Looking to join smart, challenging team to change your Web

I have decided to once again seek full-time corporate employment. I miss being surrounded by smart people every day and the new synapses that light up in such an engaging environment. I have started talking to a few companies about working on difficult Web problems full-time as they strengthen their online business. It will be fun to fully invest in a single product once again in a specialized role.

I like to think of my work over the past two years as rethinking front-end development. In the social, distributed web our front-end exists beyond the borders of our own websites. It's inside web feeds, widgets, and specialized applications that deliver the right content at the right time to the right audience inside their consumption environment of choice. Web development is headed in this direction, causing us to rethink the differences between a website and a web application while delivering more context-specific experiences to our audiences. I have covered some of these changes at three Widget Summit conferences, taught computer science classes in China, rewired consumer electronics devices for the Web age, restructured large media companies to embrace syndication beyond their walls, and basically changed the way data is rendered and consumed. Fun stuff and I would like more challenges every single day. Many websites still need to better embrace the syndicated web and I'd like to dedicate myself to that type of front-end excellence every day.

So that's what I'm up to. You'll continue to see new product and demonstrative web apps released here over the coming weeks. The quiet of the holidays typically yields interesting hacks such as creating visitor profiles based on browser history, analyzing Google's new indexing techniques, or reverse-engineering Google Reader data formats.

I am looking for tough new challenges on a full-time basis among other bright, driven people. If you're building cool new things among a good group of people and we're not already talking contact me and perhaps we'll create some excellent products together. Official résumé also available, with the concise bullet-point summaries such a document requires.