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Job ads: Product Evangelist and Web Developer/Webmaster
The company I'm working for, muvee Technologies, is on the lookout for a Product Evangelist in the US for our core product, muvee autoProducer. If you're a fan of muvee autoProducer (like Chris Pirillo is), and fit the requirements nicely, why not find out more about it - drop Tania (our Communications and PR manager) an email (find it over at the job spec).
The other position is that of a Web Developer cum Webmaster. This will be a replacement for yours truly. If you're competent in PHP and SQL, comfortable with Linux and the command line, have lots of ideas on website promotion, apply for the job or write me to find out more (see also the JobStreet listing).
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Open to ads on your blog?
If you're open to advertisements on your blog, the enterprising Jeremy Wright is looking to gather a, um, gathering of bloggers (GOB, usage mine) for an informal blog advertising network.
The story goes something like this:
Jeremy knows advertisers. Advertisers want to put ads on other blogs (other then Jeremy's, that is). Jeremy gets bright idea. Jeremy posts on blog. Now he's aiming for 50 bloggers for a combined 10 million pageviews a month. Advertisers pay bloggers for ad spots. Everybody's happy because we took out the middleman ad networks (and replaced it with Jeremy, who should be a lesser evil ;-)).
I'm pretty sure Jeremy will take a fair cut for his work and he should be able to get higher prices for ads. Frankly, I don't think I want to do BlogAds anymore, because of those annoying pictures that advertisers keep changing and because they pay late and take a 20% cut. If this goes well, we should get nicer looking, unobtrusive ads. These ads pay for my VPS hosting but recently I've been tempted to approve more ads than the number that actually covers hosting. Gah I feel like a sneaky sell-out, though I probably needn't be, because if I'm not wrong, most of you would be reading via RSS aggregators. Show of hands, how many of you hate the ads here? How many don't care?
Ah I digress... So, if you're looking for a little something to pay for hosting or earn a little pocket money, why not hook up with Jeremy by writing him an email.
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New iPod Updater - finally, something for iPod mini owners
Apple has released iPod Updater 2004-11-15, the software that updates your iPod's firmware. Notable in this release is a whole bunch of features for the iPod mini that were previously only available to iPod users. Nothing for G3 iPod owners though.
Stuff like Delete songs from On-The-Go playlists and Create multiple On-The-Go playlists should have been there out-of-the-box, while Hear Click Wheel clicker through headphones is nice to have. Can't wait to try it out tommorrow when syncing in the office.
Ugh. You need to use the charger (the Firewire one) to flash the firmware. Now I'm stuck with a useless iPod mini for the rest of today and the long commute home.
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Firefox avatars and a centralized forum avatar system
rakaz, maker of some very nice Firefox wallpapers, also has a set of forum and IM avatars. Very nice if you want to show your support for Firefox and perhaps get a few IE-using friends to ask you about your avatar. Anyway, that wasn't the reason I was looking for avatars. The reason was me coming across Tom Werner's Gravatars (or Globally Recognized Avatars).
Looks like a cool thing to implement on this weblog. There's a WordPress plugin, but plugins don't work on the nightly I'm using so I'll probably wait until WordPress 1.3, or if I ever get my butt off to try to get a CVS version to work.
(And yes, this is a concise, rushed entry because I've got my Half-Life 2. It's Half-Life 2 weekend!)
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WordPress devs: "No, we are not dead"
Ryan Boren, one of the developers of WordPress (which powers this blog), has an interim update on what's going on behind the scenes in WordPress development and the new features in WordPress 1.3. Pages, themes, enclosures, and a richer plugin API are some things to look forward to.
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