Jon Lebkowsky - Web Development, Social Software, and Blogs

Web Development, Social Software, and Blogs

Lebkowsky turned to web development, and formed Polycot Consulting with Jeff Kramer and Matt Sanders on September 12, 2001. He became an advocate of Open Source systems based on PHP, and later Ruby on Rails.

He was an early influential social software advocate and one of the instigators of the Social Software Alliance. He was also an early blogger blogger at Weblogsky. With Clay Shirky, he created You're It, a blogs about tags and . He also blogged at, and managed technology for, Worldchanging, an influential website focused on the future of sustainability that was inspired by the Viridian Design Movement.

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