Mashable: Yahoo Fills Gig For Open Standard Evangelist
Paul Glazowski about Mashable...
Though Yahoo has certainly tried its hardest to close itself off to one particular entity in the technology world, Microsoft, the company is gearing itself to play a more open role as a Web giant in the coming seasons. Perhaps the biggest leap it made as of late was its registration to the OpenSocial coalition. Still, as many big corporations are aware, despite a company’s size, it’s necessary to have some manpower devoted exclusively to marketing the brand and all its various developments. In Yahoo’s case, open developments.
So Sunnyvale is pushing to increase open awareness with its very own newly-instated “Open Standard Evangelist,” according to Peter Kafka of Silicon Alley Insider. The company has nabbed itself a new hire in the form of Eran Hammer-Lahav, whose resume speaks of work as a vice president on the technical side at finance giant CitiBank and more recently as a developer of Nouncer, a project which, upon his transfer from New York to California, will be decommissioned, despite never having been launched.
Hammer-Lahav has for a long while been a proponent of open standards, being quite enthusiastic about OAuth, among other technologies. And now that Yahoo has come around to a much more accepting position of openness in Web development, he’s “excited” to take the position of OSE. And despite the hanging elephant that is the Microsoft-Yahoo deal, Hammer-Lahav’s ethusiasm isn’t very much troubled, saying that the worst case scenario could be his receipt of a pink slip complete with a comfortable severance package.
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