Will Speaking

My group at McAfee is hiring. I have a few different positions I am looking for... If you know of anyone, please send them my way!

In my group I have two product lines. McAfee SECURE and Siteadvisor. These products are in a great space - Web Security... As you know, many people today use the web as a way to communicate, shop, pass time, bank, and other things. This business unit within McAfee is focused squarley on web security, and helping consumers stay safe on the web.

McAfee SECURE is a SaaS based service that does daily web security scanning, to ensure your site is safe... This has some COOL technology behind it, that is here to make the web safer.

Siteadvisor is a browser plugin, responsible for keeping end users safe on the internet... It will tell you if a site is dangerous - maybe it is a scam, maybe it SPAMs, maybe it has bad downloads. Siteadvisor is there to protect end users, and a true Web security model.

I've got a few positions opened. Some in Sunnyvale, 1 in Waterloo, and some in our Bangalore office.

–1 Database Administrator in Sunnyvale (Postgres)
–1 Senior SW Engineer in Sunnyvale (Java, SAAS)
–1 Lead Engineer / Architect in Sunnyvale (Java, SAAS)
–1 Engineer in Waterloo, Siteadvisor (Windows, C++)
– 3 Development positions in Bangalore for McAfee SECURE (Java)
–3 QA positions in Bangalore (automation and qa for McAfee SECURE)

I'm looking for smart people, who are eager to drive this space forward... Technology in the most part is Java based on a Linux stack.

Let me know if you have any leads ;-)

Here are some of recent posts that I thought I would highlight

Social Controls - Child Safety on Social Networks

Cyberbullying

Scammers lurking at every corner...

Flip Camera - Keeping it Simple (why less is more...)

3 web sites to keep an eye on...

Top 8 reasons why APIs fail

Disturbing : Man run over, no one helps

Welcome, You've Got 12Seconds on 12seconds.tv

I've started using 12seconds.tv, a sort of twitter for video.. Really short video's (in 12 seconds or less).

Well, AOL Journals - the home of the previous blog - has closed. So my new home is Blogspot.com. It was an easy transition, because AOL provided some nifty tools to transfer all the old posts.

So what is WillSpeaking? It's just me, writing random blog posts. You may find it interesting, you may not. Have fun!

It's sad when a product you worked on is closing it's door.   AOL Pictures (soon),  and AOL Journals (soon).     But fear not, blogging is not over.    We have a lot of choices out there :

onsugar.com - DRob pinged me on twitter about this. Looks promising, and some nice style sheets!

twitter.com - really short blogging - but it works.

blogger.com - john panzer went to google and he is on this project. so it's in good hands!

wordpress.com - old faithful... good thing about wordpress is it has ton's of add'ons and support.

Check them out!

Early 2007 I was outraged that the dependable, the excitable, the fun,  the running man was put out to pasture... The poor Running Man had been retired from AOL and AIM's brand.   Poor thing.. The running man has always been associated with AIM, and later on AOL's flagship products.

So what is the Running Man up to now?

Well, he's got a new job.

He got a new color.

And is hanging out at football games.  With cheerleaders.

Here is the new running man.

I recently joined McAfee in a new web consumer area.

This group launched "secure shopping" about 1 month ago. It's in beta, and you can try it here.

What's it about?  Well, it allows you to shop online, finding some great deals.    Very easy to use,  and what's more it's safe and secure.

Give it a try. I'd welcome your feedback !

I'll be attending a Meetup in Santa Cruz tonight.    One of the teams presenting is a startup named "12seconds.tv". 

12seconds allows you to share video. It's upto 12 seconds long.  Long enough, right?

You can share from your mobile phone, or using a webcam.

This company was created in the spare time by a few folks in Santa Cruz. It has some fun content on it already and is in beta.

Check it out.

About 1 1/2 years ago,  I had one of my manager meetings and FS started to laugh.  And that started it.  We both laughed.   For a long time.  Someone dialed in to the meeting room, and we put the phone on mute.    I had to end the meeting because we could not stop laughing.   

That was the start. The start of the laughing frenzy.



Both he and I could just look at each other and laugh.

People thought we were crazy. Here we are, two grown ups.   One smirk from FS, and I cracked up. 

We often tried to discuss a myAOL module not working, or how we can deliver all this work, or the state of the time warner share price.  Sometimes we discussed why, oh why did the weather module not work.  Or how come David Liu ran into many problems with the AOL Mail module.   

We laughed. Not because it was funny. Just because.

The best time was doing a myAOL bug scrub.  It was on a Saturday around 5PM, in my office. FS, Michael, Namita, me and I think Tracy.    We started to review those bugs, and suddenly we laughed.   And that was it!  We couldn't get through those bugs at all.. We were all in stitches.       

I don't know what happened to me in these moments.  But it sure was funny.  I had belly ache from it.

Today at another company, we were in a room talking about bugs. Serious stuff, as you try to launch software.     Davoud, one of the managers, did the "FS" smirk, and started to laugh.  So did I.    Yikes!

And here we go again....  oh my! 

I've downloaded a ton of apps on my iPhone and now a little overloaded with them, so started to remove some.  

One that stands out is AOL Radio. It turns my iPhone into a little music machine.  I love that it has a local feature, so I can listen to local radio stations as well as the global ones.  It's really easy to use too.

One other silly application I like is Mr Shuffle, which I commented on before. But AOL Radio is the best so far!