Archive for July, 2007

BYOCommunities

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

F—: I wanted to ask you about the the Ning network.

Welcome to Ning
Ning, Palo Alto, California
Nikon D200, Tokina AT-X PRO 16-50mm f/2.8 DX
1/80sec @ f/8, iso100, 17mm (25mm)

Me: Okay, but I’m not the person to ask, you should have you should have gone to Lunch 2.0 and asked Gina yourself.
F—: How does it compare to [...]

Long live the Revolution!

Friday, July 6th, 2007

“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.”
—Ernesto “Che” Guevara
I knew politically, I was getting left of center, but I didn’t realize I fell off the scale…

The irony here was my brother bought me a “People’s Republic of Berkeley” t-shirt when I was in grad [...]

PHP and front end job at Grayboxx

Friday, July 6th, 2007

Today, I received another cold call for a contract-for-hire position in god-knows-where for god-knows-what. My resume—do you read?
In keeping with my new policy, here is another job spam in case anyone is interested:
Based on your experience with web applications and interface development, we believe these jobs may be of interest to you or someone you [...]

Sorry, my badoo!

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Working for a social networking company means I have to test out all the social networks out there. I tested one out recently and their importers just e-mailed 25 random users from my Yahoo! address book (no UI to select, they just did it as soon). I never invite people unless they’re already on the [...]

BrightRoll is hiring

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

I know everyone thinks that I have the hate on Ruby, but “some of my best friends use Rails.”
Actually, I used to work with the CEO and CTO of BrightRoll and they have a killer product. BrightRoll is a preroll and postroll advertising platform with customers such as CBS, ABC, Fox News, Comcast, [...]

Job: PHP senior web developer and QA tester

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Please see this post
Terrence,
Good morning! I’m writing in the hopes that you can help point me in the right direction with respect to my search for a Sr. Web Developer an/or QA Tester who has expertise with PHP 5, Zend, Ajax, LAMP, Web 2.0 technologies, and the like.
I will certainly pay a referral [...]

Things are bubbly

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

When are you in a bubble?
I say you know you’re in a bubble when people stop talking about what they’re doing and start talking about money. In the last bubble you’d overhear so many conversations of going public, options vesting, and 16-month “exit strategies”—I used to get sick when I went out to eat at [...]