Ed Anuff is an entrepreneur and Head of Product at Datastax. Prior to Datastax, he was Vice President of Product Strategy at Apigee.[1] 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.[2]
Ed Anuff | |
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| Occupation | entrepreneur |
| Website | http://www.anuff.com |
Career
editPrior to joining Datastax, Anuff founded cloud service Usergrid. Apigee acquired Usergrid in January 2012.[3] Prior to Usergrid, he served as Executive Vice President and GM, Platform Products and Services at Six Apart, Ltd.[2]
Before joining Six Apart Anuff was co-founder of Widgetbox (with Giles Goodwin and Dean Moses),[4] 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),[5] 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.[6]
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
editIn 2001, Anuff was also granted a key patent (US Patent # 6,327,628)[7] related to portal server software.
In 2010, Anuff and eight coworkers were granted US Patent # 7,801,990,[8][9] "Graphical user interface for performing administration on web components of web sites in a portal framework".
Books
editReferences
edit- ^ Pickavet, Henry (2016-03-21). "Almost everyone is doing the API economy wrong". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 2008-09-15. 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.
{{cite news}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^ "Graphical user interface for performing administration on web components of web sites in a portal framework".
- ^ "New patent - Ed Anuff". www.anuff.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07.
External links
edit- http://www.anuff.com Archived 2008-11-20 at the Wayback Machine Personal website.
- Ed Anuff on LinkedIn
- Usergrid