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 		 Nathaniel S. Borenstein <nsb> Stan Borenstein, 1925-2006

Who I Am

I'm a scientist/programmer/inventor/entrepreneur who has been involved in Internet-related innovations since 1980, specializing in e-mail technology, human-computer interaction, and electronic commerce. Journalists have called me an "Internet Guru" and "a geek's geek, " among other things. I have largely focused, in my career, on taking new innovations and driving them, collaboratively, to become successful products. I specialize in building consensus in diverse groups, and I enjoy translating between different perspectives, particularly between software development and business strategy. Since 2002 I have worked for IBM Lotus Division (), doing standards work and other cool stuff.

You Might Know Me From...

  • My standards work. Among other things, I'm co-creator of MIME, the Internet standard multimedia data format. My old barbershop quartet is featured in the first-ever MIME message.

  • My entrepreneurial ventures. I co-founded First Virtual Holdings in 1994, which became MessageMedia and was ultimately swallowed up by Doubleclick when the Internet bubble burst, and NetPOS.com in 2000.

  • My software projects (notably metamail, Safe-Tcl, and the