David Recordon, the Director of Corporate Development at Six Apart, is leaving the company to join Facebook after two years at the company. Recordon made the announcement on his blog, where he writes that he is joining Facebook’s Engineering team as a Senior Open Programs Manager, and will continue to work on open source and open standards inside Facebook. Over the last two years at Six Apart, Recordon was the Open Platforms Tech Lead.
Besides Six Apart, Recordon has played a pivotal role in the development and popularization of key social media technologies such as OpenID. In 2005, Recordon collaborated with Brad Fitzpatrick in the original development of OpenID, which has since become the most popular decentralized single-sign-on protocol on the web.
According to Recordon, Facebook has always been built on open source software, has released powerful open source infrastructure technologies such as Thrift, and this year become an active member of the Activity Streams and OpenID communities from a standards side. So Recordon will continue to focus on open source and standards at Facebook.
Who cares
exactly – who cares IF he does not *really* do anything about TRUE openness at Facebook? instead facebook will continue to lock user data up in it’s “black hole” called Facebook Connect
Daniel seems to care… although Facebook is open in someways, it has a ways to go regarding data interchangeability.
Jon @ WoodMarvels.com
I predict he will leave facebook for a job as Seth Rogen’s Stunt double
Thanks,So cool.
In other news, the skies were partly cloudy in Ohio.
That’s massive news. This really really proves that FB is intending to let users control their data. Good luck David!
Wow, congrats David on the new gig. 6A will miss you for sure. Good luck!
Sounds like a promotion.
facebook is making a lot of high profile hires lately
Nice seeing Perl developers (David and Brad) doing such great things for the open web. Congrats David!
http://www.clasilistados.org is hiring
Congrats David!
Is that Seth Rogen?
Word.
Who is David Recordon, what is Six Apart, and why the hell is this news?
Never attended any self serving web 2.0 expo have you?
who is Vake? what is he doing on TechCrunch? And why the hell is he leaving a comment on something newsworthy?
Never heard of him. He’s just another nobody.
Less nobody than you are, that’s for sure.
Probably even a bigger nobody than Karolis
**I make me famous**
Good for him (I think…) Hopefully there’s a good payout for him. Facebook is ginormous and I’m not sure any one person can enact noticeable change there.
I met David a few years ago. He gave a great talk on OpenID at the DC PHP conference. PHP is still crap, but David is nice guy, a good speaker, and a fellow SCUBA diver.
interesting to contrast comment trolls on this vs other blogs breaking this news. funnier, more negative trolls hangout here. sunnier, more optimistic commenters elsewhere.
(and if you think i’m talking about you, please revisit Carly Simon)
congrats to David! I’ve known and worked with him for a long time, and it’s amazing to see what he’s accomplished in that time.
I’m very happy for him, and I know the whole 6A family is too. The work he’s contributed to for OpenID, but also contributing to our community, has been invaluable, and he’ll be missed.
Good thing the Utah is only a few steps away. Hugs, lil’ bro – you’re the bestest.
Thanks G!
wtf, TC is now announcing manager-level hires… you going to start writing when college grads get hired next!
Congrats David and good luck at Facebook! Will be a fun, exciting ride
I think he’s Ron Jeremy’s kid. Must be packin’.
I want to know how old this guy is. It doesn’t mention his age on his blog/website and he looks pretty young. Any ideas?
He’s 23…
http://daveman6...nal.com/profile
Lets just hope the open world isn’t falling (Six) Apart as the advocates are taking jobs at safe heavens.
Welcome to Facebook