mikebracco

JibJab | Lead iOS Engineer | Los Angeles, CA | Full-time | Onsite

JibJab Bros. Studios is a leading digital entertainment studio based in Los Angeles, CA. From its flagship political and social satires, eCards and Messages, to its kids and family brands StoryBots® and Hello Santa™, the company has been innovating online entertainment since its founding in 1999. Today, the company includes over 100 world-class artists, engineers and business people working hard in pursuit of a mission to “make billions of people happy”.

We're looking for a Lead iOS Engineer to help us re-invent JibJab on iOS (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id875561136). For full job description and to apply: http://careers.jibjab.com/apply/GEwaRT/Lead-IOS-Engineer

I'm the product lead on the iOS app but you can ping engineer in charge of hiring at gustavo.barcena at jibjab dot com

JibJab (Marina del Rey, CA)

We're hiring for a bunch of engineering roles. For full details and to apply checkout our job board - http://careers.jibjab.com

- Android Engineer

- iOS Engineer

- Lead Software Engineer

- Software Engineer, Flash

- Software Engineer, JavaScript

- Software Engineer, Web Applications

- Database Administrator, PostgreSQL DBA

- Systems Administrator / DevOps

For those who have been looking for a native app to use hotkeys check out Alfred (http://www.alfredapp.com). With Alfred you can use the workflow feature to control Play Music via hotkeys (which you can use no matter what tab is active or if Chrome is the active app). I blogged about this a while back: http://mikebracco.com/blog/control-google-play-music-with-ho...

I posted question on Quora --> http://www.quora.com/A-B-Testing/What-is-the-architecture-be...

Signatures with any sort of graphics are terribly annoying. Keep it plain text people.

I'd be interested in knowing how much of that is android vs Samsung's crapware.

Google Voice is down as well right now: https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=Google%20voice&src...

SendHub team - I'd try to get the developer behind GrowlVoice (http://www.growlvoice.com) to support your service or come up with simular Menu Bar interface. It's been one of the most popular paid apps in the Mac App Store for a long time. They provide best way to quickly interface with GV from your Menu Bar on your Mac.

It reminds me of http://ducksboard.com/

Two observations:

1. Working hard doesn't entitle you to anything. Tired of politicians making this claim.

2. Part of rise in inequality is powered by technology. I'm sure in 1970 you couldn't have created a billion dollar company with 12 people in 2 years (Instagram).

Sort of off topic but related...

I wonder how the homeless will fair when we become a cash-less society. This may be far off but it's inevitable.

While initially one might think the homeless will be worse off, I can imagine technology actually improving things. Imagine some sort of NFC chip or ID a homeless could obtain from a shelter that would allow someone to give money to them from their mobile phone...and then perhaps gamifying the goodwill (leaderboards based on city or social graph) for the donators.

The most appealing and inviting thing about Vine for me is its flat pixel design. There was a great article and debate about flat pixels / skeuomorphism a couple weeks back --> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5204380

B2C businesses (like mobile carriers) that require customer contracts and/or other "lock in" tactics are destined to die through market disruption. "Lock in" is an artificial way to increase LTV of a customer. Market innovations that reduce cost of customer acquisition will displace these archaic business models.

I had the same issue and contacted Google Apps support using PIN of another account I already had. I told them the issue and they basically cleared out all the internal Apps data of the previous domain owner. After 48 hours I was able to set it up as new with Apps.

If you overlay a US map of broadband access on top of counties that voted democrat, the areas with highest broadband vote democrat with slower areas voting republican. It's a crude analysis but interesting.

I have DuckDuckGoog as my search engine in Chrome - http://www.duckduckgoog.com. If you add it as your search engine it routes all queries using DuckDuckGo syntax to DuckDuckGo (like !bangs) and all others through Google. Pretty useful.

I don't know if they still have it but http://enjoysthin.gs/ used to have a great way of visually bringing in new content as it came in.

Placing a case on a phone is like putting a plastic cover over your couch. I don't get it personally. Use and enjoy the disposable hardware and then get a new one a year or two later.

I know this is not really the point of the post but on a practical level I'd recommend Text Expander (if on a Mac) to anyone sending repetitive canned responses. Huge time saver.

I was being sarcastic people.

I was being sarcastic here.

Well as Eric Schmidt said, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place." ;)

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/21/top-10-the-quotable-e...

With this announcement by Google, we're at stage in the game were cable company execs hear this --> http://youtu.be/_hHDxlm66dE #finishhim #mortalcombat

This is a cool app. The functionality is not as extensive as this but Path Finder for Mac (Finder replacement) has a featured called "Drop Stack" which essentially allows you to pile files somewhere before you decide what to do with them. http://cocoatech.com/pathfinder/

I'd also add a tip to check out the Minimalist Suite http://minimalistsuite.com - It's Chrome extension for Gmail as well as other Google properties that allows you to customize the UI and remove of things you don't use. There are many that do this but this is the best IMHO.

The danger of getting my account shut down is the sole reason I pay $50/year for a Premium Apps account. The ability to call and talk to someone should something go wrong is worth it considering my entire life is in the account.

I feel like the solution isn't paid upgrades but instead monthly/yearly subscription for access in the Mac App Store. The 'appification' of the web is eliminating the idea of major release "versions" of software...it's just an app in consumers' minds and it will always be the same product (with gradual improvement of course). As a result, just charge users for ongoing access to your app and keep them paying by providing regular updates.

I'm baffled every time I'm watching broadcast TV and see an ad for something I would never in a million years purchase...and if the advertiser just had a couple pieces of info about me would never bother showing me that ad. I guess this will eventually come with IPTV and ad platforms for broadcast that more closely resemble targeted advertising online. The sheer inefficiency of shotgun approach broadcast advertising is crazy to me.

Great article. This illustrates a fundamental mistake that many believe which is that just because they have a college degree they deserve a certain job, income or lifestyle.

I'd like to see links to the team members' Twitter and LinkedIn profiles on the team page. :)