Here is another random one in my e-mail box.
PHP Developer
Duration: 1 year
Experience: mid level
Location: Foster City, CA
Start Date: ASAP
Experience with Linux/Apache/MySQL/PostgreSQL/PHP5.
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Avoiding a repeat
Just got back from crashing the Xobni party.
Xobni is a Y Combinator company which has managed to reach the point of external funding. I have no clue what Xobni does other than make a Facebook app that tells people to e-mail you instead of send a message—I installed it in my profile just before heading out so I could not be totally full of shit.
Basically what Y Combinator does is give people a tiny amount of seed money to create a company, because WTF, it’s super cheap to create a Web 2.0 company. That’s a pretty good low risk, high beta idea, I suppose, but you’d have to be pretty young to be a Y Combinator company since anyone old can just jet over to the ATM and withdraw that amount.
(As you can imagine, I was one of the oldest people there. My bank statement I picked up as I staggered up to my apartment says I could start two Y Combinators from my checking account alone and I’m pretty much the poorest, most financially irresponsible techie in the Bay Area.)
[My party observations after the jump.]Continue reading
Bunchball looking for peeps
Rajat from my LinkedIn…
There’s really exciting things happening here, and we’re staffing up the team! If you know anyone who might be a good fit for one of these positions, I’d greatly appreciate pointers and introductions.
We’re also looking for a few consultants to help us optimize our systems: a DBA with MySQL experience and an IT Consultant who can help us harden our network infrastructure (DNS, failover, etc.). Recommendations much appreciated.
[Director of Engineering & Senior Server Architect positions after the jump]Continue reading
Zivity nears launch
Zivity is social networking meets photo sharing meets erotica (or maybe just fine art and fashion). And they’re nearing launch.
The reason I like them (besides the fact that they sometimes invite this wallflower to their parties) is that they share royalties based on popularity with both their models and the photographers to take the pictures. That’s how it should be.
Interested in being a sweetheart or photographer?
Today I received an e-mail confirmation to their mailing list.
You’re welcome.
Rawr! 😀
The double switch
*iPhone rings*
“What’s up?”
“You called me earlier.”
“I’m at work now.”
“What’s that noise in the background.”
“I’m watching the latest BubCast. There is something about Spock. They’re hosting a Lunch 2.0 soon and I need some fodder for our announcement. All I found so far was that shit TED posted.”
“TED?”
“You know…from Uncov? I met him last week. Someone on the website said he looks like Steve Jobs and John Lennon’s love child.”
TED drinks the blood of Web 2.0 startups
Mars Bar and Restaurant, SOMA, San Francisco, California
Mars Bar and Restaurant, SOMA, San Francisco, California
Nikon D200, Tokina 16-50mm AT-X PRO f/2.8 DX, built-in flash
1/60sec @ f/3.2, iso800, 17mm (25mm)
“Bub.blicio.us is everywhere. I was talking to some guy the other day saying how bub.blicio.us is everywhere and he says, ‘I write for bub.blicio.us.’”
“Who was it? Alex Ho?”
“I don’t know.”
“Asian dude, carries a Canon, takes event photos.”
“Yeah, I think that was him.”
*watching video* “Geez, what’s up with this cute-girls-reading-geek-news thing anyway?”
“I suppose that’s the new booth babe. That reminds me of the double-switch. Did I ever tell you about the double switch?”
“No.”
[The double-switch, t-shirts, and Lunch 2.0 after the jump.]Continue reading
Apple makes piracy “just work”
A conversation that never happened over iChat:
1: Hey, do you have a copy of the new iLife and iWork?
2: Yeah. How can I get it to you.
1: Let me get back to you…
1: Hey, my my iDisk has 10GB on it now, just put it there.
Your personality recharges your batteries
Nowadays, when I mention that I’m an introvert to someone, they can’t help but let out a short laugh. More than a couple people have called me a social butterfly recently.
…
My senior year in high school, a friend’s mother was having us play a charades game where you’re given a description of yourself and act it out as the other people in the church group tried to guess. Mine was wallflower. And maybe it’s a testament to how much of a wallflower I am when I say I had no idea what a wallflower was, let alone how to act it out.
