Randy Charles Morin is a Canadian web publisher and the former chairman of the
RSS Advisory Board The RSS Advisory Board is a group founded in July 2003 that publishes the RSS 0.9, RSS 0.91 and RSS 2.0 specifications and helps developers create RSS applications.
Dave Winer, the lead author of several RSS specifications and a longtime evangelis ...
, a group that publishes the
RSS 2.0 specification. Randy authored th
RSS autodiscovery specificationand contributed to th
RSS profile He also runs the
TalkSports website.
In 2005, Morin began Rmail, a startup that enabled RSS feeds to be read over email. The site grew to more than 50,000 subscribers, and in April 2007 was sold to the broadcast network
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, its headquarters are l ...
. NBC digital media executive George Kliavkoff said the acquisition would enable the company to "make predictive understandings of what they might be interested in and start learning about RSS." NBC rebranded the service as
SendMeRSS.
Morin began TalkSports after a 2005 blog post he wrote about hockey player
Sidney Crosby
Sidney Patrick Crosby (born August 7, 1987) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed "Sid the Kid" and dubbed " The Next One", he was selected first o ...
received a comment from a female inquiring whether Crosby had a girlfriend. He explained to
Drama Scene Live Radio in an interview, "Google immediately picked up that new comment and within a few days that page was getting 1,000 hits per day. And I thought, I've got an idea ..."
Bibliography
He authored and co-authored several technical books.
* Programming Windows Services (2000)
* Waite Group's COM/DCOM Primer Plus
* COM/DCOM Unleashed (1999)
* Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Programming Unleashed (1999)
* COM/DCOM (Korean)
* COM/DCOM (Japanese)
* COM+ Unleashed
In the news
* On January 30, 2006, Joined the
RSS Advisory Board The RSS Advisory Board is a group founded in July 2003 that publishes the RSS 0.9, RSS 0.91 and RSS 2.0 specifications and helps developers create RSS applications.
Dave Winer, the lead author of several RSS specifications and a longtime evangelis ...
.
* On August 12, 2008, becomes chairman of the
RSS Advisory Board The RSS Advisory Board is a group founded in July 2003 that publishes the RSS 0.9, RSS 0.91 and RSS 2.0 specifications and helps developers create RSS applications.
Dave Winer, the lead author of several RSS specifications and a longtime evangelis ...
.
References
External links
Morin's Twitter accountThe RSS BlogTalkSports WebsiteAdelaine Morin's YouTube channel
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian computer scientists
Canadian bloggers
People from Cobalt, Ontario
Franco-Ontarian people
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