Google snapped up Keyhole in 2004 and turned it into Google Earth, one of the great Web engineering achievements of our time.

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The basic technology underneath Skype is available to anyone putting in a minimal amount of engineering effort, and so the Web is now seeing second- and third-generation video conferencing products, like the Facetime built into the new Apple iPhone.

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He has also worked on Internet protocols and is a co-author of the Internet Engineering Task Force's MHTML standard for sending Web pages as e-mail.

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This is the insight that allowed Steven Newcomb (founder and CEO) and Mark Lu (co-founder and head of engineering) of Famo.us to crack the performance puzzle of web-based apps.

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And Philip Su, the engineering site director of Facebook in London, said he was delighted the web titans were working together on the project.

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While working as a vice president of technology at Elder Research, an engineering consultancy, Buckner began methodically studying the meteoric rise and fantastic fall of Web 1.0 online grocers.

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She has the engineering chops, as well as the insights that helped develop some of the most ubiquitous web destinations, from Google search and images to Gmail.

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