Jordan Ritter
Encyclopedia
Career
Jordan Ritter is the Chief Technology Officer of CloudCrowdCloudCrowd
CloudCrowd was founded by Alex Edelstein and Jordan Ritter and operates in the crowdsourcing space. CloudCrowd has created a labor operating system; an on-demand online workforce of 25,000...
a company in the crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is the act of sourcing tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals to a group of people or community through an open call....
space that he co-founded with Alex Edelstein
Alex Edelstein
Alex Edelstein is a high-tech business executive and reality television participant.-Career:Alex Edelstein is the Chief Executive Officer of Servio a company in the crowdsourcing space that he co-founded with Jordan Ritter in 2009...
in 2009. He was the co-founder of the original Napster
Napster
Napster is an online music store and a Best Buy company. It was originally founded as a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service that emphasized sharing audio files that were typically digitally encoded music as MP3 format files...
and developed the original technology with Shawn Fanning
Shawn Fanning
Shawn Fanning is an American computer programmer, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer file sharing platforms, in 1998. The popularity of Napster was widespread and Fanning was featured on the cover of Time magazine...
. He was the Chief Server Architecture and supported 60 million users in one year. He founded CloudMark in 2001 with Vipul Ved Prakash, an anti-spam email system based on peer review. Jordan Ritter was the CTO of Columbia Music Entertainment
Columbia Music Entertainment
is a Japanese record label founded in 1910 as . It affiliated itself with the Columbia Graphophone Company of the United Kingdom and adopted the standard UK Columbia trademarks in 1931. The company changed its name to Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd. in 1946. It used the Nippon Columbia name until...
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Investments
Jordan Ritter invested in Zivity, a social network platform geared toward sexy models and photographers.Open Source
Jordan Ritter is a supporter of the free software movementFree software movement
The free software movement is a social and political movement with the goal of ensuring software users' four basic freedoms: the freedom to run their software, to study and change their software, and to redistribute copies with or without changes. The alternative terms "software libre", "open...
and has published his work under open-source licensees. He has authored free software Including Windows Software licensed by Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
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