About: Over the past 20 years my work has focused on creating the technology and applications that will enable daily media consumers to become daily media producers. My work encompasses the theory, design, and development of digital media systems that leverage contextual metadata and the power of community to enable people to produce, describe, share, and remix media. From 2002 to 2006, I served as Assistant Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information where I directed Garage Cinema Research and co-founded the UC Berkeley Center for New Media. At Garage Cinema Research, we developed and deployed Mobile Media Metadata (MMM) prototypes for context-aware mobile media tagging and sharing, and technologies for video capture, tagging, and remixing. In 2005, I worked with Yahoo! Inc. and UC Berkeley to create Yahoo! Research Berkeley where I served as Founding Director. At Yahoo! Research Berkeley we launched a number of public prototypes in mobile media and social media: ZoneTag, TagMaps, Zurfer, Remixer, and Zync. In 2006, I joined Yahoo! as Social Media Guru to formulate strategy and take action to invent and realize the future of social media and mobile media. In that capacity, I lead the ESP (Early Stage Product) team in Yahoo! Connected Life focusing on the future intersections of mobile, social, media, monetization, and platforms.
