Bill
Rosenblatt is
a recognized authority on digital media technologies,
including digital rights management,
content management,
cross-media strategy, and
content production systems, as well as on issues related to
intellectual property in the online world. He is the author
of Digital
Rights Management: Business and Technology (John
Wiley & Sons) and managing editor of the Jupitermedia
newsletter DRM
Watch.
Bill founded GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies in
June 2000. Prior to that, he was Chief Technology Officer
of Fathom,
a knowledge destination web site for lifelong learners
backed by Columbia University, the London School
of Economics, Cambridge University Press, the New
York Public Library, and other scholarly institutions.
Bill defined Fathom’s content and e-commerce
technology architecture and built its technology
infrastructure.
Bill’s
publishing industry experience includes stints at McGraw-Hill
and Times Mirror Co. Before joining Fathom, he served
as VP of Technology and New Media for McGraw-Hill's
trade magazine division, where he was responsible
for implementing the business’ vertical market
web portal strategy, including AviationNow.com,
an information portal for the aviation industry. At
Times Mirror, as Director of Publishing Systems, Bill
implemented content management systems for many of Times
Mirror's newspaper, book, and professional information
publishing businesses, and performed technical due
diligence on acquisition candidate companies.
At Sun
Microsystems, Bill served as a technology strategy
consultant to Sun’s major media and publishing
customers and did business development work for Sun's
video server product line. Then, as Market Development
Manager for Media, Entertainment, and Publishing,
he defined Sun’s market strategy for the industry
and built alliances with software vendors who serve
it. His career in digital media began at Moody's Investors Service,
the bond rating agency, where he developed a pre-web-era
architecture for electronic publishing of Moody’s
credit reports.
In
addition to Digital
Rights Management: Business and Technology,
Bill is an author of three technical
books for
the publisher O'Reilly & Associates, which have
been translated into French and Japanese; he
was a contributor to the book Electronic Publishing
Strategies, published by Pira International Ltd.
in the UK; and he has authored many
articles and contributed to
technology standards initiatives in his areas of
expertise.
Bill has been an invited speaker at many conferences,
including the World Economic Forum in Davos, NAB, the
Congressional Internet Caucus State of the Net
conference, the ACM Computers, Freedom, and Privacy
conference, the Progress and Freedom Foundation
Aspen Summit, and Globes Business Conference (Israel); and he has chaired conferences on
digital rights topics for Jupiter Events, Lighthouse Seminars,
and Seybold. He has been quoted in The New
York Times, US News & World Report, Der
Spiegel, Financial Times Deutschland, The Globe and Mail, Australian Financial
Review, Globes (Israel), Electronic Times (South Korea), Billboard,
PC World, Editor & Publisher, Information Today, and
on NPR's radio program All Things Considered.
He
holds a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science from Princeton University and
an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of
Massachusetts, and he has had executive education
at Harvard and University of Southern California
business schools.
Bill
is a member of the Gerson Lehrman Group Media
Council.
Affiliated
consultants:
|
