Elaine Wherry
Co-Founder, VP of Products, Meebo

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Elaine Wherry is co-founder and VP of product at Meebo. She majored in Symbolic Systems at Stanford and then joined Synaptics and led their Usability team for several years. In 2005, she started Meebo with two friends from Stanford, Seth Sternberg and Sandy Jen. Elaine plays the violin and migrated west to California after growing up on a goat farm.

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5:20pm Thursday, 07/23/2009
What Web App Design Can Learn From the Harpsichord
Web Applications
 Location: Meeting Room B1/B4
Elaine Wherry (Meebo)
Baroque harpsichordists excelled at taking simple melodies and creating elaborate, beautiful pieces of music. But in their desire to push the boundaries of experimentation, these keyboard virtuosi eventually ornamented the music beyond the limits of good taste, making the composer’s original melody unrecognizable. Something similar happens in web design. Read more.
  • Intel
  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • SourceForge.net
  • Sun Microsystems
  • Facebook
  • Gear6
  • Kaltura
  • Liferay
  • MindTouch
  • MySpace.com
  • Novell, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
  • Rackspace Cloud
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • Symbian Foundation
  • Twilio
  • WSO2
  • Yabarana Corporation

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