Dale Dougherty - Technology and the Democratization of Craft

February 28, 2009
Mountain View, CA

Dale Dougherty is the founding editor and publisher of Make and Craft magazines, both of which focus on DIY projects, and the creator of Maker Faire, which showcases creative communities. He has been instrumental in many of O'Reilly's most important efforts, working closely with Tim O'Reilly to establish O'Reilly as a leading technical publisher. An early web pioneer, he was the developer and publisher of Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial web site launched in 1993 and sold to America Online in 1995. He was developer and publisher of Web Review, the online magazine for web designers from 1995 to 1999, which was sold to CMP in 1999. He developed the Hacks Series of books in 2003, which includes the bestselling Google Hacks and Excel Hacks. He coined the term Web 2.0 as part of developing the Web 2.0 Conference.