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Previous Work
Fen Labalme, chief architect and founder of Broadcatch Technologies, created the first personalized newspaper in 1981 while at M.I.T. He called this `peek at the news' NewsPeek, as he was acutely aware that giving any centralized server access to one's complete personal profile was a privacy violation reminiscent of Big Brother in George Orwell's book 1984.
Since that day, while Fen has been waiting for technology to catch up to his vision, he has worked on a number of related projects:
- 1981 - NewsPeek
- 1983 - The Guerilla Information Network™ (GIN)
- 1989 - SmarTV™
- 1992 - General Magic's Information Provider Architecture
- 1994 - The Cooperative, Distributed Meta-Librarian™ (CDML)
- 1994 - Social Advertising™
- 1996 - The Venue Operating System (VOS)
- 1999 - The SuperProfile , BookmarkCity, & Infomediary White Paper
- 2001 - The OpenPrivacy Initiative
