I wanted to take a brief moment to introduce myself.  I’m the new product manager for Data Availability, and you all have no idea how excited I am to be at MySpace getting the chance to spend my time working towards enabling a more social web.  Before this I was at Yahoo!, first on the games team helping build our community tools for developers and players.  I later worked on the “Yahoo! Open Strategy” as a product manager for our application platform and OpenSocial implementation. 

You’ll find me a fan of all things open.  Don’t get me started on my love of OAuth, OpenID, XFN, FOAF, microformats, etc.  In all honest geekery, thinking about what we can do to transform online identity by embracing a philosophy of openness literally keeps me up at night.

I'm thrilled to be diving right in and getting to work with smart, creative, and passionate people on the Data Availability project.  We have some really exciting things coming down the pipes, and I think you’ll be delighted by what you see.

Cheers!

Max Engel aka 8BitKid