about Web Developer/Designer Wanted – APIs/Wordpress/Facebook/Twitter

JESS3 is a fast growing creative interactive agency, based in the DC Metro area. We do web design and development, social media applications and PR, and general design work for local firms, as well as internationally known brands and Fortune 500 companies. We are so lucky that we in fact have an immediate need for at least one web developer – either full time, or a summer intern (with interest in working beyond)

Responsibilities

General web development (PHP/MySQL/CSS/HTML)
Some or extensive design skills a plus!
Wordpress setup, administration, and troubleshooting (wordpress is our current CMS of choice, however experience and interest in learning other is a plus!)
Web server setup and configuration (usually standard LAMP)
Interest in Facebook, Twitter, and other social media applications (we work with our clients in all of them!)
Assisting with authoring tech specs, proposals, and documentation

We’re looking for a rockstar developer who will be willing to join us as we build awesome products for awesome clients.

We provide:

Any technology needed
Conference budget
All meals paid for!
Flexible work location – work from home, office, coffee shop, wherever!
Goals-based work environment – as long as the work gets done, hours don’t matter!
Full medical/dental
Competitive pay

Please send along your resume, and more importantly, your website/blog address to jessethomas@jess3.com!

Desired start date: October 1

Location: DC Metro
Compensation: We offere competitive pay, with a performance based bonus! Exact salary will be worked out directly with you. – Telecommuting is ok. – OK to highlight this job opening for persons with disabilities – Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster.

Please, no phone calls about this job! – Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

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about Advertising Week DC

advertising week is going to be awesome~!

about tommy

David "Tommy" Thomas

he passed away this morning. most of you never met him but this man is in alot of ways what makes me who I am.. we shared the same personality traits.. and the same jokes..

I am pretty upset about this. but im extremely thankful for having seen him only a month earlier.

update:

this is the Death notice in NZ Herald

THOMAS

David Henry. JP. Loved husband of Alison. Father and fatherinlaw of Geoffrey and Christine, Juliet and Wayne. Adored 'Tommy' of Jesse, Kelly, Grant and Anna. Friend of Mike and Leslie. David always expressed the wish for a private cremation. In lieu of flowers donations to Wharearoha Continuing Care Trust, 1092 Hinemaru St, Rotorua would be appreciated.

about Las Vegas (MAGIC Fashion shows) - August 2008

James Callahan our Art Director at JESS3 came with me to the MAGIC fashions shows (and Pool and Project). We stayed at the Hard Rock and Caesars Palace. Great thai food in vegas at Lotus of siam. Make sure you check out the gun store and shoot some machine guns!

in the casinos ATM machines, they only give out $100 bills, and a minimum of $200, and they give you an offer to do that without a pin? pretty reckless!

all in all the trip was great. I learned alot and had a very special time.

Labels: lasvegas

about Bridget and Justin getting married

Leslie and I flew out to LA for Bridget and Justins wedding in Los Olivos.

It was great, and leslie caught the bouquet!

Labels: bridget

about Burn After Reading

Trailer For The New Cohen Brother Movie

this looks so good.

Labels: movie

about C-SPAN Convention Hub by JESS3 and NMS

rnc08.c-span.org/
dnc08.c-span.org/

This has to be one of the most satisfying projects ive ever worked on. JESS3 in partnership with New Media Strategies concepted, designed and coded the convention hubs for C-SPAN.

Leslie will be on C-SPAN talking about social media.. watch Friday Aug 22 (today) at 10am on CSPAN1. I will post the other dates she is on when we know them.

Labels: C-SPAN

about Busta Rhymes - Don't Touch Me

Labels: hiphop, musicvideo

about Facebook for Iphone v2

News Feed

In version 1.1, the News Feed contained only status updates and mobile photo uploads. In version 2.0 you will have the exact same News Feed experience as on the Facebook website. You will be able to see your friends' Posted Items, new interests and relationships, photos, and all other stories that pass through News Feed. You'll be able to comment on every story, and filter the feed by certain categories, applications, and friend lists, just like on the new Facebook.

Notifications

You'll be able to see all of your Notifications on the Home tab, and new Notifications will arrive in real-time while the app is running. We're preparing for the release of Apple's new push service, which will allow us to deliver Notifications to your iPhone even when you're not running Facebook for iPhone. I expect that to be one of the features in the next version after 2.0.

Profile Redesign

Profiles now have a tabbed design, like the new Facebook website, and a combined Wall and Mini-Feed.

Search for and Approve New Friends

This has been a popular request. You will now be able to search for people beyond your own Friends, request their friendship, and approve your own friend requests.

Inbox

In version 1.1, you can only see the first 30 messages in your Inbox. In version 2.0, you will be able to see older messages, all the way back to the beginning. You'll also be able to search your Inbox and see your Sent folder.

Labels: facebook, iphone

about GOOD Magazine Block Party

A-Trak playing Kanye West's Get 'Em High over The Knife's Heartbeats at the Good Magazine/Minna Gallery Block Party in San Francisco. 8/15/07.

Diplo remixing D.A.N.C.E. by Justice at the Good Magazine/Minna Gallery's Block Party in San Francisco. 8/15/07.

