<BEN BROWN>
This is the homepage of Ben Brown. I am a writer, designer, programmer, publisher and entrepreneur. I have dedicated most of my entire life to making stuff on the Internet - since 1996!
I live in Austin, Texas with my wife and partner Katie Spence and our two children.
I currently work at Microsoft, where I am working in a group with the cool codename. I am a software architect, and I work on a variety of products involving web technologies, conversational software, and LLMs.
Some of my current projects:
- Buy LIBRARY: The Book, a physical and electronic editions
- I self-published a very handsome print edition of my novelette, along with a limited edition vintage floppy disk.
- LIBRARY, a short story (new for 2024)
- A cyberpunk story about hackers and megacorps that takes place in a food truck lot.
- Ben on Hackers.town
- Follow me in the Fediverse!
- Tim and Ben's Podcast
- I'm making a podcast with my best friend since third grade!
- Happy Net Box
- An experimental internet social experience based on the arcane and near-forgotten retro internet protocol known as FINGER.
- The Ben Brown Collection
- An Instagram account documenting my comics, books, action figures and memorabilia.
- Ben Brown Archive.org Collections
- I am uploading and organizing lots of old videos and stuff from my > 20 years of posting stuff to the Internet.
- My irregular newsletter
- A good way to keep up with what's happening in the Ben-o-sphere.
- A searchable archive of my tweets
- 15+ years of small thoughts.
I'm available in the normal places too - Instagram and LinkedIn.
Some of my greatest hits:
- Howdy.ai and Botkit - a bot building framework, 💸 sold to Microsoft in 2018.
- Table Flipper - for all your table flipping needs
- Make Pixel Art - the internet's favorite free pixel art editor
- Über.nu - a daily humor webzine that ran from 2000-20005
- Consumating.com - an alt-social network that ran from 2004-2008, 💸 sold to CNET Networks in 2006.
- Deepleap.com - your intelligent browser assistant. 1999-2000.
Patents:
- System and Method for Managing Distribution of Rich Media Content (Disney)
- System and Method for Managing Group Communications (Disney)
- System and Method for Providing a Rich Media Visitor Log (Disney)
- System and method for providing concierge services to a mobile device user (Disney)
- Visual design of a conversational bot (Microsoft)
- Configuring a chatbot with remote language processing (Microsoft)
- Visual trigger configuration of a conversational bot (Microsoft)
Email me at benbrown@gmail.com.
I made this website in vi in 2021 and updated in 2024. The last version of this page was made in 2013.