Joe Kraus

Current

• Director of Product Management at Google
• Board Member at Electronic Frontier Foundation

Past

• CEO at JotSpot
• Founder at DigitalConsumer.org
• Founder at Excite.com

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Joe Kraus’s Summary

blog at: bnoopy.typepad.com

Google acquired JotSpot (the previous company I co-founded and ran) in October of 2006 and I'm currently a Director of Product Management at Google in the Google Apps group working on Google's social initiatives including Google's efforts on OpenSocial.

Before being at Google, I was the CEO and co-founder of JotSpot, a wiki ASP that is bringing wiki technology to the mainstream and transforming wikis into a method of rapidly building lightweight business applications.

Before JotSpot, I co-founded Excite.com in 1993. After raising our first round of VC, I held roles in business development, international, marketing and product management. I left in April of 2000 when I was running the product side of excite.com and the broadband excite.

After Excite, I co-founded Digitalconsumer.org, a grassroots consumer and political organization with more than 49,000 members dedicated to protecting consumer’s fair-use rights to digital media and to safeguarding the ability of technology companies to innovate freely.

I'm a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and I'm an angel investor in several internet companies.

Joe Kraus’s Specialties:

Company formation, Digital Copyright, product management, team building

Joe Kraus’s Experience

• Director of Product Management

  Google

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; goog; Internet industry)

  November 2006 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  Currently, I am working on OpenSocial, an effort to have a common API that allows developers of social applications to embed those applications in multiple social networks.

• Board Member

  Electronic Frontier Foundation

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Law Practice industry)

  June 2005 — Present (3 years 4 months)

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