Photo by my totally awesome wife, Katie Spence, Your New Favorite.
Hello! I'm Ben Brown.
Check out my blog, I Love Ben Brown,
or check out the cool stuff I'm working on at XOXCO,
or follow @benbrown on Twitter.
I have been building things on the Internet since 1996. Before then, I ran a dial-up BBS! I like to make things that encourage people to play together and connect in new ways.
Currently, I run a company called XOXCO (pronounced ex-oh-ex-koh.) We make internet products, most of which have a community aspect to them. I also give presentations about how to design for and build communites online - check out recent presentations here.
My wife, Katie Spence, runs an amazing photo blog. Buy a print!
I made Consumating, a social network for geeks, and Über, a humor zine that published funny essays every day for almost 5 years. For a while, I published books, and wrote for a Saturday morning cartoon show in New Zealand. Whoa!
Someone wrote a whole Wikipedia entry about me.
The best way to get ahold of me for business or pleasure - I am capable of both - is to send an email to ben@xoxco.com.
I have a beard.
This web site was launched on Friday, October 31, 1997. Beat that!