Our Showoff selection panel for Twiistup 3 is growing! Mark will also lend his expertise towards selecting the top applicants to showoff at Twiistup 3. Big thanks to Mark for taking time away from his busy Mahalo schedule to help us out!
Mark Jeffrey is an American internet entrepreneur and novelist. He has co-founded three companies and written two novels. He is currently CTO of Mahalo.com, Inc., a new human-powered search engine backed by Sequoia Capitol, CBS, Newscorp, Elon Musk and others. He is the author of Max Quick Book One: The Pocket and the Pendant and Max Quick Book Two: The Two Travelers.
Previously, Jeffrey co-founded social networking company ZeroDegrees, Inc. which he then sold to IAC/InteractiveCorp in 2004 with more than one million registered users. The podcast audiobook version of novel, Max Quick Book One: The Pocket and the Pendant, released in 2005, has received over 1.7 million downloads to date.
Mark Jeffrey’s first company, The Palace, Inc., was backed by Time Warner, Intel and Softbank and sold to Communities.com in 1998. The Palace was a popular avatar virtual world environment that grew to 10 million users at its peak. It was selected ‘The Best of 1996′ by Entertainment Weekly and received numerous awards including a Webby Award nomination; “Cool Innovation of the Year†nominee; Chicago SUN-Times` Best Website: 1998. Palace servers were run by brand marketers including Comedy Central (South Park), Ralph Lauren, Artisan Entertainment (Blair Witch), Capitol Records, Wired, Playboy, CBS, and numerous others.
He also was the co-founder and CEO of SuperSig, Inc. in 1999, an html email company with customers including Williams-Sonoma, ITXC (a VoIP company), and Yahoo / Launch Media.
Mark has been named on of ‘50 to Watch’ by Variety Magazine, selected as one of the “Digital Coast 50′ by Silicon Alley Reporter magazine, and one of the “Heroes of Multimedia†by Entertainment Weekly. He was also featured speaker at the very first Harvard University Conference on the Internet and Society in 1996.
Source: wikipedia
Have something you want to showoff at Twiistup 3 on January 15 2008? Apply here before November 15.