Alex Barnett Leaves Microsoft
Alex Barnett annonced on his blog yesterday that this Friday he is leaving Microsoft, going off to begin a new job as Vice President of Community at Bungee Labs. I met Alex at Search Champs last year, and have read his blog forever, and I’m really sad to see Microsoft lose such a great guy. Alex is a great resource for a company to have, and I hope Bungee uses him to a fuller extent than Microsoft did (which could be why they’re losing him).
Good luck Alex, and have fun in Salt Lake!
Microsoft seems to be losing a bunch of people that made up the great “New Microsoft”, and it would kill me to see the company backslide. They need more good people to sign up, and not lose the Niall Kennedys and Gartenbergs that might help them out. Microsoft is at the cusp of something spectacular (or an awful and dissapointing backslide), and anyone who agrees with that should be thinking about applying. Maybe I should start openly campaigning for a job…
What is Bungee Labs? From their website:
Bungee Labs is developing a 100% on-demand service environment for efficiently developing and instantly deploying next generation web applications. Bungee Labs will provide an extensible, end-to-end environment delivered over the web: no install for developers, no installation of delivery infrastructure, and no client install for end users.
Bungee Labs’ immediate discovery, access, integration, and presentation of public and private web services empowers developers to create full featured applications with rich AJAX interactivity, without the programming complexity that AJAX requires today. Bungee Labs web service integration takes applications beyond the desktop, and automates cross-browser development for Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.
Bungee Labs enables the full life-cycle of web applications through a ubiquitously available on-demand development and delivery service environment, supplemented by an active developer community intent on expanding the realm of the possible.
You really, seriously would want to work there, Nathan? Or just joking?
Comment by TDavid | March 28, 2007
I gotta say, I really feel excited by the things going on at Microsoft. It certainly isn’t perfect, but I’d love to be a part of it. In many ways, it’s my dream job.
Comment by Nathan Weinberg | March 28, 2007
Wow. I would have thought working for yourself would be a dream job? Is for me. To each his own.
Comment by TDavid | March 29, 2007
BTW absolutely no disrespect intended to those who work there and/or to you if that’s something you’d really like to do. You must have connections, I’m sure you could get a gig there if you really wanted
Comment by TDavid | March 29, 2007
Well, working for myself is the dream, but in that dream, I have more money. The whole blogging thing is making enough money, barely, for my and my wife’s current modest lifestyle. If I need something more, the job I want is at Microsoft.
Comment by Nathan Weinberg | April 1, 2007