NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Adam Curry

Adam Clark Curry (born September 3, 1964 in Washington, D.C.) 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. In the 2000s, he helped pioneer podcasting, and is often called the 'Podfather' because of his efforts.^[1] He pilots his own Cessna 182 RG. He is married to Dutch singer Patricia Paay; they have one daughter, Christina. He is also a co-crank on CrankyGeeks with John Dvorak. This article is about the filmmaker. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 Ã— 600 pixelsFull resolution (2560 Ã— 1920 pixel, file size: 2. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 Ã— 600 pixelsFull resolution (2560 Ã— 1920 pixel, file size: 2. ... is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ... Video Jockey or VJ is a term coined in the early 1980s to describe the fresh faced youth who introduced the music videos on MTV. The word VJ is also used to represent video performance artists who create live visuals on all kind of music. ... A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ... This article is about the original U.S. music television channel. ... WWWs historical logo designed by Robert Cailliau The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. ... An orange square with waves indicates that an RSS feed is present on a web page. ... The Cessna 182, marketed under the name Skylane, is a four-seat, high performance, single-engine, light airplane. ... Patricia Paay (born April 7, 1949) was well known in the Netherlands in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s for her contribution to popular music. ...

The Web and MTV.com

In the late 1980s, before the World Wide Web, in the days of Gopher, Curry began experimenting on the Net. He registered the then-unclaimed domain name "mtv.com" in 1993 with the idea of being MTV's unofficial new voice on the Internet. Although this move was sanctioned by his superiors at MTV Networks at the time, when Adam left to start his own web-portal company, OnRamp, MTV subsequently sued him for the domain name, which led to an out-of-court settlement.^[2] Gopher is a distributed document search and retrieval network protocol designed for the Internet. ... The term domain name has multiple related meanings: A name that identifies a computer or computers on the internet. ... MTV Networks is a division of media conglomerate Viacom that oversees the operation of many TV network and Internet brands, including the first MTV channel. ...

Adam left MTV in 1994 and founded OnRamp, Inc., a Web design and hosting company. He eventually grew the company to 40 employees and sold it to THINK New Ideas, Inc., another company that he co-founded. He became Chief Technology Officer of THINK. In 1996, as the Internet was undergoing its legendary "bubble", the company made an initial public offering on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol THNK. It subsequently grew to employ over 400 people and have offices in seven countries, and was absorbed into Answerthink, Inc. in a later merger. Chief Technical Officer or Chief Technology Officer, usually seen as CTO, is a business executive position whose holder is focussed on technical issues in a company. ... â€œIPOâ€ redirects here. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ...

Back to Europe

After selling his business in the US, Curry and his family returned to work in the Netherlands in 1999. He pursued his radio and television career by presenting a morning talk/music show for his former employer, Veronica Radio. It was discontinued in September 2004. He carried out several loose television assignments and his family briefly starred in the reality soap Adam's Family. ^[3] Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic - President George Walker Bush (R) - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from...

Curry and two business partners founded the multimedia company United Resources of Jamby in 1999. It was to act as an incubator and cultivator for new Internet-related businesses. The business was unsuccessful. The participation in Kennisnet, a venture to introduce Internet to Dutch schools ended in a bitter argument and lawsuits over incorrect European invitation to tender.^[4] Sportus.nl, an online webshop in cooperation with Dutch sporters like Marcel Wouda, Jacco Eltingh, Ron Zwerver and Daniëlle Overgaag, started in 1999, went bankrupt in 2001.^[5] And a prestigious content exchange project called Freedom Controller^[6] was cancelled in 2002.^[7] Kennisnet is a Dutch public Internet organization dedicated to the primary, secondary education and vocational training. ... Marcel Reinier Wouda, born January 23, 1972 in Tilburg, Netherlands is a former swimmer, who became Hollands first world champion when he won the world title in the 200 individual medley at the FINA World Championships in Perth, Australia in 1998. ... Jacco Folkert Eltingh (born August 29, 1970 in Heerde) is a former professional male tennis player and former world number one doubles player from the Netherlands. ... Ronald (Ron) Ferdinand Zwerver (born June 6, 1967 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland) is a retired volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. ...

