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The creator of the “wiki” is making a huge career change to become the Chief Technology Officer of AboutUs.org, he will be leaving the Eclipse Foundation where he was the Director of Committer Community Development. Mr. Cunningham invented the concept and pioneered the technology behind the wiki in 1994 where he originally deployed it on his domain C2.com. A few years later another site started using his wiki technology, you may know the company… Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales the founder of Wikipedia made Ward’s technology famous and is now known as the most famous wiki person in the world. Mr. Cunningham plans to bring wikis to the next level at AboutUs. He and his team are working on creating a wiki about all companies in the world. It started with Domain names over 9 months ago and the website has doubled in traffic every 3 months and now ranks in the top 3000 websites in the world and in the top 10 wikis in the world. The growth curve is very simaliar to Wikipedia’s growth curve in the early days.

Ward Cunningham has a long career of accomplishments, not only did he invent the wiki, he also created Design Patterns and Extreme Programming.

I want to wish Ward a hardy welcome to the AboutUs team as I step down as active CTO and he takes my title. I will remain on the board of AboutUs and advising the comany on growth. My full-time job is at Name Intelligence and we will continue to help AboutUs grow its sever farm as they continue to crush the servers they resides on. It seems every few months we need to throw more servers behind the load balancers and troubleshoot load issues.