Chris Messina (open source advocate)

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Chris Messina
File:Chris Messina - 2016.jpg
Chris Messina in March 2016
Born (1981-01-07) January 7, 1981 (age 43)
USA
Occupation Open Web Advocate (Google)[1]
Open Source Advocate

Chris Messina (born January 7, 1981 in USA), aka FactoryJoe, is an open source and open standards advocate currently residing in San Francisco. Messina is best known for his idea to group messages on social media using a single character hash (#), now commonly known as Hashtags [2]

The use of the number sign in IRC inspired[3] Chris Messina to propose a similar system to be used on Twitter to tag topics of interest on the microblogging network. He posted the first hashtag on Twitter:

How do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]?
— Chris Messina, ("factoryjoe"), August 23, 2007[4]

Messina is also known for his involvement in helping to create the BarCamp, Spread Firefox, and coworking[5] movements. Messina is an active proponent of microformats and OAuth.

Career

Messina was formerly employed as an Open Source Advocate at identity company Vidoop and before that was the co-founder of marketing agency Citizen Agency. He worked at Google as an Open Web Advocate,[1] leaving to join startup NeonMob.[6] He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003[7] with a BA in Communication Design.

Messina co-founded Citizen Agency, a company which describes itself as "Internet consultancy that specializes in developing community-centric strategies around product research, design, development and marketing"[8] with Tara Hunt and Ben Metcalfe, who has since left the company.

Messina is an advocate of open-source, most notably Firefox and Flock. As a volunteer for the Spread Firefox campaign, he designed the 2004 Firefox advert which appeared in The New York Times on December 16, 2004.[9] In 2008 he won a Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for Best Community Amplifier for BarCamp, Microformats and Spread Firefox.[10]

In the beginning 2016, Messina Joined Uber to lead their Developer Experience team.[11]

Press

Messina was featured with Hunt, also his ex-girlfriend, in "So Open it Hurts", in San Francisco Magazine (August, 2008).[12] The article detailed their very public and open relationship shared on the internet, and the lessons they derived from that experience.

Messina is also credited with introducing the "hashtag" to Twitter.[13][14]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Happy Birthday, Chris Messina, And Enjoy Advocating The Open Web At Google. TechCrunch (2010-01-07). Retrieved on 2014-05-23.
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  6. ↑ Yesterday was my last day at Google.
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  8. ↑ CitizenAgency.com
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