UPDATE: We first reported this hiring on March 13th. It makes sense that we show you the Twitter Blog post that announces it officially. You can read that post here.
Owen Thomas reported on Valleywag that Google's Visual Design Lead Doug Bowman has decided to jump ship and join social messaging superstartup Twitter. Bowman is an industry veteran who "pioneered Web design at Wired" and when he was hired by Google in 2006, was touted as the company's "best acquisition to date" by influential 37Signals founder Jason Fried.
Multi-service broadband communications and entertainment company Cox Communications announced today that it has appointed David Bialis as its new Senior Vice President for its Western division.
Health 2.0 social networking company HealthWorldWeb announced today that it has appointed Michael L. Millenson and J.D. Kleinke to be the newest members of its Board of Advisors.
The list of Yahoo! executives that have defected to Microsoft is growing. Besides executives, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the company has hired at least ten "key technologists" away from Yahoo!. Today it was announced that former Yahoo! VP Dayne Sampson has joined Microsoft as the new GM of its Global Foundation Services Group. He will report to the division's corporate VP, Debra Chrapaty.
Today WSJ.com reports that online publishing service Associated Content has appointed former CBS Interactive and Google executive Patrick Keane to be its new Chief Executive Officer. Keane says he was "attracted to the new job because of the "math and science" behind Associated Content's business model".
Kent, Washington communications professional Eric Berto announced on his blog that he is taking a job with San Mateo based sales forecasting company Right90 as its new Corporate Communications Manager.
Today on ReadWriteWeb, Frederic Lardinois reported that social web annotation tool Reframe It has added integration with Twitter and Facebook to its features and is looking at a number of interesting revenue models. What impresses us here at Jobwire is the company's executive team and the incredible list of internet luminaries that the company has put together to sit on its Advisory Board.
California based technology company Mobile XL announced today that it has appointed former Alcatel executive Francis Nebot to sit on its Board of Advisors.
Asheville, North Carolina Web professional Ian Wilker let us know this week that he has been hired as the new Community Manager at Brighter Planet, a company that "offers innovative products and services to help create a sustainable future for the planet and its people". Wilker says to expect an amazing new web app from the company soon.
Earlier this month RWW wrote about social search engine Aardvark and called it " A Better Social Q&A Than Twitter". The San Francisco based company has decided to beef up its technical team and plans to roll out a new iPhone app in the next two months. It has hired Director of Yahoo's Grid Computing Group and a founding member of the Hadoop project Sameer Paranjpye and Ben Keighran, the founder of mobile messaging service Bluepulse to help push the project forward.
