Mr. Van Someren is Director of Research and Development for Pixelsmiths. He has been in the computer technology field for over 23 years. He recently served as head of Research and Development and as a senior web developer on rich media web sites at the Idealab-backed entertainment venture Z.com. He is also listed as primary inventor on multiple United States technology patents. Internet related patents include multiple real-time content streaming channels, and time based synchronization of multi-camera systems.
He has managed development and engineering of celebrity talent entertainment
web sites for Oliver Stone, Ellen DeGeneres, and Alanis Morrisette's
"One" tour 2000. All of these projects applied revolutionary
live and archived streaming technologies, giving audiences unique and
intimate access to a reality-based celebrity story.
