What I actually do

I haven't said much about what I actually do at HTC.  But today we announced the service that my team is working on.  It's called htcsense.com and it provides web services to HTC phone owners.  It will be going live at the end of the month.  Here's the best write-up of the announcement that I've seen:

http://www.slashgear.com/htc-sense-evolves-dlna-remote-wipe-htcsense-com-15102322/

My main role in this is that I am leading the development of the recommendation engine that will be a part of this service.  The reference points are pretty obvious:  Netflix, Amazon, Pandora, iTunes Genius, and so on.  Recommendation engines have gotten so important and ubiquitous that they are basically table stakes for any set of web services.  Our web services not only provide dashboard-type functionality like making your phone ring by clicking a button on a web site, but also offer content to users such as applications and music, and once you start talking about content, you are talking about recommendations.  The first version of htcsense.com won't feature many recommendations, but that's because I just started two months ago.  Pretty soon, if you own an HTC phone and use the service, then you'll see some recommendations about what kinds of content you might be interested in, and those will have been enabled by me.  You'll also hopefully see recommendations being used in some cool new ways that I'll talk more about later on!