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I’ve been so busy the past week that I’ve totally missed all the blog-buzz circulating around the new Music Engine launch. The best part of this is how open the dialog is between the team, the users, and the (gasp) external developers!

Ian sets the tone beautifully with this post. Meanwhile, Real’s CFO either get’s bitter or doesn’t get it.

Developers, please take note. These are the kind of things you can expect to see coming out of Yahoo! going forward. Will the executives come to regret letting crews of hoodlems take charge of the Yahoo! product wheels? It remains to be seen. Not all of them are out of hiding yet and new troublemakers are joining every day.

AOL thought they wanted this DNA in their engineerers twice over, first with Netscape, then with Nullsoft a year later. It makes me feel good to see folks like Ian find a home at Yahoo! and thrive, especially after so many years of the Internet promising us so much leading up to the boom. In retrospect perhaps it just wasn’t the right mix of money and anarchy – the venture capitalists and speculative investors put too much money in too quickly and led all the creative dreamers astray. Alas…

Anyway, all this fantastic music stuff will continue to pass me over for now since all the computers in my house are powered by ARM processors or Mac OS X. Somehow it seems ironic that my living room speakers are playing the last great album Ian sent me powered by the ol’ iTunes. It sorta makes me want to grab the YME code and just freakin’ port it so I can have the entire music universe in my house and so I don’t have to bug folks for the plastic everytime I need new music. In time, in time…

So recently, a new collegue of mine, Jeffery McManus, posted his new job openings for the Yahoo! Developer Network on his website which were subsequently picked up by another collegue, Jeremy, resulting together in responses from a lot of quality folks in the blogosphere. Inspired by his success, I decided to make quick mention of positions we have open for engineers wanting to work on Yahoo!’s next-generation client software infastructure:

Senior Client Software Engineer

We need rockstar engineers with a C++ and client development background who also have experience writing APIs and libraries that earn the respect of hundreds of other top-notch engineers. If you know more than just how to drink Microsoft KoolAid, that’s a essential bonus in your court.

Build System and Tools Engineer

Looking for a hot-shot scripter who knows a thing or two about putting together build systems, automating and validating builds, and making large-scale software development simpler and awesome for everyone.

Senior Software Engineer, Open Source

We need engineers who have some experience in the open source community and also have a good understanding of the issues facing client developers, software inteface design, and multi-os implementation. Ever worked on Mozilla? If so, then you’ll understand the kinds of problems this job entails.

You can send resumes to my email address – skylar at yahoo dash inc dot com – or you can search for “desktop client platform” on Yahoo! Careers for the openings and post your resume there.

Did I mention? You’d be hard-pressed to find another environment with so much emerging coolness and potential. We look forward to hearing from some folks who want to shake up the concepts of what desktop and client software can do.

After uncountable hours of amazing and tireless work, the Yahoo! Music Engine beta is finally public:

http://music.yahoo.com/musicengine/

Way to go guys!