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Cegłowski speaking at the "dConstruct" conference in 2013

Maciej Cegłowski is a Polish-American web developer, businessman, speaker, and writer who is the owner of the bookmarking service Pinboard.[1][2][3]


Career

Cegłowski was born in Poland and emigrated to the United States in 1981.[4] He attended Middlebury College, where he studied Russian and French.[5] He then became a software developer working at Yahoo! in San Francisco.[6][7] He has also written for websites such as Wired.[8]

Speaking and writing

Cegłowski is particularly known for speaking at conferences on software development, and through his Twitter pages, which he uses to joke about the failings of other Silicon Valley companies.[9] and hyped ideas.[10][11] He has written and spoken extensively on the problems of advertising-funded services with dubious business models.[12][13][14] He has described programatically generated advertising and data mining as a business model that encourages the growth of surveillance.[14][15][16] In particular, Cegłowski has compared large stocks of data on Internet users to the archives of Communist secret police services in his native Eastern Europe, as a threat to user privacy that may increase as archives remain in existence.[17][18][19][20] He has also criticised immersive web design for being bloated and unsuitable for consumers with a poor internet connection.[4][21][22][23][24][23][21][4][25][26][27]

Cegłowski has also spoken at conferences about his experience of running his own company, including listening to users from the fandom community and "failing really, really slowly" (working on a project for a long time instead of looking for immediate success).[28][29] Cegłowski has discussed prioritising simplicity and stability over using cutting-edge technologies for building Pinboard in order to reduce cost and allow his company to remain simple and practical for a single person to run.[1][21][7]

References

  1. ^ a b Klint Finley (February 10, 2011). "Hacker Chat: Pinboard Creator Maciej Ceglowski Talks About Why Boring Architecture is Good, and More". ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteWeb. Retrieved December 30, 2011.
  2. ^ G.F. (April 4, 2011). "Price of fame: Stick a pin in it". Babbage. The Economist. Retrieved December 30, 2011. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ Tate, Ryan. "Meet the World's Cheapest Venture Capitalist". Wired. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  4. ^ a b c Cegłowski, Maciej. "Web Design: The First 100 Years". Idle Words. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  5. ^ "Middlebury College Students Receive Watson Fellowships". Middlebury College. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  6. ^ Dell, Kristina. "Entrepreneurs Who Go It Alone — By Choice". Time. Retrieved 20 April 2016. Ceglowski started Pinboard in response to the demise of Delicious, a social website that preceded both Facebook and Twitter. Yahoo bought Delicious in 2005 and removed many of the features users liked. "I thought it was becoming less useful," says Ceglowski, who worked at Yahoo in 2007 on a different venture.
  7. ^ a b Perrine, Tom. "An interview with Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard". Thuktun (blog). Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  8. ^ Cegłowski, Maciej. "How to Hide from the Internet while travelling". Wired. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  9. ^ Jon Evans (2016-04-09). "Dear Facebook, why are Facebook Comments so unremittingly terrible?". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-06-19. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  10. ^ Jon Evans (2015-11-21). "Money For Nothing For Everyone". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-06-19. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  11. ^ Richard Chirgwin (2016-03-30). "Love our open API? Talk to our lawyers, says If This Then That". The Register. Retrieved 2016-06-19. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  12. ^ Fister, Barbara. "Maciej Ceglowski's Internet Repair Kit". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  13. ^ Cegłowski, Maciej. "The Advertising Bubble". Idle Words (blog). Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  14. ^ a b Doctorow, Cory (2015-10-07). "Big Data's religious faith denies the reality of failed promises, privacy Chernobyls". Boing Boing. Retrieved 2016-06-19.
  15. ^ Zak Pollack (2016-01-15). "Digital Advertising at the Crossroads: Will Angry Consumers Block Brands?". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2016-06-19. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  16. ^ Doctorow, Cory (2015-11-03). "Big Data refusal: the nuclear disarmament movement of the 21st century". Boing Boing. Retrieved 2016-06-19.
  17. ^ Ethan Zuckerman (August 14, 2014). "The Internet's Original Sin". The Atlantic. Retrieved November 13, 2014. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  18. ^ Cegłowski, Maciej. "What Happens Next Will Amaze You". Idle Words (blog). Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  19. ^ Gruber, John. "Persuading David Simon". Daring Fireball. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  20. ^ Cegłowski, Maciej. "The Internet With a Human Face". Idle Words (blog). Beyond Tellerrand Conference. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  21. ^ a b c Cegłowski, Maciej. "The Website Obesity Crisis". Idle Words (blog). Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  22. ^ Dale, Brady. "Is Google's Fight With Facebook Undermining a Web That's Fair to Everyone?". Observer. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  23. ^ a b Gruber, John. "Maciej Ceglowski on why the modern web is so bloated and slow, and why it matters". Daring Fireball. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  24. ^ Doctorow, Cory (2016-01-01). "Tools, ads, and bad defaults: Web bloat continues unabated". Boing Boing. Retrieved 2016-06-19.
  25. ^ Doctorow, Cory (2015-10-05). "Botwars vs ad-tech: the origin story of universal surveillance on the Internet". Boing Boing. Retrieved 2016-06-19.
  26. ^ Jon Evans (2015-09-26). "I Like To Block It Block It". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-06-19. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  27. ^ Doctorow, Cory (2014-05-27). "The Internet With a Human Face: Maciej Cegłowski on the things we need to fix". Boing Boing. Retrieved 2016-06-19.
  28. ^ Matt Sheret (September 10, 2013). "Notes from dConstruct 2013". Government Digital Service. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
  29. ^ Ryan Tate (November 19, 2013). "Why the Most Ambitious of Tech Startups Should Fail Slowly". The Next Big Thing You Missed. Wired. Retrieved December 17, 2013. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
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