Dale Dougherty is VP, Online Publishing and Research for O'Reilly & Associates. Dougherty was the founding editor at O'Reilly when it began publishing computer books in 1985. Dougherty has been involved with the World Wide Web since its inception. In 1993, he developed the Global Network Navigator (GNN), which was the first commercial Web portal. GNN was sold to America Online in 1995. In 1995, he founded Web Review, an online magazine for Web developers, which was sold to Miller Freeman in 1999. He now manages O'Reilly's online publishing efforts, which include the O'Reilly Network and its affiliated sites, XML.com, Perl.com and OpenP2P.com.

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