Aaron Swartz (born 1986) is a writer, web developer, and entrepreneur. At age 14 he was a co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification. Since then he has become a member of the W3C's RDF Core Working Group, co-designed the formatting language Markdown with John Gruber, and been very involved in many other projects.

Aaron is currently working on Infogami, a startup that is building a new way to share information over the Web, as part of Y Combinator's first Summer Founders Program. Previously, he attended Stanford University for a year, before leaving to work on his company full-time. Infogami also recently joined reddit, another company that was involved with Y Combinator's inaugural session. Both products are now part of not a bug.

References

• Swartz, Aaron. "MusicBrainz: A Semantic Web Service", IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 76–77, Jan/Feb 2002.
• Swartz, A. and Hendler, J. "The Semantic Web: A Network of Content for the Digital City", Proceedings of the Second Annual Digital Cities Workshop, Kyoto, Japan, October 2001.

External links

• Personal website
• Infogami
• reddit
• not a bug
• Undergraduate Overachiever, Wired, September 2004

1986 births | IT Entrepreneurs | Living people | Computer programmers | Child entrepreneurs