Breandán Knowlton

London, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Executive Director at Historypin

I'm the Executive Director of Historypin, a community archiving product that helps people to collect and tell the stories of the places that matter to them. Historypin is a project of Shift, the social product agency that brings together ideas from design, business and technology to make products and platforms that nudge people toward social and environmental goals. BACKGROUND I studied classical music composition in college. And while writing string quartets didn't lead to a job, I did find that I could think about a piece of software the same way I used to approach a piece of music. Rhythm and structure and layers of abstraction -- it's all the same thing, really. I spent quite a whi...