Mark Hurst was born on December 13,1972 and is a journalist, author, broadcaster, game designer, and Internet entrepreneur.
10 Facts About Mark Hurst
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Mark Hurst founded the GEL tech conference, and hosts a weekly technology-focused radio program, Techtonic, on WFMU.
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In 2006, Hurst presented a European version of Gel, euroGel 2006, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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In 2009 Mark Hurst established a spinoff conference, Gel Health 2009, devoted to issues of health care, in New York.
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From 1991 to 1995 while a student at MIT, Mark Hurst drew Firehose Tavern, a comic strip published in the MIT student newspaper, The Tech.
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Mark Hurst founded Creative Good, a tech consulting firm, in 1997.
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In 2003, one year before the launch of Yelp, Mark Hurst launched a restaurant-review site called AddYourOwn.
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Also in 2003, Mark Hurst launched This Is Broken, a blog collecting examples of flawed designs in products and services.
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Mark Hurst is the author of Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload.
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Mark Hurst grew up around the world as the son of a US Navy officer.