Blaine Cook (born December 19, 1980) is a Canadian software engineer, now living and working in

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Career

Cook is the principal co-author of the

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and

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specifications. He is the former lead developer of social networking site

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. He has also worked for

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on the Fire Eagle project and for

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as part of their

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Osmosoft team. He was founder of collaborative text editing startup Poetica. Poetica was acquired by

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in March 2016, and Cook remained with the company as a staff engineer.

References

External links

Cook's Home page

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"Twitter techie Blaine Cook talks about leaving"
by Caroline McCarthy, CNET News (April 23, 2008)
"Twitter to jump off Ruby on Rails?"
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"Busy Twitter a poster child for new communications"
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