Labels: goodmagazine, musicvideo

about C'était un rendez-vous

A short film from 1976 where a camera is mounted on the front of a Ferrari driving at up to 140mph through Paris. The film was made by Claude Lelouch, who was arrested when he showed the film to the public.

according to wikipedia

Recent claims made by the director himself, however, suggest he drove his own Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 in the film and dubbed the sound effects of a Ferrari 275GTB.

Buster!

Labels: cars

about Cali + Vegas!! = MAGIC / POOL / Project

I will be out in Cali with Leslie for Bridgets wedding this weekend. Then as leslie flys out on sunday, James my art director will fly out to LA and we will drive to Vegas together for the MAGIC + POOL + Project fashion shows. gonna be awesome!

I found a place that rents machine guns, the pinball museum, and all sorts of tacky things to do.

Labels: lasvegas

about Braid game that will change how games are made

the story plays off of the game play in a really unique way.

it looks like super mario from a distance, but dont let that fool you. it has some inspiration from the matrix bullet time as well. its almost psychedelic..

a great essay about the game here and here

"This is a tough one for me, Iroquois. Before I played it, Braid looked like a game targeted directly at me and my tastes: thematically ambitious, artistically rich; an homage to genre-defining games I love. As I've written here previously, I want to play games that explore emotions rarely found in video games, like sadness and longing. I'm eager for games that don't fear ambiguity; games that offer open space for interpretation and rumination.

Braid is all these things. So why don't I like it very much?

I admire the game Braid wants to be, but I see a fundamental disconnect between the game's narrative ambitions and the mechanisms Braid relies on to deliver them. Essentially, it's a platformer/puzzle game with story elements interspersed throughout, separating each of the worlds. In this way, it's a fairly conventional structure, with what appears to be a purposefully thin story attached."

Labels: gaming

about Amy Winehouse - Cupid (Live)

this was one of my favorite cuts from her album

Labels: Amy Winehouse

about Lupe Fiasco - Paris, Tokyo

Labels: lupefiasco, musicvideo

about NYC - August 2008

I was in NYC this week for meetings with Dow Jones and Seatsmart/Wegotyou.in. I had my intern Eric come up the day after the meetings and we went all over the city.

Labels: nyc

about friendcompare.com

We got the URL! friendcompare.com

and also

IDEAINADAY.COM
APPINAWEEKEND.COM
IDEAINAWEEKEND.COM

Labels: appinaday1

about design v1

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about FriendCompare

we have a name and a logo - Friend Compare

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update:

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about app in a day - progress report 2

so we've changed the idea a bit, we lost the quiz for this version.

we are focusing on the comparison angle.

home

friend compare

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name ideas, mark had some great advice, "The only problem being, as with most of these "buzzword" names, that in general if users are searching by application name the name doesn't actually describe what the application does [unless they're native to the language"

1.FriendCompare
2.BuddyCompare
2.PalStat

If going for the similarity angle: (from mark hawker)

comparix
frollate (Friend Collate)
fratch (Friend Match)
friendpatability [Bit long ;)]
frequality (Friend Equality)
comigo (Compare Amigo)
friendalike

I am pretty sold on using the meat cleaver as the app icon, it represents cutting up data.

Labels: appinaday1

about app in a day - progress report 1

zvi and I are off to a good start with the conceptualizing of the user experience for our app in a day project, and eric is helping with branding, naming and logos, greg threw out some good ones too, Jay Meattle is serving as our adviser and has kept us on track.

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kicking around ideas, refining thoughts.

the idea is....

friend statistics, a full featured data visualization centric statistics app. with a really nice quiz feature. the quiz questions will be based on your friend consensus data. example "what is the most active wall poster in your network?" which we would then show 5 headshots, and perhaps the text of each's most recent wall post.

we still dont have a name or a branding style, but we do have the high level concept pretty much nailed.

name ideas, we can't have "face" or "book" in the name

friendNfo
401friend
fatstat
followthat
statfat
you me tree
statrap
socialpool
friend 'd
iFollowU
friend.ili.us
friend babbel
stat st.
popl'r
friend.ify
statulus
friendcase
friendbase
statuped
chumster
intimates
statkicks
palstats
chumstats
stattle
tomodachi
mimates
reverbermate
frizz (Friends Quiz)

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ill get back to work, and update you later!

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update

friend compare is looking to be quite interesting, the ability to compare up to 2 other friends with your info and highlight similarities and differences. this would then publish a new feed item that says "jesse just compared himself to zvi band, and leslie bradshaw" which would link to the comparison page. it will show a google map image of the approx location, and even tell you the distance between you and your friend/s

Labels: appinaday1

about hoverboards

for $55,000 you can own one too

Labels: backtothefuture

about obama in berlin

obama was in berlin last week and gave a inspiring speech to a crowd of 200,000... and check out the images below that show people waving american flags.. when was the last time you saw that?

"People of Berlin - and people of the world - the scale of our challenge is great. The road ahead will be long. But I come before you to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom. We are a people of improbable hope. With an eye toward the future, with resolve in our hearts, let us remember this history, and answer our destiny, and remake the world once again."