Chris Messina co-founded the Flock web browser and led the community marketing of Firefox. He also co-founded San Francisco-based Citizen Space and started the coworking and BarCamp communities. He was named one of the Digital Utopians and People Who Populate Web 2.0 by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is board member of the OpenID and Open Web Foundations, and a frequent speaker at technology conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo. He is quoted in The New York Times, Business Week, LA Times, MIT Technology Review and Wired. Chris received the 2008 Google Open Source Award in recognition for his work advancing technology initiatives such as OpenID, OAuth, Activity Streams and microformats.
