Founder/President of Digital Bazaar, Inc
Roanoke, Virginia Area
- Current
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- Founder at Commons Design Initiative
- Invited Expert at W3C
- President/CEO at Digital Bazaar, Inc.
- Founder/Owner at Digital Bazaar, Inc.
- Past
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- Chief Technology Architect at Shepherd Medical Systems
- Interim Chief Technology Officer at Advanced Simulation Technology, Inc.
- Director of Product Development at xRhino, Inc.
- Education
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- Virginia Tech
- Marshall University
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Manu Sporny’s Summary
Founder/President and CEO of Digital Bazaar, Inc. Background in Computer Science, interests in advancing the state of the art in computing, micro-payment systems, peer-to-peer systems and creating fair systems that compensate individuals for their creative efforts. The culimation and ongoing improvement of this set of interests can be found at:
http://www.bitmunk.com/
Manu Sporny’s Specialties:
Software engineering and design, software/system usability engineering, supercomputer design, high performance graphic computing, virtual reality systems, GIS systems, distributed computing, peer-to-peer system swarming, project management (teams of 3-25), copyright law, high-availability micro-payment financial systems, contract negotiation, patent creation, submission and execution, business law, licensing negotiation and authoring, serial entrepreneur
Manu Sporny’s Experience
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Founder
Commons Design Initiative
(Architecture & Planning industry)
June 2008 — Present (5 months)
The goal of the initiative is to create a community of designers, architects, mechanical engineers, material scientists, software developers, hardware developers, construction engineers, students, teachers and regular everyday folks across the web that have come together to improve the quality of housing available to the world.
This site is dedicated to the collaborative design, planning, construction and implementation of housing for disaster relief, low income, and low resource clients through cost effective, energy conscious and green movement methodologies.
We believe in open source designs and implementations. All of the designs, methods and tools generated through the site are available under Creative Commons, Open Source or other licensing methods that promote group learning, collaboration and implementation across the globe. -
Invited Expert
W3C
(Internet industry)
2007 — Present (1 year)
Currently working as an Invited Expert to the Semantic Web Deployment workgroup in the World Wide Web Consortium. Member in the RDF in XHTML Task Force (RDFa).
RDFa helps bloggers and website authors make their web pages smarter by adding computer-readable information, such as information about you, events, places, books or music, to a site. By adding RDFa to your website or blog, you help computers interact with your website in a way that is more helpful to people visiting your site. RDFa makes web browsers smarter by giving people more options when viewing a web page, such as adding you to their address book, adding an event to their calendar, getting directions to a place described by RDFa, or searching online bookstores for a book marked up using RDFa.
I believe that RDFa is the basis for advanced computer-based reasoning (teaching computers to understand human concepts) and is the reason that I have become directly involved in its future direction. -
President/CEO
Digital Bazaar, Inc.
(Internet industry)
November 2002 — Present (6 years)
Digital Bazaar, Inc. provides technologies and services to enable individuals and businesses to buy and sell digital content via the Internet. The technology has been used across industries switching to digital content distribution including the music, television, movie, electronic medial record, and electronic book industries. Our flagship service is Bitmunk:
http://bitmunk.com/
Bitmunk exists to serve the vast array of people and communities that want to transact with each other on the Internet. Our research has shown that people would much rather get their digital content from friends and community websites. The Bitmunk software enables anybody to create their own digital content store without knowing the complexities of digital transactions, peer-to-peer networks, content transfer, steganography, electronic signatures, royalty allocation and content distribution. Buying and selling on the network is automated, legal and operates on free-market principles. -
Founder/Owner
Digital Bazaar, Inc.
(Internet industry)
November 2002 — Present (6 years)
Digital Bazaar, Inc. provides technologies and services to enable individuals and businesses to buy and sell digital content via the Internet. The technology has been used across industries switching to digital content distribution including the music, television, movie, electronic medial record, and electronic book industries. Our flagship service is Bitmunk:
http://bitmunk.com/
Bitmunk exists to serve the vast array of people and communities that want to transact with each other on the Internet. Our research has shown that people would much rather get their digital content from friends and community websites. The Bitmunk software enables anybody to create their own digital content store without knowing the complexities of digital transactions, peer-to-peer networks, content transfer, steganography, electronic signatures, royalty allocation and content distribution. Buying and selling on the network is automated, legal and operates on free-market principles. -
Chief Technology Architect
Shepherd Medical Systems
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
March 2005 — February 2006 (1 year)
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Interim Chief Technology Officer
Advanced Simulation Technology, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Defense & Space industry)
May 2005 — August 2005 (4 months)
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Director of Product Development
xRhino, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2000 — November 2003 (3 years 1 month)
Manu Sporny’s Education
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Virginia Tech
BS, Computer Science, August 1996 — December 2001
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Marshall University
BS, Computer Science, January 1995 — June 1996
Completed high school in three years, attended local college for the remaining year.
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Manu Sporny’s Groups:
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Microformats, Songbird, Firefox
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Mozilla Gecko Extensions Developers
Manu Sporny’s Contact Settings
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