In 2000 he and his business partner Simon Cavendish, who had also participated in his earlier ventures, founded the RotorJet company which was to offer helicopter services to a select audience. The company went bankrupt in 2005. In a subsequent dispute, Cavendish seized the assets of the company. In April 2005, Adam Curry was ordered by the Dutch Court to restitute approximately two million American dollars which he had withdrawn from RotorJet.^[8]

In 2004, the Curry family, who had resided in Belgium since 1999, moved their home to the United Kingdom. They currently reside in Guildford, Surrey, in what some and Adam himself refer to as "The Curry Manor" on his podcast, The Daily Source Code. Curry also owns a condominium in San Francisco, California, ("Curry Condo") which he uses for his frequent business trips to the city. In summer 2006, he and his wife began looking to purchase their own home in the UK. , For other places with the same name, see Guildford (disambiguation). ... This article is about the English county. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 kmÂ²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ...

On July 2, 2006, Adam's mother, Valerie Gail Clark (Breezy), died after a 2-year battle with cancer.^[9]During the same month, a younger cousin of Adam Curry, Timothy Curry, was arrested in Amsterdam for the possession of several illegal drugs. This caused some minor controversies in the Dutch media, especially local news in Amsterdam.

Podcasting

Adam Curry is involved in the development and promotion of podcasting. He produces and presents a podcast named Daily Source Code. He did not invent the podcasting technology, but was one of the first to create a successful podcast show. He is a prominent figure in podcasting and he was a key figure at BloggerCon 2004, held at Stanford Law School. Media interviewers and others often refer to Curry as "the podfather".^[10] This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... BloggerCon is a user-focused conference for the blogger community. ... Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located near Palo Alto, California in Silicon Valley. ...

Curry founded PodShow, Inc., along with business partner, Ron Bloom, in January 2005. Venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital have invested nearly $9 million into PodShow.^[12] PodShow is a podcast promotions and advertising company that encompasses the Podshow Podcast Network, the Podcast Delivery Network (launched on July 4, 2006), and the Podsafe Music Network. Some of Podshow's top podcasts are Curry's own Daily Source Code, The Dawn and Drew Show, GeekBrief.TV through PodShow.^[12] As of the end of 2006 PodShow's total amount of venture capital investments have risen to approximately $23m. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers is a major Sand Hill Road venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. ... Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. ... Podsafe Music Network, or PMN, is currently the primary archive of podsafe music (music available for use in podcasting without significant licensing difficulties) on the internet. ... The Dawn and Drew Show is a podcast by married couple Dawn Miceli and Drew Domkus (formerly of the Scaterd Few). ... GeekBrief. ...

As of June 2005, Curry hosts a show on Sirius Satellite Radio, entitled Adam Curry's PodShow, running from 6 to 10 p.m. EST on weekdays.^[13] The radio show features arguably "The Best of Podcasting". Also in June of 2005 he started the iTunes podcast PodFinder, a guide to podcasts for new listeners. Sirius Satellite Radio NASDAQ: SIRI is one of two satellite radio (SDARS) services operating in the United States and Canada, along with XM Satellite Radio. ... EST is UTC-5 The North American Eastern Standard Time Zone (abbreviated EST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting five hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) resulting in UTC-5. ... This article is about the iTunes application. ...

Since around the time of Daily Source Code episode 380 (aired May 4, 2006),^[14] Curry has been promoting Daily Source Code in Second Life under the name Adam Neumann via Curry Castle.^[14] is the 124th day of the year (125th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Second Life (abbreviated as SL) is an Internet-based virtual world launched in 2003, developed by Linden Research, Inc (commonly referred to as Linden Lab), which came to international attention via mainstream news media in late 2006 and early 2007. ...

Controversies

Wikipedia

Some controversy was caused by four edits Curry made to the podcasting article on Wikipedia during 2005, which appeared to boost his role in the creation of podcasting by removing mention of early work by others.^[15] Curry later apologized, saying he had not understood how to use Wikipedia editing functions and had been unaware of some of the prior work done by Kevin Marks. Wikipedia (IPA: , or ( ) is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization. ... Kevin Marks in 2006 Kevin Marks is author of the weblog Epeus Epigone and a software engineer at Google. ...

Newspaper lawsuit

In late February 2006, Adam sued the Dutch tabloid Weekend for reprinting photos from his Flickr page and publishing details about his daughter.^[16] The photos were released under a version of the Creative Commons license, which forbids commercial use and requires acknowledgement, but the tabloid printed a few of them without contacting Curry. The verdict of the lawsuit did not reward Curry, but required the tabloid to pay 1,000 euros for each photo used if they published the photos again. The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share. ... To licence or grant licence is to give permission. ...

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