Since we have a feeling that Podcasting may be the next big thing in general and in particular it may be used also in Windows Mobile devices like Microsoft Smartphone and Pocket PC phone, we hereby present biography of Adam Curry, who is considered as a father of Podcasting although it was Dave Winer who not only invented RSS, but also created RSS feed formati with enclosure elements that contain link to multimedia files like MP3. Adam Curry was however the first who had written a program, that used this RSS with enclosures format, and who later on was propagating Podcasting with his own podcasts, websites and other means. While most other people in technology area are hardly a celebrities, Adam Curry was always living a life of a celebrity and was meeting other celebrities. Therefore we at msmobiles.com, as a tabloid, are almost obliged to cover him as if he would be celebrity - after all he is a millionaire and indeed is a kind of celebrity.
Here is Adam Curry biography :
September 3, 1964 : born in USA. His father is Jay Curry.
1972-1987 : lived in Netherlands, EU. Grew up in the area of Amsterdam. While living in Netherlands he picked Dutch and this, apart from English, is one of languages, that he knows and speaks fluently. His idol at that time was Steve Wozniak - a Polish-American who is co-founder of Apple corporation. His hobby was amateur radio and computer communication with modems. In meantime (just 3 years) he was studying communications in college in West Virginia in USA but came back to Netherlands right away.
1983 : he became a VJ (veejay) at national television in Netherlands - his job was there to present video clips with music and carry out ("curry out"?) interviews with people from show business. Shortly speaking: he was hosting TV show "CountDown".
1987 : MTV noticed him on Dutch TV, hired him and asked him to go to USA to work for MTV USA. He started there with Haloween show.
1987-1991 : he was hosting show MTV US Top 20 Countdown. In meantime he was strongly interested with all things "online" and with Internet - he was fiddling with "Gopher", e-mail, etc...
around 1990 : he registered (bought) for himself Internet domain "mtv.com" and MTV sued him and required him to give this domain back to MTV. He has agreed to solve this problem with MTV under condition that he will not be allowed to talk about it, and under condition that he will give this Internet domain back to MTV - what he did and in return he has received money from MTV for this domain.
around 1990 : married Patricia Pay (born in 1949) - a Dutch singer - one of the most popular singers in Netherlands. He met Patricia Pay before 1990 during the time, when he was giving a voice in p-rn movie (he was giving voice only, not playing in it) and she was recording something in the same building. She have overheard his mellifluous voice and wanted to know who he is and they met in this way.
1988-1990 : he was starring in TV Series Headbangers Ball
1990 : Christina Curry - his daughter was born born in USA
1991 : he starred himself in a film Madonna: Truth or Dare
1993 : he starred himself in a film Circus of the Stars Gives Kids the World
1993 : he starred himself in a Dutch TV series "Adamīs Family" - a kind of reality show, for which he got 1 million USD.
1994 : he established, together with "2 Jewish guys" (his words) On Ramp, Inc. company that offered website creation service for companies - or generally speaking Internet presence formation for other companies. Later on he renamed this company into Think New Ideas, Inc and got some major customers like Budweiser, Avon, Gillette, Reebok, IBM, Oracle, Procter & Gamble and Major League Baseball Players Association. His company went public and was valued 200 million USD lately.
1996 : he sold his shares in Think New Ideas, Inc company, cashed out and left
2000 : he starred "Emil Ingerbretson" in the movie "The Weight of Water"
around 2000: he moved from USA to Netherlands with intention to move to UK. In Netherlands he was trying himself in business: started helicopter company, was active in some Internet enterprises.
2004 : Adam Curry wrote "iPodder" - first program that used RSS with enclosures to fetch automatically MP3 files - and started publishing his own Podcast "Daily Source Code" and started propagating Podcasting in interviews for major media like BBC, Wired, etc.
November 2004 : moved to Guilford city in Surrey county in UK - a country in EU. Reasons of move: to offer her daughter British education, that he considers superior to American and Dutch ones.
January 2005 : established, together with Dave Winer (inventor of RSS format) a company, that should capitalize on Podcasting hype.
