Background
Prodromou was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, but grew up in California.
Prodromou was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, but grew up in California.
Prodromou graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 1990 (Physics, English), and worked for Microsoft and various Web development companies in the late 1990s.
His major contributions have been Wikitravel (with Michele Ann Jenkins), Identi.ca and StatusNet. His current project is Pump.io, a type of social media software. He has lived in Amsterdam, San Francisco, and Lisbon, and currently lives in Montreal.
In 2003 he started Wikitravel, and in 2007 founded Control Yourself which developed the software for Identi.ca, a microblogging service.
Control Yourself was renamed to Laconica, and then to StatusNet in 2010. In December 2012 Prodromou started a new company, E14N.com to develop a new social media platform, Pump.io.
Prodromou is an advocate of Free and Open Source Software and Open Culture. He has presented at software conferences, and is the chair of the World Wide Web consortium"s Federated Social Web Community Group
They have two children.
He has been writing a novel, still unfinished, since 2001.
Evan Prodromou is working on or has worked on these projects:
fuzzy.io
Breather (company)
Pump.io
E14N.com (formerly Control Yourself, Laconica, and StatusNet)
Identi.ca
Wikitravel
Vinismo
kei.ki
certifi.ca.