A quick search shows that they are also hiring front-end game developers, designers etc. This could be very interesting.

This is quite true. My Portland State advisor (ex-Bay Areaite) and his friends and angle investing everywhere but Portland.

On a side note: any Bay Area Portlanders on HN?

That's a shame because there is some really interesting stuff happening around town.

3/4ths of the serial key is already blurred.

Do you mean I can get the key in ((26 * 2) + 1)^3 = 148 877 trials? Sweet!

This was posted on HN earlier: Donating Your Software: A Whole Lot of WIN! http://blogs.balsamiq.com/product/2009/08/13/donating/

Coffee: Stumptown (recently moved to SF from Portland)

Tea: Peet's Assam Extra Fancy

Sorry, not necessarily in real-time but I believe the ones that were posted here offered near-to-real-time.

Wouldn't it have been great (in terms of equity, leverage etc.) if you were at Google (search) in 2001-03 or Foursquare (location) in 2008?

What we are trying to solve:

- Given relevant experience, find and apply for a job in a field that's soon (within a few months to a year) going to be "hot."

- Given somewhat relevant experience, find and apply for a job in a field that will act as an intermediary to a future "hot" field.

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LinkedIn, Indeed/SimplyHired etc. haven't concentrated on this problem space yet.

We (one tech, one design co-founder + advisor) are working on solving many such hard problems that involve everything from trending, forecasting to decision analysis. Email me if you're interested in being a tech co-founder: aha.kalopsia@gmail.com

The author is wrong. Why so serious? It was nothing more than a tease to excite the platform developers. Proper announcement/demo will happen at an appropriate time.

- Attended the keynote + currently working at RIM as an intern

So have you touched the PlayBook yet? Is the OS actually at that level as of this moment? At least that's what you're implying there by saying you're interning at RIM.

  Why so serious?

Because people presenting deviced did not sai "hey, just kidding" at the end of the presentation?

So it's real?

The mobile versions of FB etc. won't cut it if the next 5-10 years are going to be all about mobile. And thus the need for a true mobile-only social app or "social OS" pending already existing vertical data.

If you think about it for a second, we still don't have that great mobile-only social app yet. The mobile versions of FB etc. won't cut it if the next 5-10 years are going to be all about mobile.

IMO, FB is extending its vertical with a mobile-only social app AKA the "FB OS."

"if the next 5-10 years are going to be all about mobile."

Yeah, if.