Randy Charles Morin

Randy Charles Morin (born May 20, 1969 in Cobalt, Ontario) is a professional RVer and blogger. He runs the infamous TalkSports website. He was chairman of the RSS Advisory Board,[1] a group that assists developers in using the RSS 2.0 specification. Randy authored the RSS autodiscovery specification and contributed largely to the RSS profile.

In 2005, Morin began Rmail, a self-funded web venture that enabled RSS feeds to be read over email. The site grew to more than 50,000 subscribers, and in April 2007 he sold it to the broadcast network NBC.[2] NBC digital media executive George Kliavkoff said the acquisition would enable the company to "make predictive understandings of what they might be interested in and start learning about RSS." The TV network rebranded the service as SendMeRSS.

Morin began TalkSports after a 2005 blog post he wrote about hockey player Sidney Crosby received a comment from a female inquiring whether Crosby had a girlfriend. He explained to Drama Scene Live Radio in an interview, "Google immediately picked up that new comment and within a few days that page was getting 1,000 hits per day. And I thought, I've got an idea ..."[3]

He graduated from the University of Windsor in 1990 and lives in Brampton, Ontario. He is the father of Adelaine Morin, a YouTube sensation.

Bibliography

He authored and co-authored several technical books.

In the news

References

  1. ↑ "Randy becomes Chairman of RSS".
  2. ↑ Reuters (2007-05-01). "NBC Universal looks to feed off Rmail". Retrieved 2008-11-11.
  3. ↑ "Let's talk sports ... it's not what you know but what you can prove". Drama Scene Live Radio. Aug 11, 2010. Retrieved May 11, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Randy Joins the RSS Advisory Board".
  5. ↑ "Randy Charles Morin Becomes RSS Advisory Board Chairman".

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