Corey Brown

I launched my first web project in April 1995, and I was immediately hooked. Since then, I've been helping people and companies figure out what to do online (and how to build it).

I love white boards, Google Docs, Basecamp, Evernote, Wordpress, Facebook, CSS, Github and lots of other geeky stuff.

I love bringing people together, in person, and online.

In person, I started a cowork location in the historic old town in Winchester, VA. Now I work alongside some really smart, really interesting and really helpful people.

I started and organize Refresh Winchester, a monthly meet up for people interested in new media topics. Each month we have a speaker and a food sponsor. Food and learning!

Online, I run a content and community-focused site called No Treble, a fun project that combines three of my passions: bass, web and community.

And, Squidoo, of course!

Before that, I was in the graphic art field, all the way back to the pre-desktop days of traditional pre-press (aka paste-up). I was the third generation in my family to go into the field, so I had great teachers.

I led a catalog retailer to the web in 1995, and later became VP of the newly (and very web 1.0) named AnotherUniverse.com. We did millions in revenue with a unique contextual commerce platform. After I left, the company was acquired and later vanished. I'm still sad about that.

From 1998 to 2003, I ran a little web agency named Solutions Factory. We had a lot of fun, learned a lot, took our lumps and stayed alive after the web 1.0 bubble burst.

I still work/play right here at Squidoo, with one of the greatest groups of people I've ever been around.

(I'm referring to the software, not the hosted blog solution.)

I spend a lot of time working on sites powered by WordPress, and have been for about 7 years now. WordPress is remarkable software that keeps getting remarkably better with each new release. I love to say that WordPress makes me look like a smart developer. Between the simplicity of the code and the excellent documentation on the Codex (not to mention a handful of great plugins), it makes building a website really easy.

Jaco Pastorius...

In 2002, I designed and built the official web site for Jaco Pastorius, a site I managed until 2007. In 2003, I designed and produced the packaging for the Portrait of Jaco box set, one of CDBaby's 20 best selling CDs of all time.

Seth Godin...

In 2005, Seth Godin picked 2 developers, a designer and me to help him architect Squidoo. I joined Squidoo as COO later that summer, and we built it soon after that.

I also play sax. A little guitar and piano too.

Those are my favorite titles.

I started a coworking space in Winchester, VA in January 2009, with the help of some incredible people.

Check out Bright Cowork.