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Brad Templeton's Home Page

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Welcome to my web home page -- a collection of my various essays on technology topics, comedy, my software, my popular photography sub-site, and of course, an exercise in net.narcissism. Also found here are sites for some of my famous family members, with two books and a comic series.

ClariNet

You may know me because I was the founder and publisher of ClariNet Communications Corp., the world's first ever ".com" company (by which I mean a business based on the internet rather than one like uu.net which sold connectivity itself) and which was also the net's first and for a long time largest electronic newspaper. I founded ClariNet in 1989 with the crazy idea of trying to make money publishing professional information over the net and to the net audience. It came to take up almost all my time. ClariNet has quite a detailed web page where you can read all about what they do. I built it up to by far the largest paid subscription base on the net, and then In June of 1997, I sold ClariNet to Individual, Inc. which also publishes online news.

I left ClariNet in 1998 after Individual merged with Desktop Data to form Newsedge Corporation. Newsedge's strong focus on business news delivery is the right strategy, but I decided to take a new direction. Since then I've done various part-time projects, including a founding role in Topica and investment in fountain-of-youth firm Sierra Sciences, plus sadly a few startups that could have used a fountain of youth. In addition to the nonprofit boards listed here, I'm on the board of VC funded BitTorrent Inc., commercializing the most popular large file publishing software on the net. I am also working now on a great plan for the next hot-internet-killer-app-make-a-billion company and am recruiting other people to help make it happen. (I won't be CEO this time but will provide the patented technology and funding, among other things.) Read here if you are looking for such opportunities.