by Kara Andrade, Maynard Institute

The first time I met Eduardo Hauser, founder of DailyMe, a new news site that allows you to personalize your RSS feeds, their timing and delivery method, we geeked out about Spock and didn't think twice about it. Geek met geek, and that's how I got to know of his curiosity about this constantly evolving landscape of online tools.

Hauser, a Venezuela native, has been a senior business manager for more than a decade. He began organizing DailyMe in 2005/2006 and launched the Beta version in October 2007. Though he can't write code, he said he knew how to find people who can. His small shop has 16 employees in two offices: Caracas, Venezuela, and Hollywood, Fla., the headquarters.

From Spock, I learned about Hauser's background in law, business and television. He has law degrees from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas and Duke University in Durham, N.C. He served as AOL's executive vice president for Latin America, and in various positions with the Cisneros Group, one of the largest privately-held media, entertainment, telecommunications and consumer products conglomerates in the world, according to their Web site. He started his varied career in Venezuela in law. His work in media led him into service on the boards of directors of National Public Radio and the Knight Foundation in the United States.

"I'm sorry you had to read all that," Hauser told me with a humble laugh.

My interest in Hauser was piqued even further as I read about Neil Budde, who in early April joined DailyMe as president and chief product officer. Budde had been the chief of Yahoo! News since 2004. Before that, he was the founding editor and publisher of The Wall Street Journal Online. With that pedigree, why, I wondered, would Budde make the big jump to little DailyMe? More important, who was the wizard behind this new service?

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