Anne Zelenka: Anne 2.0

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Anne Zelenka is a web technologist, blogger, and industry analyst who lives and works in Denver, Colorado. She works with RedMonk as an analyst and serves as lead writer for Web Worker Daily. Her main technology blog is tech decentral at RedMonk.

Her writing and research explores the gaps and linkages across a mix of topics including social media, next-generation web tools, enterprise software development, behavioral economics, Western approaches to Buddhism, and virtual teams. Prior to launching Anne 2.0 in late 2005, she was on hiatus from the workforce for five years. During that break, she dabbled in stay-at-home motherhood, rode the real estate bubble from Palo Alto to McLean to Maui, meditated inconsistently, and produced The Barely Attentive Mother, a now-defunct mommyblog.

Anne's technology career v1.0 started in 1993 in Silicon Valley, when she convinced defense contractor Delfin Systems to hire her for a Unix programming job even though she didn't have a computer science degree. She experienced the first Internet boom with box seats, at a small startup that went on to be acquired and later at database behemoth Oracle. Anne holds a bachelor's degree in economics and philosophy and master's degree in statistics from Stanford University. She learned to program at age 13 on her dad's home computer and has been a computing enthusiast ever since.

Anne lives in Denver with her husband, three children, and dog.