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Ed Anuff
Ed Anuff
Occupation	entrepreneur
Website	http://www.anuff.com

Ed Anuff is an entrepreneur and Head of Product at Datastax. Prior to Datastax, he was Vice President of Product Strategy at Apigee.^[1] He is the founder of cloud based service Usergrid. Prior to Usergrid, he served as Executive Vice President and GM, Platform Products and Services at Six Apart, Ltd.^[2]

Career edit

Prior to joining Datastax, Anuff founded cloud service Usergrid. Apigee acquired Usergrid in January 2012.^[3] Prior to Usergrid, he served as Executive Vice President and GM, Platform Products and Services at Six Apart, Ltd.^[2]

Before joining Six Apart Anuff was co-founder of Widgetbox (with Giles Goodwin and Dean Moses),^[4] a marketplace for widgets. He was the company's original CEO. Prior to founding Widgetbox, Anuff was co-founder of enterprise software company Epicentric (with Oliver Muoto),^[5] a leading provider of Enterprise portal software. He served as Epicentric's first CEO, later assuming the roles of chairman and chief strategy officer.

Prior to co-founding Epicentric, he was an executive at Wired (parent of Wired.com) responsible for the launch of HotBot, one of the first news search engines, in May 1996.^[6]

Anuff is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and author of the best selling Java Sourcebook, published by John Wiley & Sons, one of the first books on the Java programming language.

Patents edit

In 2001, Anuff was also granted a key patent (US Patent # 6,327,628)^[7] related to portal server software.

In 2010, Anuff and eight coworkers were granted US Patent # 7,801,990,^[8]^[9] "Graphical user interface for performing administration on web components of web sites in a portal framework".

Books edit

Java Sourcebook

References edit

^ Pickavet, Henry (2016-03-21). "Almost everyone is doing the API economy wrong". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
^ ^a ^b "Six Apart resurrects Pownce in new microblogging platform". Retrieved 2016-09-10.
^ "Apigee Acquires Mobile App API Provider Usergrid | Apigee". apigee.com. Retrieved 2016-09-10.
^ Dan Farber (September 25, 2006). "Widgetbox launches widget marketplace". ZDNet Blog. Archived from the original on 2008-09-15. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
^ Erich Luening (July 6, 1999). "Epicentric unveils software for corporate portals". CNET News. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
^ HotBot History
^ Business Wire (December 4, 2001). "Epicentric Granted Patent on Administration of Portal User Privileges; Patent Protects Key Component of Epicentric's Enterprise Portal Management System". Business Wire. Retrieved 2008-05-27. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)
^ "Graphical user interface for performing administration on web components of web sites in a portal framework".
^ "New patent - Ed Anuff". www.anuff.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07.