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Occupation
  
Programmer

Name
  
Bruce Ableson


Role
  
Computer programmer

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Born
  
September 16, 1963 (age 60) (
1963-09-16
)
New York, United States

Education
  
Michigan State University

Bruce Ableson (born September 16, 1963 in New York) is an American computer programmer and website developer. He is best known as the inventor of Open Diary, the first online blogging community.

Ableson was raised in West Bloomfield, Michigan, and graduated from Birmingham Groves High School. During high school, he worked as editor of the Groves Scriptor, became an Eagle Scout, and appeared in several short Super 8 films produced by schoolmate Ted Raimi.

After graduating from Michigan State University with a degree in Telecommunications, Ableson worked for several years as a systems consultant and programmer. During this time, Ableson developed Open Diary, which launched on October 20, 1998. Ableson built the first system for blog comments, and innovated the use of friend's list privacy settings and activity feeds on the site. He shut down the Open Diary website with two weeks notice to diarists on February 7, 2014.

These features have led some to credit Ableson's site and inventions to be the beginnings of social media.

References

Bruce Ableson Wikipedia