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Tim O'Reilly
Born	June 6, 1954 ( 1954 -06-06) (age 55) Cork, Ireland
Occupation	Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media
Website http://tim.oreilly.com

Tim O'Reilly (Irish: Tadhg Ó Raghallaigh) (born June 6, 1954) is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) and a supporter of the free software and open source movements. He is widely, but wrongly, credited with coining the term Web 2.0.

O'Reilly was initially interested in literature upon graduating from high school, but after graduating from Harvard College in 1975 with a B.A. cum laude in Classics he became involved in the field of computer user manuals. He defines his company not as a book or online publisher, or as a conference producer (though the company does all three), but as a technology transfer company, "changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators." O'Reilly is on the board of CollabNet, and was on the board of Macromedia until its 2005 merger with Adobe Systems. In March 2007, he joined MySQL AB’s Board of Directors.

In 2001, O'Reilly was involved in a dispute with Amazon.com, leading a protest against Amazon's one-click patent, and specifically, Amazon's assertion of that patent against rival barnesandnoble.com. The protest ended with O'Reilly and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos visiting Washington D.C. to lobby for patent reform.

See also

• Infoware
• Web 2.0
• O'Reilly Media
• Make
• Foo Camp

External links

• tim.oreilly.com O'Reilly's home page and archive
• "Tech guru Tim O'Reilly challenges next generation to get serious" - Los Angeles Times
• FUTURIST magazine interview with O'Reilly, Re: Future of Publishing
• Watching the Alpha Geeks Audio of O'Reilly's 2002 talk at SDForum
• The Software Paradigm Shift Audio of O'Reilly's 2003 interview with IT Conversations
• NerdTV Interview (video, audio, and transcript available) - 29 September 2005
• Tim O'Reilly interview - O'Reilly on Linux PC Pro interview covering Linux, Java and books
• The Trend Spotter Wired Magazine profile - October 2005, "Tim O'Reilly built an empire on computer manuals and conferences that make sense of new technologies. Along the way he became the guru of the participation age."
• Tim O'Reilly on social media video, November 2007
• Tim on Twitter
• Nine questions on the state and the future of web2.0 video, November 2008
• 7 minutes of Tim O'Reilly at Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin video
• Tim O'Reilly talks about Govt 2.0 at Aspen Ideas Festival, July 2009 video
• Tim O'Reilly on FLOSS Weekly

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For a typical author, obscurity is a far greater threat than piracy.

Tim O'Reilly (born 6 June 1954) is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly and Associates) that specializes in technology transfer through book publishing, the internet and conferences.

Sourced

• Collective intelligence. Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications... We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected.
  • When asked "What innovation will most alter how we live in the next few years, as quoted in TIME magazine (24 October 2005)

• For a typical author, obscurity is a far greater threat than piracy.
  • Sunday Tribune magazine (25 September 2005)

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