I’m joining Google

It’s been 4 years and 8 months since I had joined NTT Resonant (goo). I was lucky they had allowed me to do many things I had proposed.

goo is one of the biggest portal site in Japan. First thing I wanted to do there was to let goo share profiles and social graphs across its services. goo Home was born as a social platform to accomplish that. Since the project started before Facebook’s platform launch, I was kinda shocked to see how Facebook made its platform.

After a while, OpenSocial emerged. My next mission was to let goo Home connect to sites outside of goo as open as possible. OpenSocial looked like the best solution. So I started to learn how it works, proposed how it will work better, implemented it into our service. As a result, goo Home became the first ever OpenSocial container (non-mobile) in Japan.

In the mean time, I became a Google API Expert (called API Guru in U.S.) of OpenSocial, and a Shindig committer. Holding hackathon events as API Expert, I also had community called SocialWeb Japan, which I’ve been trying to evangelize social web technologies to Japanese developers. My goal has been “let Japanese web more social” for these 4 years.

Today, I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining Google. I will be a Developer Advocate of Chrome/HTML5 in Tokyo. Here’s a few reasons why I chose Google and Chrome/HTML5.

1. Google has been eager to open and standardize various technologies such as OpenSocial which I respect.
2. I know they are cool by my experience as an API Guru :)
3. As an international company, I believe that I will have more chance to communicate with developers outside of Japan.
4. HTML5 is very basic technology which every developers/designers who are involved in web should know.
5. Browsers will eventually have to deal with social web where I can contribute my knowledge.
6. My 20% is going to social web :)

I’d like to thank goo Home team. They gave me chances to deal with cutting edge technologies. I wouldn’t have been able to work at Google without those experiences.

Also, I’d like to give biggest appreciation to my family, especially to my wife. She helped me since I was a poor music composer 6 years ago, when I had no idea that I was to work at Google.

I’m really excited to work there, expecting lots of great things. I hope I will be any help to the future of social and open web.

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