has provided some great insight into Toni Schneider’s move from Yahoo to Automattic. Toni Schneider was previously a senior exec at Yahoo’s Developer Network, but has now left the Internet giant to begin a career at the rising star of Web 2.0 startups.

Automattic is headed by Matt Mullenweg of Wordpress fame and is a company many have placed a lot of faith in. Automattic primarily provides licensing and service to large corporations (including Yahoo’s Web Hosting) for the Wordpress software and the Akismet anti-spam plugin.