We’re having a Halloween party and the costume contest in just a few hours, so there will be a lot more pictures to post soon. However, I didn’t want to (read: couldn’t) wait to share this with you:
Dennis: “Uh, what are you supposed to be?”
Charles: “I’m Brightkite.”
Dennis: “Oh.”
Erin and Cynthia, our recruiters turned road warriors, are making the rounds to college campuses across the country. With them comes candy, swag, demos, job descriptions, and the opportunity to get the inside scoop on what it’s like to work for Pelago and build Whrrl. They’ve already visited University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Stanford and UC Berkeley; and this Friday they’ve entrusted Jason, Kyle, Mahmud, and myself to make a stop at the University of Washington.
We hope you’ll stop by if you’re looking to work on the bleeding edge of location-based technology. Here are all the details:
Friday, October 24th
University of Washington - UW Industry Affiliates Career Fair
Paul G. Allen Center, Microsoft Atrium - 9:00am to 3:00pm
Friday, October 24th
Columbia University Career Fair
Alfred Lerner Hall 10am - 4pm
(register here) *students only*
Monday, October 27th
Harvard Info Session - The Inn at Harvard at 6:30pm
Tuesday, October 28th
Massachusetts Insitute of Technology Info Session - Building 5, Room 217 at 6:00pm
The Web Laureate is, by the site’s own definition, “the writer of poetry embodying the web experience by one who is especially gifted in the perception and expression of the online” and has written a poem about Whrrl:
Off Alaskan Way, on Elliot Bay,
Where ellsie o. likes to go sit
At Pier 66 many people hang,
On benches, others lunch with chips.
Enjoying the westerly view,
A sailboat, some ships, go past,
Remembering, some like to sketch,
I’ve been here before,
And I will here whrrl more,
Again, by and by.
Of course after seeing this I had to peruse the entire site to find some other gems, such as Advancing Methods (about the Obama iPhone app) and All By Myself (about Brightkite). This refreshingly creative blog is definitely one for the RSS reader. Hope you enjoy it as much as I have!
To keep things going from our previous test team lunch post, here are our adventures from the second. I’m trying to get these all posted before they’re too out of date! Do you have a place in downtown Seattle that you think we should try? Give us a holler - leave it in the comments.
Goal: Longhorn BBQ
Summary: It was time to decide on a lunch spot and Dan decided BBQ sounded good. After a veto from me for Mad Oven we left for Longhorn. It was a great walk. Easy place to find and it was fun walking past the Utility Kilt place.
The line was good and surprisingly the team was well behaived considering they had lighting in the place that resembled what hell must look like:
The cooks asked Dan what his favorite part of a cow was to eat and he responded with this:
The way back to work got crazy. Blade was impatient and took off across the street. Here’s a picture of Blade across the street waiting for us:
Is your feed overflowing with activity? Worried you might miss the chance to connect with someone nearby because there’s just so much going on? Now you can choose to receive alerts from Whrrl based on where your friends are in relation to you.
Configure your notification settings with any of these proximity levels:
Beyond being notified when a friend checks in nearby, you can customize what activity generates a notification with our granular notification settings:
If your friends are attending a conference or event and their activity is cluttering up your feed, use the mute feature to block notifications from them specifically. Search as you type to quickly create a list of people you want to mute. You can un-mute them again at any time.
Are there other notification settings you’d like to see in Whrrl? We want to hear your ideas, please contact us at feedback@whrrl.com or drop us a note on Twitter @Whrrl.
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