OMG/JK Episode 4: A New Hope

It’s that time of week again: the latest episode of TechCrunch TV’s OMG/JK has just landed. As always, the show features fellow TechCrunch writer MG Siegler and myself discussing (and arguing about) the week’s top tech stories.

This week’s topics include the demise of the Nexus One, AT&T’s troubled relationship with Apple, and plenty of other key information that will help you impress your friends. Also, one thing to note: you can now subscribe to the show as a podcast! Subscribe now, so you’ll never miss an episode. At some point in the near future we’ll be distributing a subscriber-only video featuring MG serenading his iPhone 4. You wouldn’t want to miss that, would you?


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Twitter Nabs Google’s Lead Android Evangelist. Next Target: Students

After a bit of a slow start, the Android app ecosystem is now growing at a rapid clip, as it nears 100,000 apps. One of the people Google can thank for that is Sun Hu Kim, their lead for Android developer marketing. But come Monday, he won’t be pitching Android anymore, he’ll be pitching Twitter.

Twitter has hired the longtime Google employee (he’s been there just about 4 years) to be a part of Twitter’s fast-growing platform team, the company has confirmed. Kim tweeted about the news a few minutes ago, as well.

Twitter didn’t have any more to say about what he’ll specifically be doing for the company now, but you can bet he’ll be playing to his strengths as a marketing manager. As he notes on his LinkedIn profile, at Google his job was “Encouraging developers from around the world to build apps for Android.” Now he’ll likely be doing the same thing for Twitter.

You may recall that Twitter worked closely with the Android team to make their native Android app. Earlier this year, the head of Android’s core library moved on to the mobile payment startup, Square — a company founded by Twitter chairman (and creator) Jack Dorsey.

In other Twitter recruitment news, earlier today, Twitter’s Join The Flock account (the account they use for recruiting purposes) tweeted that they would soon being recruiting for new employees on college campuses.

“Twitter University Recruiting is coming…need a Twitter-y name for it, suggestions?,” reads the tweet. Twitter is growing fast, but employee growth can’t seem to keep pace with user (and usage) growth, as they made pretty in their post talking about the recent scaling issues. There are over 20 engineering positions they are actively looking to fill — on top of several other ones.

University recruitment is a huge area of emphasis for larger companies like Microsoft, Google, and even Facebook. You’ll soon be able to add Twitter to that list.

Update: Jokes Twitter’s Ryan Sarver, the Director of the Platform team Kim will be joining, “he’ll be working on the twPhone 🙂” iPhone killer watch take 600!


LinkedIn Hires Shannon Stubo, Key Exec For IPO Run

LinkedIn has hired Shannon Stubo as their new Vice President Communications, CEO Jeff Weiner tells us.

Stubo, most recently at OpenTable, took that company through their IPO process. Prior to OpenTable Stubo spent seven years at eBay, eventually as vice president of corporate communications.

Companies usually stack their executive teams with people who’ve previously worked at public companies, and execs who’ve actually gone through the IPO process are particularly valued. Stubo will understand the nuances around complicated SEC rules around publicity in a pre-IPO company.

Of course Weiner says he hired Stubo for other reasons, and won’t comment on the company’s IPO plans. But it’s clear LinkedIn is looking to file for an IPO sometime in the next few financial quarters. Unless, of course, one of the big guys makes them an acquisition offer they can’t refuse.

This isn’t the first addition to the LinkedIn team that indicates that the company is looking to boost its experience of advising a company through an IPO. Earlier this year, LinkedIn brought on its first outside board member, Skip Battle, former Ask.com CEO and board member of Netflix, Expedia and OpenTable. While Weiner told us at the time that Battle’s experience advising consumer focused and enterprise companies made him an ideal choice, it’s clear that the seasoned exec’s role in helping lead a number of technology companies through a public offering may have been a factor as well.

I sat down with Weiner earlier today to talk about the hiring of Stubo and to talk about LinkedIn in general. The company has 70 million users now, and about 40 million people visit the site each month.

