Tom Coates leaves for Yahoo!

Congratulations to Tom Coates who is leaving the BBC to work for Yahoo!

The sucking sound from Sunnyvale continues.

While I realize what an opportunity it would be to work at an Internet giant like Yahoo! or Google, it does concern me to see a trend where these two companies are literally hiring every single talented engineer or designer. It may be a competitive advantage, but this creates a monoculture and de-facto oligopoly that I believe is unhealthy for both the industry and to the Internet at large.

This has nothing to do with Tom (and let me apologize to him in advance for using his news to gripe about this), it's just that I am seeing so much hiring by Yahoo! and Google these days, it is very sobering.

Farewell BBC - and hello Yahoo! (plasticbag.org)