Monthly Archives: January 2010

Going to Google

I’m happy to announce today that I’ve accepted a job at Google, working on the newly formed Social Web team. I will be joining fellow new-hires Joseph Smarr and Chris Messina, as well as a host of other incredibly talented engineers, in contributing to the emerging standards and growing developer community in this space. Instead […]

Identity and Identifiers

I still remember when I made the conscious decision to go by the name “Will” instead of “William”. I was 11 or 12 years old, and we were moving from Irving, Texas, where we had lived the last 7 years or so, to Olive Branch, Mississippi. I don’t honestly recall why I decided to go […]