Mark Graham

Summary

Mark is Director of the Wayback Machine, at the Internet Archive. See: https://archive.org/about/faqs.php#The_Wayback_Machine Mark was Senior Vice President, & General Manager of Stringwire, an NBCUniversal News Group company, and managed their San Francisco office. Mark managed iVillage-West, the SF-based product and software development branch of the core NY-based iVillage organization, contributing a range of services for the company including vendor selection and management, product development, technology assessment, and general business development. Under his leadership as Vice President, and later Senior Vice President, Mark was General Manager of two profitable iVillage business units, Astrology.com and GardenWeb, where he drove the development of new web and mobile product development, delivery methods, marketing campaigns, and a diversified set of revenue streams. Mark co-founded Rojo Networks in 2003, an early RSS aggregation and reputation enhanced personal news service (which was sold to Six Apart). Prior, he led business development and technology for The WELL, and developed WELL Engaged, the first web-based interface for online forums. He was also president of the ISP Whole Earth Networks. As an early internet pioneer, in 1992, Mark was responsible for building AOL's first interface to Internet based services, and prior to that work, in 1990 he managed technical operations for the US side of the US-Soviet email venture Sovam Teleport. In 1984 he co-founded one of the first online communities for progressive social change, PeaceNet and later IGC.org and APC.org Mark's introduction to computer-mediated communications and networks began in 1980 when he was a member of the technical staff at the Air Force Data Services Center stationed at the Pentagon. Mark is senior technical advisor to the education non-profit ISKME.org in the development of the world's largest OER public library and authoring platform http://www.oercommons.org.