Google Chrome OS creator takes job at Facebook, announces switch on Twitter

Google’s Matthew Papakipos, the engineering director who started and led the project to create the http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/112009-googles-chrome-os-a-web.html “>Chrome operating system, has been hired away by Facebook.

Papakipos announced his job change Monday afternoon on Twitter, writing “Now that Chrome OS & WebGL are in good shape, it’s time for something new. I’m going to work @ Facebook! Love the product and team. Woot!”

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Papakipos, who also worked on the WebGL 3D graphics API for Web browsers, had been with Google since 2007, and previously held jobs at Nvidia and PeakStream.

About 13 hours before announcing his job change publicly, Papakipos tweeted: “I love that in this busy crazy over-connected world I can still keep a secret among friends.”

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