[socal-piggies] socal-piggies Digest, Vol 36, Issue 2

Tue Jan 29 14:48:21 PST 2008

I like Culver City

Thank you,

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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Hiring a developer for a small web startup
> (Lingospot)
>       (Steve Wedig)
>    2. Potential meeting in Culver City? (Grig
> Gheorghiu)
>    3. Re: Potential meeting in Culver City? (Mark
> Kohler)
>    4. Re: Potential meeting in Culver City? (Steve
> Morin)
>    5. Re: Potential meeting in Culver City? (Andre
> Stechert)
>    6. Re: Potential meeting in Culver City? (Morten
> Bagai)
>    7. Re: Potential meeting in Culver City? (Steven
> Wagner)
>    8. Re: Potential meeting in Culver City? (Cory
> Tobin)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:01:41 -0800
> From: "Steve Wedig" <stevewedig at gmail.com>
> Subject: [socal-piggies] Hiring a developer for a
> small web startup
> 	(Lingospot)
> To: socal-piggies at lists.idyll.org
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> Hi,
> 
> I haven't been able to make any recent meetings, so
> not sure if anyone
> remembers me, but I gave the "PyJS: Python in
> Javascript" talk a while back.
> Anyway, I'm now at a small web startup and we're
> hiring a developer. Send us
> your resume if you're interested, otherwise I'd
> appreciate it if you can
> forward this to anyone who might be. Thanks!
> 
> As for technologies we work with, we have a
> Javascript client that connects
> to a Python/Django/MySQL backend, plus an in-house
> natural language search
> engine.
> 
> - Steve
> 
> ===== The Position =====
> 
> Lingospot is seeking a full-time software
> engineer/web developer to join our
> small startup team, developing a new generation of
> web content discovery
> technologies.
> 
> We're looking for the right person for the team, not
> just a list of skills.
> Someone who will be innovative and energetic in a
> fast-paced startup
> environment. As an early employee, your work and
> ideas will have a big
> impact on the company. Compensation includes salary
> and equity. This
> position offers fascinating challenges, long hours,
> and big opportunity.
> 
> ===== About Lingospot =====
> 
> Lingospot, Inc. is an early stage web startup with
> funding, based in Los
> Angeles.
> 
> We've created an in-text search service enabling
> online authors to
> dynamically crosslink their content and increase
> reader engagement. Our
> algorithms automatically identify and learn the most
> interesting topics on
> any given web page, and dynamically connect readers
> to related content from
> across the Web.  We use linguistic analysis and
> machine learning to rank the
> topics, and present the best ones to the readers as
> links via Ajax. When
> readers visit one of the links, our search
> technology finds the most
> relevant content for that topic, such as related
> articles, news, images and
> videos. Our goal is to simplify the discovery
> process by reducing the
> distance between readers and interesting content. So
> our challenge is: Given
> the webpage a person is reading, what related
> content will he or she find
> most compelling?
> 
> Check out our demo:
> lingospot.com/demo
> 
> Here are some recent press mentions:
>
http://socalbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/conversation-with-nikos-iatropoulis-ceo-lingospot/
>
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semantic_web_what_is_the_killer_app.php
>
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/09/clipsyndicate-videos-now-on-truveo-bebo-magnify-and-lingospot/
> 
> The technical challenges we work on include:
> - web search algorithms
> - natural language processing
> - machine learning
> - high-performance web applications
> - web-scale modeling and data management
> - large-scale data mining
> - interactive Javascript/Ajax
> 
> ===== Required Knowledge =====
> 
> - Python (or Ruby/Perl for a strong candidate)
> - Experience with web technologies
> 
> ===== Desirable Knowledge =====
> 
> - Relational databases
> - Web app frameworks (Django, Rails, Turbogears,
> ...)
> - Scaling web applications
> - Html, CSS
> - Javascript, DHTML
> - C/C++
> - Linux administration
> 
> ===== Apply =====
> 
> To apply, send your resume to me at
> stevewedig at lingospot.com. Also please
> briefly tell us:
> 1) Why you want to join a startup.
> 2) Why you want to join Lingospot.
> 3) When you are available to start.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:29:56 -0800 (PST)
> From: Grig Gheorghiu <grig at gheorghiu.net>
> Subject: [socal-piggies] Potential meeting in Culver
> City?
> To: stevenwagner at gmail.com,	SoCal Python Interest
> Group
> 	<socal-piggies at lists.idyll.org>
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> Steve,
> 
> Any word on whether your company can sponsor a
> meeting at your offices?
> 
> Not sure how many people would like Culver City
> better than Caltech.
> Can we have a show of hands?
> 
> I prefer Culver City.
> 
> Grig
> 
> --- Steven Wagner <stevenwagner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > The traffic was just too bad by the time I was
> able to get out of the
> > office, and I would have missed the first half of
> the 
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