Ed Anuff
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Occupation | entrepreneur |
Website | http://www.anuff.com |
Ed Anuff is an entrepreneur and Head of Product at Datastax. Prior to Datastax, he was Vice President of Product Strategy at Apigee.[citation needed] He is the founder of cloud based service Usergrid. Prior to Usergrid, he served as Executive Vice President and GM, Platform Products and Services at Six Apart, Ltd.[1]
Career[]
Prior to joining Datastax, Anuff founded cloud service Usergrid. Apigee acquired Usergrid in January 2012.[2] Prior to Usergrid, he served as Executive Vice President and GM, Platform Products and Services at Six Apart, Ltd.[1]
Before joining Six Apart Anuff was co-founder of Widgetbox (with and ),[3] a marketplace for widgets. He was the company's original CEO. Prior to founding Widgetbox, Anuff was co-founder of enterprise software company Epicentric (with Oliver Muoto),[4] a leading provider of Enterprise portal software. He served as Epicentric's first CEO, later assuming the roles of chairman and chief strategy officer.
Prior to co-founding Epicentric, he was an executive at Wired (parent of Wired.com) responsible for the launch of HotBot, one of the first news search engines, in May 1996.[5]
Anuff is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and author of the best selling Java Sourcebook, published by John Wiley & Sons, one of the first books on the Java programming language.
Patents[]
In 2001, Anuff was also granted a key patent (US Patent # 6,327,628)[6] related to portal server software.
In 2010, Anuff and eight coworkers were granted US Patent # 7,801,990,[7][8] "Graphical user interface for performing administration on web components of web sites in a portal framework".
Books[]
References[]
- ^ a b "Six Apart resurrects Pownce in new microblogging platform". Retrieved 2016-09-10.
- ^ "Apigee Acquires Mobile App API Provider Usergrid | Apigee". apigee.com. Retrieved 2016-09-10.
- ^ Dan Farber (September 25, 2006). "Widgetbox launches widget marketplace". ZDNet Blog. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
- ^ Erich Luening (July 6, 1999). "Epicentric unveils software for corporate portals". CNET News. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
- ^ HotBot History
- ^ Business Wire (December 4, 2001). "Epicentric Granted Patent on Administration of Portal User Privileges; Patent Protects Key Component of Epicentric's Enterprise Portal Management System". Business Wire. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
- ^ http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7801990.html
- ^ http://www.anuff.com/2010/09/new-patent.html
External links[]
- http://www.anuff.com Personal website.
- Ed Anuff on LinkedIn
- Usergrid
- Living people
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
- American computer businesspeople