MyST was founded in 2002 by software industry veterans Bill French and F. Andy Seidl. The company introduced the MyST Web Services Platform™ and the MySmartChannels Weblog Application Server™ in 2003. Building on that technology stack, MyST introduced MyST Blogsite and MyST Enterprise RSS Services in 2004,MySmartChannels ORS™ (Office Research Services) andMySmartChannels Smart Tags™ (Microsoft® Office compatible smart tag subscription services) in 2005, and MyST Topic Cloud™ in 2006. MyST is continuing to develop innovative products and services that leverage XML standards-based services of the underlying MyST Platform.