Dave Sifry is an American

United States

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 software entrepreneur and blogosphere icon known for founding Technorati

Technorati

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, a leading blog

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 search engine

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. He also lectures widely on wireless technology and policy, weblogs, and open source software.

Sifry grew up on Long Island

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, and learned to program on a Commodore PET

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. He decided that he would move to Silicon Valley

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 and start a company when he was still a teen. After studying computer science at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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, he worked for Mitsubishi

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.

Sifry cofounded Sputnik, a Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi

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 gateway company, Linuxcare

Linuxcare

Linuxcare was founded in San Francisco in 1998 by Dave Sifry, Arthur Tyde and Dave LaDuke. The company's initial goal was to be "the 800 number for Linux" and operate 24 hours a day...

, and Offbeat Guides.

He has been a founding member of the board of Linux International

Linux International

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, and a technical advisor to the National Cybercrime Training Partnership for law enforcement.

External links

• Sifry’s Alerts, Dave’s personal blog.
• Technorati management team official page, reference for much of the above
• David Sifry podcast, PodLeaders, 2006-04-05
• Ten Questions with David Sifry, Signal Without Noise, 2006-07-09
• David Sifry on Technorati and entrepreneurship Video
• David Sifry on the state of the Net, Video interview, 2008-02-09
• David Sifry in Inc. magazine, January 2006