Maciej Cegłowski

Cegłowski speaking at the "dConstruct" conference in 2013

Maciej Cegłowski is a Polish-American web developer, businessman and writer who is the owner of the bookmarking service Pinboard.[1][2][3][4] He formerly worked at Yahoo![5]

Cegłowski has publicised his business through his Twitter pages, which he uses to joke about the failings of other Silicon Valley companies. A frequent speaker at conferences on software development, he is known for criticising advertising-funded services with dubious business models.[6] He has described programatically generated advertising as a model that encourages the growth of surveillance, and 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.[7][8][9][10] He has also criticised immersive web design for being bloated and unsuitable for consumers with a poor internet connection.[11][12][13][14]

Cegłowski has spoken at conferences about his experience running Pinboard, 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).[15][16] 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][12][17]

Cegłowski was born in Poland and emigrated to the United States in 1981.[11] He attended Middlebury College, where he studied Russian and French.

References

  1. 1 2 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.
  3. ↑ Tate, Ryan. "Meet the World's Cheapest Venture Capitalist". Wired. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Cegłowski, Maciej. "How to Hide from the Internet while travelling". Wired. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Cegłowski, Maciej. "The Advertising Bubble". Idle Words (blog). Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  7. ↑ Ethan Zuckerman (August 14, 2014). "The Internet's Original Sin". The Atlantic. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
  8. ↑ Cegłowski, Maciej. "What Happens Next Will Amaze You". Idle Words (blog). Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  9. ↑ Gruber, John. "Persuading David Simon". Daring Fireball. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  10. ↑ Cegłowski, Maciej. "The Internet With a Human Face". Idle Words (blog). Beyond Tellerrand Conference. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  11. 1 2 Cegłowski, Maciej. "Web Design: The First 100 Years". Idle Words. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  12. 1 2 Cegłowski, Maciej. "The Website Obesity Crisis". Idle Words (blog). Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  13. ↑ Dale, Brady. "Is Google’s Fight With Facebook Undermining a Web That’s Fair to Everyone?". Observer. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  14. ↑ Gruber, John. "Maciej Ceglowski on why the modern web is so bloated and slow, and why it matters". Daring Fireball. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  15. ↑ Matt Sheret (September 10, 2013). "Notes from dConstruct 2013". Government Digital Service. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ Perrine, Tom. "An interview with Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard". Thuktun (blog). Retrieved 20 April 2016.

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