Comics-app developer Comixology hires HBO Go architect
HBO Go-ing, going, gone! Comixology, the publisher of the leading digital-comics app, announced Monday that it has hired Jeff DiBartolomeo as its new Chief Technical Officer (CTO). DiBartolomeo is making the move from HBO, where he was one of the three founders of that network’s lauded HBO Go app, to a company with a digital focus but a much different medium. DiBartolomeo’s been on the job for the last month, and he’ll lead a tech team of around 40 people, including iOS and Android developers, Web developers, and server and database managers.
I talked to DiBartolomeo last week about his history at HBO and the reason he came to Comixology. DiBartolomeo, along with HBO CIO Michael Gabriel and HBO director of applications Bruce Probst, came up with the original concept for HBO Go and DiBartolomeo ran the application-development team that built out the app, which arrived in 2011.
“What’s exciting about comics is, it’s very much the same thing,” DiBartolomeo told me. “Taking an exciting medium and adding all the flexibility and modernization of it, so someone who’s a comic-book aficionado doesn’t have to carry 250 comics in their briefcase.”
Of course, while HBO and Comixology both are app developers delivering content to users streamed from a large database of material, HBO trades in moving pictures while Comixology trades in pages and pages of still images.
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