He doesn’t see LinkedIn as a professional version of Facebook. I asked him if LinkedIn, which generates significant revenue from job listings and from companies that pay for insights into people for recruiting purposes, if he considers Facebook or Monster the more direct competitor.

Neither, he said. LinkedIn is a unique thing. And just as people think of Starbucks for coffee or Google for search, he wants them to think of LinkedIn for human talent – finding jobs, finding people and making people more successful in business.


VH1 Will Be Promoting Foursquare On National Television All Summer Long

The caliber of the partnerships that location-based startup Foursquare keeps landing continues to be impressive. A new tie-up with VH1 will see the cable network promoting Foursquare through the commercial below — all Summer long.

Foursquare has had commercials before — like this Bravo one in February — but this one should be the biggest draw for the masses yet. Foursquare has linked up with VH1 and Live Nation for an “unlock it to rock it” promotion. The commercial not only plays up the ability to win Foursquare badges, but also a contest that will have a winner getting access to a year’s worth of concerts for free.

The commercial showcases key Foursquare functionality: the ability to check-in to places around your city and get tips. VH1′s Foursquare account also gives you the added bonus of getting tip from celebrities — well, if you consider that a bonus.

It took quite a bit of time for other hot startups like Twitter to get this kind of mainstream exposure. Foursquare is getting it much, much faster. And again, this will be playing on VH1 all Summer (Foursquare head of business development Tristan Walker also hints that the promotion will extend past this Summer).


Article Writing – Asap

I require 10 articles of 500 words each.

What I need done:
This is a very simple and quick project for someone who knows what they are doing. You are required to write articles for the wedding industry. The successful bidder will be provided with content/information to assist in the writing of the articles.

• Each article is to be 500 words in length.
• Title must be strong and must capture the attention of the reader – the reader must want to know more
• Main keyword must be in the title
• First sentence must be powerful, and main keyword must appear at least once in first sentence and at least twice in first paragraph
• Keywords should be included in every paragraph, once or twice
• Use bullet points to emphasise main points
• Keyword density 3%
• Specific keywords will be given

The writing style and content are to be interesting, informative and usable and in plain English. English MUST be your first language.

Please ensure that in using content from other websites/sources you are not simply cutting and pasting. Please do not infringe copyright. All work must be original and pass plagiarism test.

I will retain complete ownership and copyright and have exclusive right to use all work produced for this project. Full payment will be made into escrow and released when project is complete.There will be no part payments.

There may be on going work for the right person.

Specific expertise that I am seeking:
You MUST have English as a first language.
Please provide examples of your work in your bid.

Timeframe for delivery:
* First article to be delivered ASAP but within 24 hours of project being awarded. (My time zone is Brisbane, Australia, and you must be able to work within this time zone)
* All remaining articles completed including any reviews within 4 days of my accepting your bid.

Start date of the project after selecting a bid:
Immediately.

Templatemonster-style Catalog Project.. 2

Smart Webs USA is a US-based Web Design Company that serves small and medium-size businesses. We have 800 Joomla themes and 500 WordPress designs that we want to include on our website for our clients.

You have all seen templatemoster.com and other template sites. Ours will be similar but without payments. This catalog of templates will be iFramed into our website. We want enhanced search capabilities. Every template will have a unique number and belong to a category.

All template will be provided from a File download site. You must use the thumbnails and create a lightbox effect for pop-up/zoom in.

This project will be completed in 30 days or less.

Please bid accordingly.

Smart Webs USA

Facebook Script

Looking for a simple facebook FbmL script to be made. we all know the power of facebook and what it can do and bring visiters and sales to your products.I need someone to design a unique facebook fan page viral script that can be implemented on a fan page, when a user clicks like it should then ask them to perform another action (this part has to be unique) once the action is completed the script will automatically send all that users friends a page invite. the page should then redirect to an external site of my choice.

