Tom Coates

Tom Coates works for Yahoo! Brickhouse where he develops new concepts in social software, future media and the web of data. His latest project is Fire Eagle – a location brokerage system designed to make it possible for every network-enabled object in the world to respond to your location.

He’s worked for many of the UK’s most prominent web companies including Time Out, UpMyStreet and the BBC where he ran a small near-term R&D team exploring media navigation, annotation and distribution.

A regular speaker at conferences, Tom also writes extensively at plasticbag.org as well as running the experimental online community barbelith.com.