Dale Dougherty is one of the co-founders (with Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly is the founder of O'Reilly Media and a supporter of the free software and open source movements.-Life and career:...

) of O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics...

. While not at the company in its earliest stages as a technical documentation consulting company, Dale was instrumental in the development of O'Reilly's publishing business, was the founder of GNN, the Global Network Navigator

Global Network Navigator

The Global Network Navigator was the first commercial web publicationand the first web site to offer clickable advertisements, now commonly referred to as "banner ads." The first such internet ad was sold by GNN to Heller Ehrman LLP....

, the first web portal and the first site on the internet to be supported by advertising, and most recently is the founder and publisher of O'Reilly's new Make

Make (magazine)

Make is an American quarterly magazine published by O'Reilly Media which focuses on do it yourself and/or DIWO projects involving computers, electronics, robotics, metalworking, woodworking and other disciplines...

magazine.

Contrary to popular perception, it was he who coined the term 'Web 2.0

Web 2.0

The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...

'.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

Dale Dougherty currently heads up O'Reilly's Maker Media division.

Dale Dougherty is the author of the O'Reilly book sed & awk. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sed2/

External links

• Profile at O'Reilly Network