Adam Curry
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Adam Curry (born September 3, 1964) was born in the United States and is best known for his stint from 1987 to 1994 as a VJ on the premier music video channel MTV. Since the mid-1990s, he has been active on the Internet, particularly the World Wide Web, since becoming one of the first celebrities to personally create and administer a Web site.
Curry was born in Washington, DC, but lived in Amsterdam from 1972 to 1987. There he got his first break in broadcasting as the host of the daily pop-music television program CountDown. He also hosted several other radio and television programs for the Netherlands broadcast station Veronica.
In 1987, Curry became a VJ for MTV. Besides making spot appearances between music videos, he was also host of the program Top 20 Countdown. While working for MTV, he also did radio work, including: drive-time host for the New York City radio station WHTZ, and host of the national program HitLine USA.
In the early 1990s, as the World Wide Web was just beginning to gain mainstream attention, Curry began experimenting on the Net. He registered the then-unclaimed domain name "mtv.com" with the idea of being MTV's unofficial new voice on the Web. Although sanctioned by MTV Networks, when Adam left to start his company OnRamp, MTV sued him for the domain name, which led to an out-of-court settlement.
Curry left MTV in 1994 and founded OnRamp, Inc., a Web design and hosting company. He eventually grew the company to 40 employees and sold it to THINK New Ideas, Inc., another company that he co-founded. He became Chief Technology Officer of THINK. In 1996, as the Internet was undergoing its legendary "bubble," the company made an initial public offering on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol THNK. It subsequently grew to employ over 400 people and have offices in seven countries, and was absorbed into Answerthink, Inc. in a later merger.
In November 2004, Curry moved from the "bunker" in the Netherlands to the "Curry Cottage" in Guildford, England via the "Curry Castle" in Belgium.
Adam is a key player in the development and promotion of Podcasting, and he produces and presents "The Daily Source Code" (http://dailysourcecode.com), a daily Podcast (i.e. an audio blog post in MP3). He was also a key figure at BloggerCon 2004, held at Stanford Law School.
As of June 2005, Adam Curry hosts a show on Sirius Satellite Radio, entitled "Adam Curry's PodShow," running from 6-10 p.m. EST on weekdays.
He is married to Patricia Paay (b. 1949) and has one daughter, Christina Curry (b. 1990).
References
- Curry, Adam. "Personal Information about Adam Curry" (24 Feb. 2002). Adam Curry's Weblog. http://adamcurry.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$27 (accessed 8 May 2004).
External links
- iPodder.org - heavily contributed by Adam Curry (http://www.ipodder.org/)
- Adam Curry's Weblog (http://www.curry.com/)
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- Employment Agreement between THINK New Ideas Inc. and Adam Curry (http://contracts.onecle.com/think-new-ideas/curry.emp.1996.06.30.shtml)de:Adam Curry