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at the MIX06 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada ]] Tim O'Reilly (born 1954 , Cork , Ireland ) is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) and a booster of the Free Software and Open Source movements. Tim 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 Media published the first book about the Web , devoting a whole chapter to it in 1992 when there were only 200 web sites in Ed Krol 's groundbreaking '' Whole Internet User's Guide And Catalog ''. O'Reilly Media also created the first web portal (and the first internet site to do advertising), the Global Network Navigator , or GNN, in 1993. GNN was sold to AOL in 1995 in one of the first big transactions of the Dot Com Boom . In 1997, after hearing that his company's book '' and FOO Camp . In 2001, Tim became involved in a major tiff with , and specifically, Amazon's offensive use of that patent against rival Barnesandnoble.com . The protest ended with Tim and Jeff Bezos visiting Washington D.C. to lobby for patent reform. (Since that time, Amazon has continued to file many patents, but has not repeated the offensive use of any patent. The Barnes & Noble case was settled.) Tim's current passion is understanding just how open source is changing the computing landscape, leading to the commoditization of the software infrastructure (just as the PC commoditized the hardware infrastructure), and the creation of a new kind of value in what Tim has been calling Web 2.0 , the internet as platform. He has coined the term Architecture Of Participation to refer to the techniques and incentives that are common to successful initiatives that harness user contributions. Tim was initially interested in literature upon graduating 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 Manuals . Tim is on the board of CollabNet , and was on the board of Macromedia until its 2005 merger with Adobe . He was also recently interviewed for Robert X. Cringely 's Vidcast NerdTV . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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