Byrne Reese is a long time technology blogger and entrepreneur. It was his experience in blogging that led him to join Six Apart, the company that pioneered the blogging industry, as a Product Manager. In the four years that he has been there he has product managed TypePad, the Platform Technology group, Advertising and Movable Type. Byrne played a key role in the launch of Movable Type 4 and of the Movable Type Open Source Project. He has a long history of supporting and contributing to open source projects as well and advocated heavily for open web standards like OpenID and the Atom Publishing Protocol.