The weekend before last, I did something I’ve been hoping to do for literally several years: I joined InfoEther (as CTO). If you’re outside the Ruby, Flash, or Semantic Web communities, you may not know of InfoEther. They are a technology company co-founded by my friend and Ruby Central co-conspirator, Rich Kilmer.
InfoEther is best known for doing seemingly impossible technological feats faster than most companies can write a J2EE bug tracker. They’ve led the way consistently in Ruby, Flash, and Semantic Web technologies since Rich and Mark founded the company several years ago.
For me, joining InfoEther is probably akin to what joining a company like Google is to many programmers. It’s like going back to school, in that I’m joining a small team of people who have all been somehow caught up in Rich’s special reality distortion field in which no technological problem is difficult or time consuming. I’m hoping to catch at least a little of that bug.
Under the umbrella of the indi, a personal semantic web platform, we’re working on some innovative technologies which bring together much of the diverse and cutting edge stuff InfoEther has been doing over the past 5 years. More on this later.
A refreshing change of pace from making simple Web applications.
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June 19th, 2007 at 12:21 AM
Congrats!
Forrest
June 19th, 2007 at 12:37 AM
Congrats Chad, best of luck to you!
June 19th, 2007 at 12:45 AM
Congratulations! Does this mean you’ll be leaving Boulder for shallower climes?
June 19th, 2007 at 01:12 AM
Grant, nope. Working from home, where ever that may be :)
June 19th, 2007 at 02:54 AM
Congrats Chad!
June 19th, 2007 at 03:11 AM
Change is good. Congratulations!
June 19th, 2007 at 08:10 AM
Congratulations! Hope you have great experiences there to share with us :)
June 19th, 2007 at 02:02 PM
Congrats Chad ! The mantra is great, ‘Simple safe and fun’
June 20th, 2007 at 03:16 AM
Congratulations Chad. Good luck on the new job. That will be a great privilege to work with Rich and his crew.
June 20th, 2007 at 03:56 AM
Congrats Chad. The only person left to join now is David Black to complete the team :) Hope to see you at some of the NOVARUG (www.novarug.org) meetings in Northern Virginia.
June 20th, 2007 at 04:28 PM
Great! congrats. Looking forward to seeing some innovative stuff come out of InfoEther. Read about the indi earlier.
Vasudev Ram http://www.dancingbison.com
June 24th, 2007 at 05:07 PM
Good news. Perhaps we’ll get to see an after-hours Indi demo at RubyConf 2007 this year?