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The article made it seem as though sponsored product search results unique to just amazon and the other big players. Walmart does it - although not as well. Criteo has a product thats used by a lot of large online retailers that offers this as a service.
Authenticated Digital | NYC | Multiple Openings | On-Site
At authenticated digital we are focused on improving the quality of online advertising. We process billions of messages per month - which can scale to 100K transactions per second. This is a scalability problem that few companies have, that is incredibly interesting to solve. We are a tech company, building products that will be used by almost EVERYONE connected to the internet. The founders have built companies that have scaled to this level before, and are excited to do it again.
We are an engineering led organization and our our culture reflects it.
If you want to work on cutting edge tech and help clean up internet advertising, please reach out!
Some of the tech we use:
* Openresty/Lua
* Elixir/Erlang
* Kafka, Samza, Spark
* Redshift
* Druid
* Postgres
* Ruby on Rails
* ReactJS
Senior Front End Developer - ReactJS, ES6, Rails Senior Software Engineer - Scalable Data Services - Kafka, Samza, Spark, Java, Lua, Python
Learn more about our open positions here: https://angel.co/authdigital/jobs
You can email me directly jason@authenticated.digital
Authenticated Digital | https://authenticated.digital | NYC, NY | Onsite
We bring trust and transparency to programmatic advertising through pre-bid and post-bid data services.
- Engineering led team (everyone on the founding team commits code) - Huge scale - scaling up to a billion transactions a day - Opportunity to make advertising better for all stakeholders
Looking for Front End Engineer/Full Stack Developer to help build our real time dashboard (React, Flux, es6, Rails)
Looking for Back End Engineer to help enhance our data pipeline and Apis (Lua, Kafka, Samza, Rails)
If this interests you email me at jason@authenticated.digital
Your product will probably still suck. But launching early and getting feedback from stakeholders will help you craft the product into something that doesn't.
A few points from my experience building a startup for the enterprise (these examples are based entirely on my experience in the financial services industry, although from what I understand they should be easy to extrapolate across other fields):
The sales cycle can be/is excruciatingly long. Certain companies that signed on took 1-2 years to get on board after initial engagement.
You need to partner up/find someone who has the deep contacts/relationships in the big cos that would be your clients.
You need to prove to them that it will be cheaper (including the cost of switching, training, etc...), Reduce Risk, and allow them to "reallocate resources."
Inertia is very strong at large organizations. Building a product that directly competes with an entrenched competitor sounds like a very risky endeavor.
In terms of numbers Austria consumes far more liters per capita per year than the United States. 13.24 liters vs 9.44 liters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_co...
There are other reasons why "binge drinking" appears to be higher in anglo countries (US, Britain, Canada, etc...). Especially among the upper middle class. Longer work weeks than the rest of the industrialized world, less vacation days, etc... Drinking age may play a role in our propensity towards binge drinking, but I think it also has a lot to do with our "work hard, play hard" mentality.
The size and scale of Meebo is always a suprise, but they have massive distribution. See the Meebo bar - http://www.meebo.com/websites/. They are on some heavily trafficked sites (tmz etc...) where they sell quite a few ads.
They can be very fake: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09....
DealBurner has been my project for the last few weeks. Aggregates instant deals such as scoutmob, LivingSocial instant, Groupon Now, etc...
Sign up is super simple, just connect foursquare or facebook places. Then when you check into a place that has a deal you will get an SMS with redemption information.
While this was true - all the of major US carriers are moving to SMS-IP solutions as they move to 4g.
That argument doesn't hold much water anymore. I have friends who work at some of the top investment banks - JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank are two of which I know are offering the iPhone as a choice instead of the blackberry.
Also, a lawyer friend at a top tier law firm was offered the iPhone as an alternative as well - granted he didn't take it. A decision he regrets.
It's only a matter of time - no one wants to carry 2 devices and their employers are keen to it.
I think this a big mistake by rim. It's one of the few reasons that users are still on their platform. They also just gave all of their users that won't leave for bbm a reason. Also, from the wording in the article it seems that it will be vastly crippled (messaging only), cost money, and won't be out for many months.
Full disclosure: launching a mobile messaging app called freespeech at SXSW.
9-5 at an investment bank - Sure it's 4x the money (or was)- but it's 100+ hours of weekly work that in my personal opinion is nowhere near as exciting as creating new technologies.
I would love to see the specific patent(s) Kik is infringing upon. It's a pretty standard IM client, if as the article says it is for: "sent, delivered, read, and even when a user is typing a message." then RIM has a lot of apps to go after.
Could be something more than that, as the CEO was a RIM employee at one point.
Get in touch with savvis to do a colo at NJ2.
I used drop.io on occasion - although their free size limit was a little too small. Having unlimited, or as the terms of service say 2gb makes this way more useful.
Seems as though there are very few patterns that repeat themselves in a different fashion.
For example - it would be quite easy to solve which word is capitalized - or any of the math or series questions.
I wonder if Nicaraguan military would have made that mistake if Costa Rica still had its own military.
The c# version is pretty concise. And since 3.0 with implicitly typed local variables, its gotten less verbose.
var result = seq.Where(a=>a %3==0).Select(a=>a*a);
One of the main value propositions of web apps such as google docs is that your data is stored in the cloud and accessible to you AND others on any machine that has a modern web browser. The value I currently get out of local Microsoft Excel over Google Spreadsheets is waning as the quality of such web applications increase. I think the mac app store is going to be great for single functionality novelty apps, but any serious product, especially those that require a lot of collaboration will stay on and continue to move to the web.
In my small subset of the enterprise market, amongst my clients (large financial services firms) IE usage is 100%. Unfortunately I don't see this changing any time soon.
Joel is pretty spot on with his assessment of being a dev at a wall street firm. While the pay can be immense, it is clear that software is not their core business, and you are treated as such.
Also for every really cool cutting edge internal project, there are a ton of uninteresting internal systems (order management, reporting, accounting, compliance, etc...) that have to constantly be maintained and updated. Some of which have been around for years.