Career
He is notable as the creator of multiple web-based information management tools and a pioneer in this technology. He is a former journalist and self-taught programmer. This is a Web-based subscription service that enables users to browse multiple web pages by combining them vertically into a single web page.
This concept was an outgrowth of a tool which Fest had conceived as an aid to his journalistic research. received wide media coverage during the height of the Dot-com bubble.
Octopus received more than $11.4 million in venture capital funding from Redpoint Ventures. Onepage received $25 million in venture capital funding. received a half-million dollars in angel funding.
Fest has created additional Web-based services, such as Onlinehomebase.com (information management), Magicminder.com (contact management), Trackle.com (Web page content monitoring), SimplyAnnual.com (yearly email reminders), and myHerald.com, an experimental online edition of the Miami Herald based on metabrowsing (discontinued). He is also the creator of Aftersunrise.com, a video blog of South Beach sunrises and of Messagehouse.org, a site about messaging tactics.
