I'm excited to announce that earlier this week, I accepted an offer from Yahoo! for a Senior Web Developer position on the Yahoo! 360 team. I'll be starting at the Sunnyvale campus on June 27th.

I had also received an offer from what's probably one of the sexiest startups in the valley right now (at least in the area I'm interested in), but ultimately decided to take Yahoo's offer because:

• Yahoo 360 is/will be an awesome social networking/blogging/etc tool that'll be used by millions
• my past experiences would be highly relevant to the job, but I would also learn a lot and be challenged
• Yahoo seems more dedicated to their employees' well-being and development (for example, through internal training courses)
• I'll be in an environment where I'll have access to some of the industry's great minds and leaders, including people like Rasmus Lerdorf (creator of PHP) and several alpha-bloggers (and a large pool of smart Yahoos).
• the 360 team went to great lengths to pull me in, and convinced me that they were a team I'd want to be a part of
• as my first "real" job out of college, I think working at Yahoo maximizes my future options, both inside and outside of Yahoo