Well, the big news is I have taken a job at Yahoo as a senior researcher in social media (sitting with applications teams).  It was a really tough decision, but with the recession independent consulting projects were hard to find, so I decided it was time to find a get a “real” job. 

My new buddies are all the Yahoo communities/social applications –  Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo Answers, Yahoo, Email, Flickr, Delicious, Profiles, Y!OS etc.  There’s a lot that’s social that’s happening here, so I’m pretty excited to sink my teeth in.  I’ve spent the past few weeks really “studying” Yahoo, meeting people from various groups to help shape my research agenda.

What does this mean for Waggle Labs?  Well, with Peter still working full time with Pathable, and me now at Yahoo, we are no longer engaged in social media R&D consulting.  However, the site will live on as the home of our personal projects and blog.  We still have plenty to discuss, regarding social media, community, and technological art.  We’re still working on MyTwee, a twitter visualization/game that promotes green behavior, in our “spare” time, and of course we have our art/geek projects including Steve the Robot Head to talk about.  See http://heaid.com to learn more about that. 

We’re spending most of our time down in the bay area now, so if you are in the area, look us up!