About
You can call me a web architect.
For most of my career, I’ve worked with super small teams of people who juggle many responsibilities. I wouldn’t have it any other way, but it does make it hard to find a title that fits.
I’ve worked on projects for two of my biggest influences.
In 2002, I built the official web site for Jaco Pastorius. The following year I designed and produced the packaging for the Portrait of Jaco box set.
In 2005, Seth Godin picked me and 3 others to help him architect Squidoo. He hired me as COO later that summer, and we built it soon after that.
Since 1995, I’ve been doing web work.
Before that, I was in the graphic art field, all the way back to the pre-desktop days of traditional pre-press. I was the third generation in my family to go into that field, so I had great teachers. I was glad to move to the web and say goodbye to the permanent nature of printed materials (especially when I made mistakes).
I led a catalog retailer to the web in 1995, and later became VP of the newly (and very web 1.0) named AnotherUniverse.com. We did millions in revenue with a unique contextual commerce platform. After I left, the company was acquired and later vanished. I’m still sad about that.
I once ran a little company named Solutions Factory, from 1998 to 2003. We had a lot of fun, learned a lot, took our lumps and stayed alive after the web 1.0 bubble burst.
I still work/play at Squidoo with one of the greatest groups of people I’ve ever been around.
I play the bass, but not as often as I used to.
I also play sax. A little guitar and piano too.
I’m a husband and dad.
Those are my favorite titles.
I’ve had a terrific education.
- Terrific parents, who taught me most of what I still use every day
- Jaco Pastorius (bass, music in general)
- Web 1.0
- Seth Godin, since Permission Marketing
- Volunteering
- Cari, Kayla and Sara (Lily too)
- Web 2.0
- Quite a few lenses
- Amazon.com (sending me more books than I can count)
- The world’s greatest 8th grade English teacher, who assigned me a different reading list than the rest of the class
- The Starfish and the Spider
- css Zen Garden
- A grandfather who taught me about the printing industry (my first career)
- …and one who tells the greatest stories of all time
- Wikipedia
- University of Texas (briefly). Music Composition
- North Texas State University (also briefly). Music Composition
Posted by corey brown on July 13th, 2007
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