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Derek Thompson - Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees business coverage for the website.
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He is a visiting research fellow at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget at the New America Foundation. Derek has also written for Slate, BusinessWeek, and the Daily Beast. He has appeared as a guest on radio and television networks, including NPR, the BBC, CNBC, and MSNBC.

Is Apple Hiring Somebody to Build a Streamable iTunes?

By Derek Thompson
Aug 16 2010, 12:24 PM ET Comment

This job listing is good news for two reasons. First, it suggests that Apple is in the UX phase of providing an iTunes library that's accessible from any computer, online. Second, it's always nice to see that somebody in America is, in fact, hiring people.

Now there's more reason to suspect that the company intends to make a Web interface for iTunes. Cupertino is hiring a user interface engineer for a position that could be tailored to the project. The job description says the engineer will be "responsible for implementing interactive, rich media projects within the iTunes group" and proceeds to list familiarity with a number of Web technologies as qualifications.

Read the full story at MIT's Technology Review.


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