Editing Benjamin Trott (section)

{{short description|American blogger}}
{{other people||Ben Trott (disambiguation)}}
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| caption     = Benjamin Trott in 2005
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| known_for   = Co-founder of [[Six Apart]], creator of [[Movable Type]] and [[TypePad]]
| occupation  = Blogger
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'''Benjamin Trott''' (born September 22, 1977) is a co-founder (with ex-wife [[Mena Trott]]) of [[Six Apart]], creator of [[Movable Type]] and [[TypePad]]. In November 2010, he became Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of SAY Media, a new online advertising and software company formed by a merger of ad network VideoEgg with Six Apart.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://blog.saymedia.com/2010/11/say-media-videoeggsix-apart-deal-is-closed.html| title=SAY Media: VideoEgg/Six Apart Deal is Closed| publisher=SAY Media| date=November 2010| accessdate=2010-12-01| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128094335/http://blog.saymedia.com/2010/11/say-media-videoeggsix-apart-deal-is-closed.html| archivedate=2010-11-28}}</ref>

Before joining SAY Media, Trott was also CTO of Six Apart. He is a regular contributor to [[CPAN]] (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network), and has written for [[Perl]].com and contributed to ''Essential Blogging''. In 2004, he was named to the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] [[Technology Review]] [[TR35|TR100]] as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/?year=2004 |title=2004 Young Innovators Under 35 |publisher=[[Technology Review]] | year=2004 | accessdate=August 15, 2011}}</ref>