Kevin Marks is author of the weblog Epeus Epigone. He was Vice President of Web Services at BT

BT Group

BT Group plc is a global telecommunications services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is one of the largest telecommunications services companies in the world and has operations in more than 170 countries. Through its BT Global Services division it is a major supplier of...

. He became Principal Engineer for Technorati

Technorati

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. By June 2008, Technorati was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media...

 after working for both Apple and the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

. At the TechCrunch event Realtime Stream Crunchup he announced that he would be joining BT to work together with JP Rangaswami

JP Rangaswami

JP Rangaswami lived in Calcutta for half his life before emigrating to the United Kingdom. He studied Economics and Statistics at the renowned St. Xavier's College, University of Calcutta, specializing in developmental economics...

. In May 2011 he began working at Salesforce.com. He is one of the founders of Microformats

Microformats

A microformat is a web-based approach to semantic markup which seeks to re-use existing HTML/XHTML tags to convey metadata and other attributes in web pages and other contexts that support HTML, such as RSS...

.

At the first BloggerCon

BloggerCon

BloggerCon was a user-focused conference for the blogger community that ran between 2003 and 2006. BloggerCon I and II , were organized by Dave Winer and friends at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society in Cambridge, Mass. Bloggercon III took place in San Francisco on...

, Marks discussed the power curve as it applies to weblogs:

The net changes the power law of the media curve. If you look at relative popularity on the web, using something like Technorati, you get a power curve that goes all the way down gradually, to the bottom where you see pages that got just a single click. If you look at popularity in the "real" world — best-selling books, or top music — the power curve drops like a stone from a very high level. That's because in order to get a book published, or a piece of music recorded, you have to convince somebody that you're going to sell a million copies. You end up in a zero-sum game, where people pour enormous resources into being the number one, because number two is only half as good. The promise of the net is that the power of all those little links can outweigh the power of the top ten.

In 2003, Marks was an early experimenter with and contributor to the technologies that became popular under the names podcasting

Podcasting

A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...

 and iPodder in 2004.

At the October 4, 2003, BloggerCon, Marks demonstrated (real audio file) a program that downloaded RSS

RSS (file format)

RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format...

-enclosure audio files and transferred them to Apple's iTunes

ITunes

iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

 music player, which could then synchronize them onto an iPod

IPod

iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the compact iPod Nano, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle...

. In his weblog post from the conference that day, Marks mentioned discussing the program with Adam Curry

Adam Curry

Adam Clark Curry is a broadcasting and Internet personality well known for his stint from 1987 to 1994 as a video jockey on the music video channel MTV. In the mid-1990s, Curry was a World Wide Web entrepreneur and one of the first celebrities to personally create and administer a Web site...

, who also blogged about their chat the next day.

Kevin Marks is on the Advisory Council of the Open Rights Group

Open Rights Group

The Open Rights Group is a UK-based organisation that works to preserve digital rights and freedoms by campaigning on digital rights issues, acting as a media clearinghouse service putting journalists in touch with experts, and by fostering a community of grassroots activists...

, a UK-based Digital Rights campaigning organisation.

Kevin previously worked for Google as a Developer Advocate on OpenSocial.

Awards

• 2006 Best Blog Guide - Technorati - Web 2.0 Awards
• 2006 Best of Show - Technorati - SXSW Awards
• 2006 Best Technical Achievement - Technorati - SXSW Awards
• 2002 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award -Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for Final Cut Pro
• 1998 Best Paper presented at MacHack 'Personality & Code'
• 1997 Japanese Wildlife Television Festival Multimedia Award - Wide World of Animals
• 1997 DTi Information Society Creative Award - Matter Factory
• 1996 Wildscreen Multimedia Award - Wide World of Animals
• 1995 MacUser Award - Best Reference title - 3D Atlas
• 1995 EMMA award for Best Information and Reference - 3D Atlas
• 1995 EMMA award for Best Overall CD-ROM title - 3D Atlas
• 1995 BIMA Gold award for Best Reference title - 3D Atlas
• 1994 Prix Möbius International finalist - 3D Atlas
• 1993 BIMA European Gold award - Erd Sicht