Steve Olechowski

Steve is cofounder and COO of FeedBurner, the market-leading feed management provider. He is a recognized expert in mobile communications and wireless technologies, and has helped many companies implement their strategies in the wireless world.
Steve most recently held Vice President positions in charge of Development, Product Management, and Product Marketing at 724 Solutions Inc. There he was responsible for setting direction for the next generation of device independent, multimodal, and active wireless applications, and working with mobile operators to define their VASP (value added service platform) architectures. Steve's career spans a number of corporate, consulting and startup experiences including lead technical management roles at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), Digital Knowledge Assets, and Burning Door LLC. He also cofounded Spyonit.com, the alerting and messaging platform acquired in 2000 by 724 Solutions.
Steve holds a degree in Computer Studies and Economics from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. His insights about the international growth of feeds have been published in a variety of publications including Wired, Les Blogs, Emerce and CNET Japan.
Places Steve has spoken or will be speaking
- Les Blogs 2.0 December 5, 2005, Paris, FranceSession : RSS Panel
- Emerce Traffic Metrics December 15, 2005, Amsterdam, NetherlandsKeynote Speaker
- The Future of Web Apps February 8, 2006, London, EnglandDownload the .mp3
- Feedsphere March 10, 2006, Tokyo, Japan
- Next Generation Web Conference March 13, 2006, Seoul, Korea
- Search Engine Strategies - Milan April 26, 2006, Milan, ItalyThis session explores how search engines are dealing with blog and feed (RSS/Atom) content and why providing such syndicated content can drive new search-related traffic.
- Blogs & Social Media Forum May 17, 2006, London, EnglandJoin Steve Olechowski at 14.20-14.50 for a panel session titled, Understanding Social Media's ROI. Schedule time to meet with Steve.
- The Future of Web Apps (San Francisco) September 13, 2006, San Francisco, CAFeedBurner cofounder and coo Steve Olechowski along with the biggest names in web development including Digg, Wikipedia, Wordpress, Odeo, Yahoo!, Flickr and more. Listen to his presentation.
- 1ª Feeds & Beers mundial en Barcelona October 25, 2006, Barcelona, SpainWatch the video interview with FeedBurner cofounder Steve Olechowski and Mark Fletcher of Bloglines.
- Corporate Podcasting Summit Europe March 20, 2007, London, UKJoin Steve for a session titled, "Return on Investment or Return on Influence? New metrics for measuring the success of your podcasting campaigns"
- Changing Media Summit March 22, 2007, LondonJoin cofounder/COO Steve, along with Ben Hammersley, Tariq Krim of Netvibes and Mike Moore of AOL Europe in a session titled, "Democratising content in the user-in-control era"
Interviews Steve Has Done
- Chicago Tribune: Illinois ranks 7th in high-tech job count April 24, 2007
- Corante: Guardian Changing Media: Democratising content in the user-in-control era March 22, 2007
- ClearBlogging: FeedBurner and you – an interview with Steve Olechowski February 20, 2007
- RSSMarketing.fr: Le JDN Interview: Steve Olechowski, le boss de FeedBurner December 12, 2006
- Vitamin: Vitamin Interviews Steve Olechowski November 30, 2006
- Le Journal du Net: Les Gourous de Web 2.0: FeedBurner October 17, 2006
- Web担当者 現場のノウハウVol.2: GMOアドネットワークス+FeedBurner, Inc. September 27, 2006
- Wired Blogs: Steve's 10 Things You Didn't Know About RSS September 13, 2006
- TechWeb: DFW Airport Launches Podcast Service July 24, 2006
- MediaPost: FeedBurner Buys Blogbeat July 18, 2006
- The Blog Herald: An Interview with Feedburner's Steve Olechowski and Jeff Turner July 17, 2006
- internetnews.com: Feedburner Acquires Blogbeat July 17, 2006
- Australian IT: FeedBurner buys BlogBeat July 17, 2006
- TechWeb: FeedBurner Buys Blogbeat July 17, 2006
- WebProNews: FeedBurner Acquires Blogbeat July 17, 2006
- Crain's Chicago Business: FeedBurner buys BlogBeat in first acquisition July 17, 2006
- InformationWeek: Mining For Data In Blogs July 17, 2006
- Adotas: FeedBurner Buys BlogBeat July 17, 2006
- Reuters: FeedBurner buys BlogBeat, expanding blog analysis July 17, 2006
- Crain's Chicago Business: A digital dilemma June 26, 2006
- motoricerca: Intervista esclusiva a Steve Olechowski di Feedburner (.mp3 interview available in English) May 5, 2006
- ElectricNews.net: Podcast: Steve Olechowski, FeedBurner April 12, 2006
- Blog that Web: FeedBurner: "It's taken the internet industry 10 years to figure out the right way to use XML" March 30, 2006
- ZDNet.fr: Steve Olechowski, FeedBurner: Le web 2.0, c'est l'aboutissement de 10 ans de réflexion sur XML February 20, 2006
- Bloxpert.com: Interview with Steve Olechowski from FeedBurner November 24, 2005
- CNET Japan: FeedBurnerを相棒にGMOが展開するフィードビジネスの筋書き October 7, 2005
- Chicago Sun Times: Helping Publishers, Bloggers Get the Word Out September 6, 2005
- Webmasterradio.fm : RSS Advertising Explored: Interview with Steve Olechowski December 1, 2004
- Wired: Advertisers Muscle Into RSS November 18, 2004