Ryan began working with the web in 1999, and though he took a hiatus to work on non-web technologies for awhile, the lure of the Web was too strong. He's now studying Internet Engineering at the University of San Francisco and working with Technorati, where he develops microformats [http://microformats.org/] by helping others implement microformats and shepherding the community around microformats.org. He's interested in distributed applications built on the web, which are accesible by as many people as possible. In his spare time, he does tech-support for his extended family and wonders why he let them buy Windows computers.

• Web site