Just about everyone knows this already, but I’ll make the official announcement:

I am very pleased to be joining iLike as an engineer.

Some of the things I like about iLike: the team combines smarts with personal integrity and minimal ego; they ship every week and iterate and learn rapidly; they have a small team and flat org structure without excessive overhead for meetings, process, or politics; they’ve built a valuable service with tens of millions of satisfied users (their FB app ranks among the top in terms of user ratings); each developer owns substantial feature areas; and they have interesting problems in scale, data mining, syndication, and user experience. (Several fine developers I’ve worked with in the past are here, including Mark Aiken, Scott Haug, and Ray Fortna.)

iLike has achieved a truly impressive amount of traction in a short time with a small team. They are promoted on the back of every Ticketmaster ticket and have been repeatedly cited by Mark Zuckerberg as an example of a valuable Facebook app.

I can’t talk about the first thing I’m working on yet but will post details here when it ships.