Personal news here. I’m moving on from my job at Xbox to go to work for a small startup in Redmond called SmileBox - or sBox as I like to call them. ;-)

SmileBox provides a service for creating interactive photo/video scrapbooks. They are located in downtown Redmond, WA. You may have seen a bit about them in a video tour/interview that Schoble did about them back in the Spring of ‘07.

I’m very excited about the change. At Microsoft/Xbox I was a contractor/vendor and so not considered a real employee. At SmileBox I will be an employee of the company, complete with stock options, so I’ll have a vested interest in the welfare of the company.

The main reason I decided to move over to SmileBox is because of the work that I will be doing and the opportunity to learn. They have a team of developers who know more about developing applications than I probably ever will.

And SmileBox has a very talented team of designers - two of them are former teammates of mine from Xbox. I’ll be assisting the design team by developing visual effects components that they can use in their designs.

I can’t wait to get in there and start contributing to the team. I have a lot to learn and I’ll be blogging about most of the things that I pick up.

Here’s a SmileBox creation with pictures of me and some of my co-workers. Enjoy, Dan.

Click to play | Make your own Smilebox