Ed Anuff

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Ed Anuff

Occupation entrepreneur

Ed Anuff is a serial entrepeneur who was most recently co-founder of Widgetbox (with Giles Goodwin and Dean Moses)[1], a marketplace for widgets, and the company's original CEO. Prior to founding Widgetbox, Anuff was co-founder of enterprise software company Epicentric (with Oliver Muoto)[2], a leading provider of Enterprise portal software. He served as Epicentric's first CEO, later assuming the roles of chairman and chief strategy officer. Prior to co-founding Epicentric, he was an executive at Wired (parent of Wired.com) resonsible for the launch of HotBot, one of the first news search engines, in May 1996 [3][4].

Anuff is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and author of the best selling Java Sourcebook, published by John Wiley & Sons, one of the first books on the Java programming language. In 2001, Anuff was also granted a key patent (US Patent # 6,327,628)[5] related to portal server software.

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  • Java Sourcebook

[edit] References

  1. ^ Dan Farber. "Widgetbox launches widget marketplace", ZDNet Blog, September 25, 2006. Retrieved on 2008-05-27. 
  2. ^ Erich Luening. "Epicentric unveils software for corporate portals", CNET News, July 6, 1999. Retrieved on 2008-05-27. 
  3. ^ HotBot History
  4. ^ CrunchBase
  5. ^ Business Wire. "Epicentric Granted Patent on Administration of Portal User Privileges; Patent Protects Key Component of Epicentric's Enterprise Portal Management System", Business Wire, December 4, 2001. Retrieved on 2008-05-27. 

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