Monthly Archives: January 2007

Comment on Vendor Fun by: joe

Just tape every page of your fax to the next page, put it in the fax machine, and tape the end of the last page to the top of the first page. That’ll make an endless loop of faxing.

Comment on Vendor Fun by: Laurel Fan

I always see spam faxes lying around the copy room at work so there must be…

Vendor Fun

We have a signed contract at Jobster with a vendor who provides a certain gateway we need. We started using their gateway in October of last year on one of our beta products. We are set up to use a sandbox gateway but we have to go through a certification process before we [...]

Comment on Jobster Needs an Oracle DBA by: rachana

Hi,
I am intersted in the job.But i stay in india.If you like my my profile,please mail me

eCommerce Platforms

We are building ecommerce into Jobster and I am doing due diligence on whether we should buy some functionality rather than build it in-house.
This process is one of information overload. How many hundreds of “ecommerce solutions” are there, especially hosted shopping carts?
One promising product is Elastic Path. They have a j2ee product with [...]

Comment on Jobster Super Bowl Ad by: Jeff

Michael,
I completely agree.
This was the work of amateurs in a time crunch. We had fun, though!
Jeff

Comment on Jobster Super Bowl Ad by: Michael

The text is often hard to read. Also, text requires the concentration of the viewer so if they aren’t sitting there concentrating on the text then they have no clue what you’re ad is about. Wouldn’t voice be better?

Comment on 18 Mistakes that Kill Startups by: Chris Harris

After having done the startup thing myself, and watched countless others though it as well, I actually think #6 can be done better. Hiring the right team is critical to success, but sometimes startups can’t afford to hire a full team of the best people due to a number of reasons – most of [...]

Comment on Adam’s dot files and Carbon Emacs by: Ryan

I total agree. Carbon Emacs is the best option on a Mac. My reasons are here:
http://www.emacsblog.org/2007/01/13/emacs-on-mac-os-x/

Jobster Needs an Oracle DBA

Anyone know a good Oracle DBA? We are looking to hire one at Jobster.
the job posting