8BitKid: Living Bit by Bit

I tend to try to not mix business with blogging, but I wanted to give a quick post about my new gig. Friday, was my last day at Yahoo!, but being someone who doesn’t like to slow down, I am already hard at work on my new project: MySpace’s Data Availability platform.

I am passionate about openness on the web and its potential to catalyze more meaningful user experiences. It was this passion that brought me to Yahoo! to be a product manager on the Games team, where I was tasked with working to build out our community tools. In November I switched over to the Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) team to help Yahoo! create an application platform to open our properties to 3rd party developers. It was an amazing year, and I was fortunate to work with many dedicated and intelligent individuals who were passionate about helping Yahoo! embrace an open strategy. Today I took my next step in my work on creating platforms to help social interactions on the web, but it required a change in scenery.

As of this morning I am an employee of MySpace, working as the Product Manager for the Data Availability project. I strongly believe in the value of having an evolved sense of online identity, one that empowers users by giving them control over their digital self. I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to work with the community to create a more open and social web. So keep a look out for what is coming down the pipes from the project, and find me on MySpace at: http://www.myspace.com/pixelelated.