We’re big believers in working asynchronously at Socialize. WSJ.com reports that on average executives spend about 18 hours in meetings per week. Thats a lot of time spent talking about work instead of doing actual work. We believe that meetings can be an inefficient way to collaborate if you don’t come prepared. We’ve even made
tl;dr: Check the Socialize JS Testing Framwork Out on GitHub At Socialize we believe that it is hard to move a product forward if those developing for it are constantly looking backwards chasing down bugs. Lacking the confidence that each change made to the code base will not create new problems elsewhere pulls innovation for
Socialize CEO Daniel Odio and president Sean Shadmand were driving back from a meeting when they got to talking about the importance of process in a startup. So they turned on SocialCam (which Daniel talks about using on his personal blog) and shared their thoughts in this video: Here’s a link to the Socialize Manifesto
If you walked into the Socialize office on any given day, you’d hear a lot of the same terms and phrases thrown around. Interest Graph is one of them. The Loop is another. And more often than not, “burrito” paired with “size of my head”. But the newest addition to the Socialize lexicon is something
Thanks to Jeffrey Fitzgerald for a great interview with Isaac Mosquera, Socialize’s CTO, about short-cycle SCRUM agile development, knowing how to evaluate certain technologies for a business, and what the future of mobile and social might hold, at the MoDevEast conference last week. Socialize was a sponsor of this conference, along with LivingSocial, Adobe, Millennial
It was only 2 weeks ago that Socialize held its last hackathon—but we were itching to get in the game again! Our last project, Interests Graphed, was completed in less than 9 hours. What else could we churn out in a days’ work? Kicking off on Friday at 9:45 am, the team decided on an
Last Friday was less TGIF and more CFSWCMHH (code-faster-so-we-can-make-happy-hour) as Socialize held its first ever company hackathon! Our team was busy hacking away from 8:30am until our impromptu project, dubbed “Interests Graphed”, went live at 5:09pm. Interests Graphed is an interactive map that allows developers to cross-section Socialized app user ID’s to reveal similar interests.
Chez Socialize, we use 37signals’ project management system Basecamp. It helps us keep on top of all our various endeavors and their related tasks much better than fishing through our email ever did. A while back, we put together a Basecamp bootcamp to help new (and old) employees get the hang of using Basecamp. Every
Red light alert! Someone broke a build! Champ points the finger of blame
With the Rib Whip of course! To welcome our newest Socializers, we trekked to some delicious BBQ lunch served up by the Rib Whip truck. It’s just our way of saying “welcome to the team—now dig in!” But that’s not all…A handful of Socializers also stepped up to the plate at AT&T Park across the
The new Socialize gear is here! Doesn’t our CEO make a great model
The Socialize team celebrated a monumental week for the company by heading over to Tres Agaves across the street. We gorged ourselves on margaritas and enough comida to last us through the weekend. Some pictures of our tequila-happy mugs