Quidsi, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon, is one of the fastest-growing e-commerce retailers in the world. We own and operate nine retail sites, selling everything from baby needs (Diapers.com) to pet foods (Wag.com) to green and organic goods (Vine.com).
This position is for a mobile software development engineer looking to build and deliver impressive iPhone, iPad and Android experiences.
Growing mobile engagement is a core strategic goal for the company and mobile is its fastest growing channel. You will be part of the small but dangerous Quidsi Mobile team, owners of all of Quidsi’s iPhone, iPad, and Android apps. We also manage the mobile-optimized versions of our main sites.
Agreed the sum was largely because of the team but I think it was also because of what they were targeting and their experience in relevant areas, Bill Nguyen at Lala/Apple and Peter Pham at Photobucket.
Thanks! Our intention wasn't to build a sticky web service, but a simple hack that took a few days. We thought it was interesting data to see about ourselves and thought we'd share it with the community. Might it turn into something more? Perhaps, but this is just a simple proof of concept. We know (and like) Programmable Web, but as you said, no simple way to filter about user ID info.
We enjoy simple hacks that people produce that give me a few minutes of fun or some interesting piece of info. We try not to take ourselves too seriously all the time.
Fair question. The data at anytime is to keep your friends list up to date. The post on your wall is now required to offer the Facebook share button (bogus IMHO). However, you can remove both of those permissions in Facebook>Account Settings>Apps>Early Nerd.
I hear you. Would be tough to maintain "objective" results that way, but can put it in the list of possibile features to add. Note that we don't ask for a lot of permissions at all, the minimum necessary to get your ID. We also let you disconnect with one click in your account section. We absolutely hate shady app access and did everything possible to tread lightly, only purpose was to show you the data and make something fun.
There's a comment string below discussing that very point. While not completely linear, there's definitely a somewhat linear path for the IDs, although it's distorted by who was in college when Facebook was college-only. Feel free to join in below with ideas of how to better parse the Facebook IDs.
Interesting. We had some idea it wasn't totally linear but thought that the numbers (particularly for those that joined after college) had some validity. Do you have any thoughts on how to come up with a better algorithm given Facebook's ID system?
@handler Thanks. We hacked this together pretty quickly and were surprised that nobody had done something like this simply using User IDs. We think it's pretty fun.
Thanks, will correct the post. I hadn't experimented with how much space to leave, but had some serious issues when using the whole disk (via fill free space with music) and got some advice from the genius bar about leaving a buffer.
Quidsi, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon, is one of the fastest-growing e-commerce retailers in the world. We own and operate nine retail sites, selling everything from baby needs (Diapers.com) to pet foods (Wag.com) to green and organic goods (Vine.com).
This position is for a mobile software development engineer looking to build and deliver impressive iPhone, iPad and Android experiences.
Growing mobile engagement is a core strategic goal for the company and mobile is its fastest growing channel. You will be part of the small but dangerous Quidsi Mobile team, owners of all of Quidsi’s iPhone, iPad, and Android apps. We also manage the mobile-optimized versions of our main sites.
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