Standards and Your Business

I am a lead writer at ReadWriteWeb.com, one of the leading blogs covering new web applications. Prior to RWW I was a lead writer at TechCrunch.

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As an attorney in Microsoft’s Interoperability Group, David Rudin specializes in legal, policy, and business issues arising from standards. David works closely with the product teams on topics covering the entire standards lifecycle, including the formation of standard setting organizations, governance, technology submissions, patent licensing obligations, disclosures, implementation issues, and general counseling. David’s practice focuses on media, DRM, and online standards related to areas such as optical disc format and content protection, music metadata, home networking, and website syndication. David has worked with standards organizations including the Open Web Foundation, SMPTE, W3C, DVD CCA, DLNA, DECE, DDEX, DVB, and AACS. Before joining Microsoft, David practiced law in Dow Lohnes’s Media and Information Technology group and was a software consultant in Lotus Development Corporation’s Architected Solutions Group. David holds a law degree and a Master of Science in Management Information Systems from Boston University.

Eran Hammer-Lahav is an active standards developer and advocate, working for Yahoo! as Director of Standards Development. Most recently was a founding member of the Open Web Foundation and the editor of the OAuth specification. Previously the founder of Nouncer, an internet startup building social content distribution technologies, focused on scalability and performance. Prior to Nouncer, Eran headed software development teams for financial institutions and managed IT for political and governmental organizations with focus on social networks. In 1994 Eran founded ‘A Different Stage’, the first online publishing house for Israeli literature, and published a short stories magazine. Eran attended the Tel Aviv University Film School.

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David Recordon is the Senior Open Programs Manager at Facebook, where he leads open source and open standards initiatives. He joined Facebook from Six Apart where he focused on platform strategies, and previously worked at VeriSign in the emerging business group. David has played a pivotal role in the development and popularization of key social media technologies, such as OpenID and OAuth. He collaborated with Brad Fitzpatrick in the development of OpenID, which has since become the most popular decentralized single-sign-on protocol in the history of the Web. In 2007, he became the youngest recipient of the Google-O’Reilly Open Source Award.

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Clara Shih joined salesforce.com in 2006 and is responsible for Enterprise Social Networking Alliances and Product Strategy. Previously, she was the product line director of AppExchange, salesforce.com’s online business applications marketplace, for which she led the development of the Checkout payment services for partner applications. Independently, Clara developed Faceconnector (formerly Faceforce) in 2007, the first business application on Facebook. She is the author of a new book, “The Facebook Era” (Prentice Hall) about how online social networking is tranforming customer relationships and how we approach sales and marketing.

Previously, Clara worked in strategy and business operations at Google and as a software developer at Microsoft. Clara holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science and economics from Stanford University, as well as a Master’s Degree in internet studies from Oxford, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar. She blogs at www.thefacebookera.com and is clarashih on twitter.

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