Data Entry Fast

i want someone who understands english and works fast. you will search for a keyword on yahoo and then go to each website in the search result and email them.

you will get $0.05 for each email sent.

i will give you all the information for emails. you will just copy/paste.

FREELANCERS ONLY. no companies.

bid only if you agree.

Seo Project Long Term Work

DO NOT APPLY IF YOU DON’T HAVE 10 reviews MINIMUM…!

You really need to know your stuff for me to work with you.

You must have 10 reviews minimum to apply for this post

You must speak clear english and you will need to use gtalk

to communicate with me daily if possible

Your task…

Don’t bother asking for the site or keywords as you will receive that

if you suitable for this SEO project.

You will be given 10 keywords to improve rankings for. The site is current or either page 2 or 3 for each of the keywords.

You will need to create web 2.0 propurties first with unique articles on each. Then use anchor text within each article.

Then bookmark the web 2.0 site through socialmarker or onlywire or a simpler site.

then convert to web 2.0 site into rss feeds and submit them to RSS Aggregators…

You need to be good! This all needs to be hand submitted…

Then you need to go out and find a few hundred high page rank links and place the anchor text on those sites… etc. etc.

I NEED PROOF THAT YOU CAN DO THE ABOVE WORK… Send me a link to daily reports that you’ve done for other sites… Again, i want to see the reports that you send the customer…

You’ll be required to send me a report every 3 days minimum…

DO NOT APPLY IF YOU DON’T HAVE 10 reviews MINIMUM…!

I need to see those keyword move into the number 1 to 3 positions in google.ca in 3 weeks to one month (that is all i care about) if you do that then you’ll have more work from me the next month…

English Forum Poster Needed

i want someone to post meaningful and valuable replies on forums. i will give you the list of forums. you will register and then post replies on them. few things you have to ensure

– all replies should be meaningful, no spam or one line replies
– the forum should allow signature links (they might make you wait, that’s OK. keep posting until you can post signature links)
– you must post daily on at least 20 forums without missing a day
– you will get 15 cents per post

payment will be made every week.

BID ONLY IF YOU AGREE

Add Tab Menu To Zencart

We would like a simple tab menu added to zencart in the center column.

We know how to add the tab menu for links to articles but we cant get the template right.

We are looking at using the tabs menu here http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/simple-tabs-w-css-jquery/ but it can be any tab menu you feel is appropriate.

We should also be able to easily ad content via link in the control panel.

This should be an easy cheap project as its simply adding this to that and we believe someone fluent in zencart should be able to knock this out in a few minutes.

Please note we do not believe based on experience this should cost more than $35.00.

Thank you for considering our project.

Bistro

I want a new Restaurant/bistro website created.

Should be in Joomla with CMS.
Options to add Food images.
Should be able to add contents,pages,sub-pages with ease.
Should have a wordpress3.0 Blog integrated.
Social media plugin and links from Home page or header
Approx 15-20 pages including inner pages/menu description etc
On menus, if the cursor is brought, it pops a box with description of the menu. (Like what happens in text link ads)

Integreate Getresponse Api With Crm

I have a hosted CRM solution.

I want to be able to assign a contact to a campaign in Getresponse (a email campaign company).

The main functionality I need is to be able to change the contact from one campaign to another… however it would be nice if I could also see information like what email # the person is on in that particular campaign, or if the ability exists, to pause the campaign or opt them out of it.

Here is the GetResponse API.

Patton-fuller Community Hospital Networking Project 5

• Resources: Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Networking Virtual Organization

• Prepare a 1,400- to 2,450-word paper.

• Describe what steps must be taken to update the hospital infrastructure (and software) to ensure that patient privacy is maintained and all governmental regulations are met.

• Use current instances of cyber attacks to describe the types of risks that are involved with use of the hospital systems and what must be done to reduce or mitigate the risks.

• Identify the metrics used to determine network efficiency and effectiveness.

• Describe why metrics are necessary to obtain the most effective use of network assets.

• Format your paper according to APA standards.

Please list at least 3 resources/references.