Slightly more exciting than the headline might suggest... Richard Allan, the former LibDem MP who chaired the Power Of Information Taskforce has been hired by Facebook. The Guardian reports that he left his job as Cisco's head of European regulatory affairs 'to lead [Facebook's] efforts in lobbying EU governments.' Allan hasn't had a lot to say about the move on his own website, apart from a Twitter reference to starting a new job.
As for Facebook itself? - if you try to access the obvious vanity URL, facebook.com/richardallan, you get forwarded to /richard.allan (note the dot), which is someone else entirely. Nice touch, Facebook HR.
6 July 2009
[...] a somewhat amusing footnote, Puffbox notes Richard Allan doesn’t have facebook.com/richardallan (namespace collisions were always going [...]