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Wanted: Front-end engineer with UX Sensibility (NYC)

mweiksner — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:14:44 +0000

I am pelased to announce that SocialFeet is hiring! I am excited about this position. We are getting a lot of customer interest, and it is high time that we deploy a bit of hard-earned capital for someone who can really manipulate the experience within the user’s browser. It’s also a great opportunity to play with all the emerging real-time streaming / social networking technologies.

Please pass on this link (or consider applying yourself!):
http://socialfeet.jobscore.com/jobs/socialfeet/wantedfrontendengineerwithuxsensibility/bv5Kv2-GOr3PI5eJe4aGWH?Board=socialfeet

FeedbackJar.com: Congrats on integrating SocialFeet!

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:08:03 +0000

We are really excited to go live with our second premium integration at FeedbackJar.com. FeedbackJar is a highly interactive and engaging site, so it is a terrific candidate for capturing and sharing its site activity with the friends of its users. Check them out, write a review, and then share it back on Facebook! We’re also qcodo compliant, so please consider SocialFeet if that is your platform of choice. Read our entire press release about the premium integration:

SocialFeet launches on FeedbackJar to increase referral traffic

Earlier today we integrated with FeedbackJar to enable their users to easily publish their activities to Facebook and SocialFeet. FeedbackJar is a great resource for local merchants and their customers to share and listen to feedback. Now when a visitor to FeedbackJar registers, leaves feedback, or responds to feedback, they can easily share their activities with their friends. The user benefits are clear– integrating with SocialFeet makes it easier for friends of FeedbackJar visitors to find out about new great restaurants, stores, and other local merchants and it helps to build a vibrant community on FeedbackJar by encouraging conversations. From a partner perspective, the key benefit of integrating with SocialFeet is to help drive additional traffic to their site through referral traffic from social media sites like Facebook. SocialFeet has begun to see the impact that this type of integration can have for our partners. Nick Leung, CEO of FeedbackJar, commented:

“We’re excited to have the SocialFeet widget working on FeedbackJar! SocialFeet is an excellent tool for broadcasting and sharing our users’ actions, which has driven more traffic to FeedbackJar.com. Using the SocialFeet API made integrating with Facebook Connect take only minutes.”

Sites like Facebook and Twiter are are driving a significant portion of traffic for many properties. Sites such as PerezHilton, Evite, CafeMom, and others have over 50% of their traffic coming from Facebook. Nathaniel McNamara, the CEO of SocialFeet, commented:

“The referral traffic that social media sites is driving is significant and growing at a considerably faster rate than search engines and portals. Our product helps to simplify and accelerate that process.”

SocialFeet is in discussions with numerous additional partners and is available free of charge. To learn more, contact Nathaniel McNamara at nat (at) socialfeet (dot) com.

SocialFeet.com seeks a Lead Developer // Activity Stream Publishing

mweiksner — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:54:24 +0000

I am excited about recruiting for our first real hire and adding another technologist (along with Phil) to our mix, because as you can see in the job description below, we have interesting and large technology challenges. And pretty nice financial upside, too.

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SocialFeet.com seeks to hire a lead developer for our early stage startup.

SocialFeet enables any website to implement “Activity Stream Publishing” easily. With the SocialFeet widget, a website can increase traffic dramatically by empowering its visitors to stream their activities to Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks. SocialFeet was selected to be a fbFund finalist.

Activity Stream Publishing is a challenging problem to work on. From a database perspective, you have transient streams (not just persistent relationships), continuous (not one-time) queries, sequential (not random) access and unpredictable data arrival patterns. From a UI perspective, you have ajax-y goodness a la Google Wave to manage synchronous and asynchronous messages in a small, yet highly contextualized, footprint. We have to define new standards and APIs for activity stream capturing and publishing. And our service has to scale not just to the total number of page views on our network of sites but to the number of interactions on each of these sites.

But of course there is dirty work, too. Browser compatibility; compatibility with multiple social network endpoints; and ultimately, integrating into every imaginable publishing framework. We expect professional, QA’ed and maintainable code.

FYI, our interviews always have coding tests. Primarily we are looking for folks who love to write code and are good at it.

Check out more about us on our site:
http://www.SocialFeet.com

Responsibilities
Co-lead the development of flagship application
Design and develop critical components of the core platform
UI design and development “that just works”

Required Skills & Experience

5 years commercial Java development experience
Thorough knowledge and current hands-on experience with JEE architecture and design patterns
HTML, CSS, Javascript, and AJAX experience

Desired Skills & Experience
Familiarity with Facebook Connect, Open Social, OAuth, and OpenID
Active user of social networking services (Facebook, Twitter)
Familiarity and comfort with agile development process

Perks

Join a visionary team early
Build a big system from the ground up.
Participate in the real-time streaming revolution, with the intellectual and financial potential that comes with it.
Poker / Tech & Beverage nights

To apply, please upload a resume and a cover letter at:

http://www.SocialFeet.com/about/developer

It's an honor just to be nominated…

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:56:29 +0000

fbFund has announced that we are a “fbFund 2009 Recipient” (see the entire list). The fbFund was created to support efforts outside Facebook that use it’s application frameworks (called platform, connect and iphone). We are happy to receive the honor (and $1000 in advertising credits).

It is our strong conviction that our service helps Facebook’s mission (to increase sharing on its platform), and this award validates our belief. (Of course, we also strongly believe that we help web surfers and sites, too.)

The new elevator pitch: "Activity Stream Publishing"

mweiksner — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:08:46 +0000

This weekend, Facebook asked us (as part of our fbFund application) to submit a description of what we do in 256 characters or less. A description of this length is essentially an elevator pitch, and I am psyched about what Nathaniel and I came up with. Here it is:

SocialFeet enables any website to implement “Activity Stream Publishing” easily. With the SocialFeet widget, a website can increase traffic dramatically by empowering its visitors to stream their activities to Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks.

I like this description because it is accurate, concise, plainspoken, novel and memorable. That’s a lot of punch for essentially three words–Activity Stream Publishing! So far, the initial reaction was quite positive on the Memorial Day BBQ circuit, and I’ll be interested to see how it fares with our customers, funders and other thought leaders in our nascent but rapidly growing space.

Hello world!

mweiksner — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:38:49 +0000

We are happy to relaunch our corporate site. We’re mostly focused on developing our service to capture actions on your web site and distribute them through Facebook and other social networks, but it is nice to have a place to talk about what we are doing as an organization and how we see the social internet developing more generally.

Welcome to SocialFeet!