Aldus

25 years ago Apple and a hand­ful of part­ners ignited the dig­i­tal pub­lish­ing rev­o­lu­tion. I was there, a senior mem­ber of Apple’s pio­neer­ing team, along with vision­ar­ies and change agents from Adobe, Aldus, Quark and oth­ers. Our work laid the foun­da­tions for dig­i­tal con­tent and pub­lish­ing, key mile­stones on the road to the Web, social media, blog­ging, and other 21st cen­tury communications.

Revised on June 16, 2010

Way back in the dig­i­tal Dark Ages of the early 1990s, some of my col­leagues left Aldus, a dig­i­tal pub­lish­ing pio­neer, to found a com­pany called MetaBridge. Their goal was to develop a “cross-media” pub­lish­ing plat­form that would enable con­tent own­ers and pub­lish­ers to read­ily adapt con­tent for opti­mal dis­play across mul­ti­ple res­o­lu­tions and aspect […]

Revised on December 18, 2009