Yahoo's CPO Goes to Google And Speaking at Web 2.0 Conference

Yahoo's Chief Performance Officer (CPO), Steve Souders, is moving to Google starting next week and will be a speaker on "Creating High-Performance Websites" at our Web 2.0 Conference on Jan. 29. Sounders, who has been with Yahoo since 2000 was responsible for developing a set of best practices for making web sites faster. He worked on the YSlow Firefox (Firebug) extension, as well as the official Developer Network, and the User Interface blogs. He is also the author of a book titled - you guessed it - High Performance Web Sites.