About

In 1995, Brian Alvey designed the first TV Guide website and helped BusinessWeek leap from AOL to the web. Brian built database-driven web applications and content management systems for many large companies in the 90's including Intel, J.D. Edwards, Deloitte & Touche and The McGraw-Hill Companies. His 1999 Tech-Engine site was a "skinnable HotJobs" which powered over 200 online career centers including XML.com, Perl.com, O'Reilly & Associates Network, DevShed and Computer User magazine. He has been the art director of three print magazines and was the Chief Technology Officer of Rising Tide Studios where he developed The Venture Reporter Network, which is now a Dow Jones property.

In 2002, Brian was the creator and host of the Meet The Makers conference, a series of talk show-style events. In 2003, he invented and launched Blogstakes, a sweepstakes application for the blogging community. Brian partnered with web design guru Jeffrey Zeldman in Happy Cog to build content management systems for customers including Capgemini, A List Apart and the Kansas City Chiefs.

In 2004, Brian Alvey and Jason Calacanis created the publishing company Weblogs, Inc. – home to such category leading blogs as Engadget, Autoblog, Joystiq, TUAW, TV Squad, Cinematical, Download Squad, WOW Insider and Slashfood. AOL acquired Weblogs, Inc. in October 2005. In June 2006, Brian also became the chief architect of Netscape and lead the development team which turned the struggling portal into a thriving social news site.

In November 2006, AOL acquired Blogsmith, Brian's enterprise-grade blog publishing platform. Today AOL uses Blogsmith to power hundreds of popular sites including Asylum, PopEater, Blogging Stocks, AOL Radio, Fanhouse, Black Voices, Spinner, The Boot, MMA Fighting, Paw Nation and Love.com.

In June 2007, Brian left AOL to work with comic book industry veterans Mike Gold and Glenn Hauman on ComicMix and with long-time friend Craig Wood on Crowd Fusion. Crowd Fusion's content management service is powering large-scale web applications for a handful of large customers.

Brian graduated from TCU with a degree in Physics and Astronomy and minors in Art and Mathematics. Brian works from home in Westchester County, NY.

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