Randy Charles Morin

Randy Charles Morin is a Canadian web publisher and the former chairman of the RSS Advisory Board,^[1] a group that publishes the RSS 2.0 specification. Randy authored the RSS autodiscovery specification and contributed to the RSS profile. He also runs the TalkSports website.^[2]

In 2005, Morin began Rmail, a startup that enabled RSS feeds to be read over email. The site grew to more than 50,000 subscribers, and in April 2007 was sold to the broadcast network NBC.^[3] NBC digital media executive George Kliavkoff said the acquisition would enable the company to "make predictive understandings of what they might be interested in and start learning about RSS." NBC rebranded the service as SendMeRSS.

Morin began TalkSports after a 2005 blog post he wrote about hockey player Sidney Crosby received a comment from a female inquiring whether Crosby had a girlfriend. He explained to Drama Scene Live Radio in an interview, "Google immediately picked up that new comment and within a few days that page was getting 1,000 hits per day. And I thought, I've got an idea ..."^[4]

Bibliography

He authored and co-authored several technical books.

Programming Windows Services (2000) ISBN 0-471-38576-X
Waite Group's COM/DCOM Primer Plus
COM/DCOM Unleashed (1999) ISBN 0-672-31352-9
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Programming Unleashed (1999) ISBN 0-672-31293-X
COM/DCOM (Korean)
COM/DCOM (Japanese)
COM+ Unleashed

In the news

On January 30, 2006, Joined the RSS Advisory Board.^[5]
On August 12, 2008, becomes chairman of the RSS Advisory Board.^[6]

References

^ "Randy becomes Chairman of RSS".
^ "Athletes' dating lives are big business". ESPN. October 14, 2014. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
^ "NBC Universal looks to feed off Rmail". Reuters. 2007-05-01. Retrieved 2008-11-11.
^ "Let's talk sports ... it's not what you know but what you can prove". Drama Scene Live Radio. August 11, 2010. Retrieved May 11, 2014.
^ "Randy Joins the RSS Advisory Board".
^ "Randy Charles Morin Becomes RSS Advisory Board Chairman".