Super-hip location based social network Brightkite announced on its blog today that it has hired software developer Tom Anderson.

Solar company Solyndra, Inc. recently hired Steve Doll as their Web Services Project Manager.

Sean Percival was Content and Social Media Manager at Docstoc.com for a mere four months before he jumped ship to join Santa Monica, California based Tsavo.

Sunnyvale California IP service and security provider CloudShield announced that Kenneth McKeithan will be their new Vice President of Engineering.

News filtering startup Newscred tells us that the company has made its first full-time hire, bringing software engineer Asif Rahman onto the team.

Former Facebook Chief Revenue Officer and Amazon VP Own Van Natta has been hired as the new CEO of music aggregation company Playlist.com, according to reports from TechCrunch.

In March of 2008, popular file hosting and sharing service Drop.io was funded for $2.7 million dollars.

One of our first posts on the new RWW Jobwire site was about the hiring of Kellie Parker as the new community manager for gaming company Sega. Jobwire guest editor Sam Whitmore chose Parker's story as our first Featured Hire because of its significance to her former employer, tech publisher IDG, and the publishing industry in general.

Read on for Sam's take on the news.

In a continuing string of new hires, 451 Marketing continues to make additions to address growing demand for PR agencies with Social Media savvy.

According to her LinkedIn profile, Stephanie Ross, the community manager at high-profile P2P social change company Zazengo, has left to take a position with long-time social entreprenuer firm Campaign Consultation.