. I'll be working from the ground up with freelancers and agencies to help them to get started, and to network with others for peer support and project collaborations.
Interactive Developer

Comic Relief

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

September 2004 — January 2008 (3 years 5 months)

working on the interactive parts of the following projects and some technical planning and management.

http://www.rednoseday.com
http://www.sportrelief.com
http://www.sendmyfriend.org
http://www.makepovertyhistory.org
http://www.live8live.com
Owner / Creator

Ping Base

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

August 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 11 months)

Ping Base is a website monitoring tool for the Web 2.0 era. Designed and created by myself and Nick Taylor of Tangerine Works.

http://www.pingbase.com
In House Freelancer

Vision Design

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

March 2002 — May 2003 (1 year 3 months)

consulting on new technology, writing Flash/Actionscript modules, integrating designs into sites, managing email campaigns.
HTML/CSS Guy

Angry Fish

(Wireless industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year )
Web Designer

Meditech Media

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

September 1998 — August 1999 (1 year )
Junior Designer

Virtual Brighton

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

August 1996 — September 1997 (1 year 2 months)

www.brighton.co.uk an early community and resource for the seaside town of Brighton. i worked on maintaining the site and filling it with local content