AmHr: Speakers' Bios

Profile

Over the last eleven years, Nathan Freitas' career has spanned the academic, corporate, and non-profit worlds, solving difficult problems through the thoughtful application of technology. His work has been built into Palm handhelds, on display at SIGGRAPH, included in Wikipedia, and covered in media ranging from Boing Boing and GigaOm, to the New York Times and Howard Rheingold's book "Smart Mobs". Nathan began programming at the age of six on a Radio Shack TRS-80 computer, and founded (and eventually sold) his first technology company, ThinAirApps with Jon Oakes, when he was twenty-four. His latest work has been focused on social media and user-generated digital marketplaces, the culmination of which is Cruxy.com, a cross between eBay and iTunes.