I had this friend, J—, who had transferred in that year. He has that sort of natural good looks and handsome charm that girls just go for, but had the misfortune of being placed in our top math class.
(Oh sure, that’s a good thing if you wanted a 5 in your Calculus BC Advanced Placement exam, but it probably didn’t help the very much if you are a social animal like J—.)
I think we only became friends because one day in class I was really tired and started to rub my eyes in a manner he thought funny. My recovery was saying that this was an ancient oriental secret and he should start rubbing his eyes that way also and then he’d start getting better grades in the class. Sure, a side effect is that his eyes might change and his hair might darken like mine, but it’d be worth it.
[About J— and me at parties after the jump.]Continue reading
Socializr is looking for kick-ass-coders
Jonathan Abrams, the junior programmer at Socializr, sent me this. He is looking to double the size at the Socializr World Headquarters!
They have put together #1, #2, and #3, but they need #4, #5 and #6 to complete Socialzr.
Jonathan needs you to complete (his company)
Socializr World Headquarters, SOMA, San Francisco, California
Socializr World Headquarters, SOMA, San Francisco, California
Nikon D200, Tokina 16-50mm AT-X PRO f/2.8 DX
1/80sec @ f/2.8, iso250, 16mm (24mm)
Jonathan sez: “Form feet and legs; form arms and body; and I’ll form the head…FORM BLAZING SWORD!
I’m behind on my Lunch 2.0 postings so I’ll post it here first.
Socializr is looking for Kick-Ass Coders — Employees #4, #5, and #6!
Socializr is a new Internet startup founded by Jonathan Abrams, the award-winning serial entrepreneur who created Friendster, and the co-owner of San Francisco nightclub Slide. Socializr is a free web service for sharing event and party information with your friends. It is our mission to be the best site on the web for online event invitations, event promotion, social planning, and event photo sharing. Socializr’s offices are located in the South of Market area in San Francisco.
Socializr is a very unique new company offering a dynamic and fun work environment. The company is currently only three people, and we plan to stay lean and mean. We are looking for our first additions to our software development team. The ideal candidates will be able to quickly contribute and create results. We need energetic and fun people who are passionate about building a great consumer web application with large traffic and growth.
If your idea of a fun afternoon is rapidly prototyping a cool new feature, creating an API, integrating with 3 other web services, AJAX-ifying something by hand with tight code instead of bulky libraries, and tuning a SQL query to be 100 times faster, all in one day, this may be the job for you. On the other hand, if your idea of fun is sitting around in meetings or working on code that doesn’t scale or products that no one will ever use, Socializr is probably not the right place for you.
[Mad skillz after the jump.]Continue reading
My Plaxo Spam
Now that Pulse is officially out, I decided to “spam” my Plaxo members. I don’t know if it’s really spam since these are only the people already on Plaxo and I had to add them each individually (I wish there was a bulk function.)
[About Plaxo and Lunch 2.0 after the jump]Continue reading
Updating the college application for the MySpace generation
At dinner after the Facebook Lunch 2.0, a bunch of us at the table were trying to guess people’s ethnicity. Being in California, the correct answer might be like “part Paraguayan, part Uzbek” and shit like that. Half the people I know probably fucked up the scantrons when they applied to college and had to fill in the ethnicity bubbles.
Which got me thinking that colleges should just ask the same questions they do on your social networking profile. That way, when you get accepted, you can save yourself the work of making a Facebook profile.
Ethnicity? How many times did you looked at it and said to yourself: What!? The have a box for Eskimo and not for _____? Relationship status is a hell lot more useful in the real world. It’s going to tell me if I’m going to get a message from my friend that reads, “Are the food and drinks free?” (In a Relationship, Looking for Friendship) or “Are there any girls there?” (Single, Looking for Women). (Married? When was the last time you got a text from a married person? BTW, they should add a “With children” box to the Married profile to increase its utility.)
And with all the strange grade inflation going on, really, you can find a lot more about a person from the music they listen to, the books they rea… “Hello? Hey man. Are they hot? Hold on for a minute.”
And hotness can cross any ethnic line.