John Temple co-founded Amuse Labs with Sudheendra Hangal, a Ph.D. graduate from Stanford’s Computer Science Department and Jaya Hangal, a member of the team that developed Java at Sun Microsystems. John is a veteran journalist who has been managing editor of the Washington Post and president/audience and products at First Look Media. He was editor, president and publisher of the Rocky Mountain News before it closed in 2009 and was the founding editor of Honolulu Civil Beat.