Simon de la Rouviere

Cape Town Area, South Africa South Africa

Engineer of Societies at ConsenSys

Technology / Software / Internet

Graduate with Master of Arts in Socio-Informatics (cum laude), researching information overload on microblogging services. Currently pioneering the development of new societies based on blockchain technology. I have a keen interest in how the web shapes our daily lives. This passion has sparked an interest in programming and researching sociology/psychology around the web. Creator of Tweekly.fm (last.fm social media mashup: 450k updates a month) and creator of TwimeMachine (easy way to read old tweets: used by people such as Paulho Coelho, Cesc Fabregas, ESPN, CNBC, Sega, NBA, Adidas and Buddy Media). Tweekly.fm and TwimeMachine has been used by more than 1 million people.