I’m off the market…

Limelight (heart) Me

Well, maybe it isn’t love (yet) but I have, as of 45 minutes ago, accepted a job with “Limelight Networks”:http://www.limelightnetworks.com. So, I am officially off the market. :-)

“Limelight Networks is a leading provider of high-performance content delivery network services. Limelight digitally delivers content for traditional and emerging media companies, or content providers, including businesses operating in the television, music, radio, newspaper, magazine, movie, videogame and software industries. Using Limelight’s content delivery network (CDN), content providers are able to give their end-users a high-quality experience for rich media content, including video, music, games, software and social media.”
- “source”:http://www.limelightnetworks.com/about_us.html

I’ve pondered this decision for a little bit now (interviewed over two weeks ago or so) and it seems to be the right fit. I’ll be working with the Flash Platform (yummy…FMS here I come) on the day to day but also working with PHP, Ajax, and I’ll even get to do some Silverlight, maybe/hopefully. They just went IPO in June 2007 and a lot of people are enthusiastic about this stock. It is low right now (9 bucks) so I can get a lot of stocks for a lil’ bit right now. LLNW being newly public is exciting. I have several sweet ideas for apps that could help boost revenue or at least popularity and possibly boost stock. We’ll see how things go and I’ll keep everyone posted (for that not under NDA, etc).

Anyways…that’s the news!

  • http://www.xyzpdq.org Cody

    Congratulations!

  • http://www.maybeinc.com Michael Hagel

    Congrats man! Limelight is lucky to have snatched you up. I can’t wait to start seeing what you guys pump out (as long as NDA allows of course).

  • John C. Bland II

    Thanks guys! You know I’ll keep you guys updated (yeah Mike, non-nda of course). ;-)

  • http://www.donttrustthisguy.com jim.jeffers.myopenid.com

    Congrats John! Sounds like a cool place! So do they handle like the streaming video on sites like MSNBC or the game trailers on the XBOX site? What exactly do they do? Is it similar to what Vitalstream does?

  • http://www.johncblandii.com John C. Bland II

    Yes, that’s exactly right Jim. Vitalstream is a competitor along with Akamai and Level3.

    CDN’s are for more than streaming videos now. With servers around the world, they are a great place to host all sorts of media (images, etc).

    Thanks Jim.