We are pleased to welcome Alice. She joined Sportner, inc a few weeks back and has already proven herself indispensable. Alice will focus on product and community management activities for Sportner, from user interface testing and specification to planning and conducting user test sessions. Alice has already given many cool ideas that will be part of our first release (coming soon …).

Alice Glading has extensive experience in project management for top media companies (Bouygues, France Telecom) and Internet Start-ups. She is currently evolving into a product manager role. She holds a Masters in Computer Science from Telecom INT, Paris.

Welcome to Alice!

We are delighted to welcome Colin Langton. Colin is a computer science major at UCSB, and is staying in San Francisco for the summer. Despite his youth, he has been programming for 10 years now, and knows a lot about HTML, CSS and Java. Colin will be focusing on our Profile page, from Database up to the HTML, and on some of our AJAX components (and will probably help with the Friend selector).

Colin already surpassed expectations on his first day (actually first half day). Colin installed the whole development environment in a couple of hours, and already solved one of our long lasting IE7 AJAX bugs.

Thank you and welcome Colin!

We are happy to welcome James Ide as our first Intern. James is going to begin attending UC Berkeley in the next few months, and wanted to have a taste of a startup environment before starting college. We have been very impressed with James; in less than a day he was up and running and already coding some logic.

At first, he will be focusing on the “TagMedia” component of our service. This will involve designing the database schema, implementing the “Hibernate Beans,” writing appropriate web actions (part of our USP MVC), and designing and coding the web page. Yes, this is a lot, but given James’ performance to date, we are surprisingly confident that he can do it.

Welcome James!

We are excited to announce that we have some job openings. Please note that they are pre-funding job opportunities, so compensation will be weighted towards equity and lots of fun.

We are currently looking for one Senior Web Application Developer or Architect and couple Interns :

• Senior Web Application Developer / Architect
• Interactive Web Designer (Internship / Summer Job)
• Web Developer (Internship / Summer Job)

Each of these jobs has some base skill and experience requirements, the most important of which is to “learn fast and well”.

For the Internships/Summer Jobs, we are looking especially for students anywhere from high school to college.