http://www.jobster.com/at/person/show/122?hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers http://www.jobster.com/at/assets/images/jobster/logos/rss_logo.gif http://www.jobster.com/at/person/show/122?hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:52:23 GMT Most recently updated answers by Phillip Bogle http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/15255?answer_class=AnswerBase&hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers I worked with Sam McKelvie on a project called Waplets, which was essentially AJAX for mobile browsers. Waplets was an application model that provided async, offline, and push support for mobile browser apps, which retaining the simplicity of the web application model. For instance, we were able to duplicate the Java ESPN gamecast application in a fairly simple and easy to understand app. State and view were decoupled and rendered on the client using JSP style templates plus scripting. Application manifests allowed all of the resources required by an application to be reliably downloaded and cached. Scripts could register themselves to handle push events on the client with application specific logic and presentation. Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:52:23 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/15255?answer_class=AnswerBase&hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/15250?answer_class=AnswerBase&hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers One of the projects I worked on at Microsoft was a project called Redshark. We prototyped (using Java!) a number of interesting ideas in the Windows User Experience. One of the ideas was a simpler experience for Windows and browser apps that would extend the simplicity of the the browser model to native applications. (There was no need to think about manually starting and exiting applications, or explicitly saving files.) We also worked on a unified, semi-structured store that would simplify application development and support efficient fulltext and natural language queries. Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:47:09 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/15250?answer_class=AnswerBase&hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/15248?answer_class=AnswerBase&hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers I work on Targeting and DirectPost; we're working to apply some of the sophisticated ideas from other areas of online advertising to jobs. Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:42:22 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/15248?answer_class=AnswerBase&hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/15245?answer_class=AnswerBase&hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers Most Monday's a group of us head to lunch at Pho Bac for lunch, and most Fridays there's a standing Ultimate game at Interbay. I look forward to both of these rituals as way to catch up with everyone. Tue, 08 Aug 2006 20:41:09 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/15245?answer_class=AnswerBase&hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/12242?answer_class=AnswerBase&hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers Jobster includes an unusually large number of bloggers for a company our size. One of the ways we keep up with each other is by reading each other's blogs. Reading someone's blog gives you the chance to learn about them (and their philosophy, ideas, travels and experiences) in a way that is different than and complementary to meeting face to face. Some of the Jobster employee blogs are listed below; we have a page that aggregates most of these blogs at http://labs.jobster.com. Alan Steele: http://www.drizzle.com/~asteele/blog.html Jeff Jolma: http://labs.jobster.com/blog/jeff/ Joe Goldberg: http://bostonsteamer.livejournal.com Neil Crist: http://yarddart.blogspot.com/ Dave Lefkow: http://jobster.blogs.com/lefkow/ Jason Goldberg: http://jobster.blogs.com/ Laurel Fan: http://blog.gorgorg.org Meg Solley: http://www.going-to-the-sun.com/blog/ Phil Bogle: http://thebogles.com/blog/ Scott Haug: http://houseofhaug.net/blog/index.php Tony Wright: http://labs.jobster.com/blog/tony Brian Fioca: http://brian.fioca.com Tim Satterfield: http://labs.jobster.com/blog/tim Andrew Carter: http://ascarter.net Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:51:28 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/12242?answer_class=AnswerBase&hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/143?answer_class=AnswerBase&hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers Microsoft is not one company and one culture, it's thousands of teams each with its own culture. Be sure to choose your team carefully and to make sure that it's politically situated so that it's culture and mission can remain intact for the long haul. Though I worked on many different projects while I was at Microsoft, there was a core group of people who I spent most of my time with-- people like Sam McKelvie, Bob Welland, and John Cordell. It turned out that working with smart and fun people mattered more than the specific project we were working on. Sat, 22 Apr 2006 22:22:45 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/143?answer_class=AnswerBase&hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/164454?answer_class=AnswerBase&hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers Economics is something I wish I'd studied more of in college (Unfortunately the introductory economics class at Dartmouth was horrible.) I'm especially interested in how to engineer markets so that they take longer term concerns like sustainability into account. Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:09:56 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/164454?answer_class=AnswerBase&hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/147555?answer_class=AnswerBase&hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way Alan's blog Alex Bosworth's Weblog Alexa - Web Discovery Machine cheezhead : never bleu Contrary Brin GigaOM Google Blogoscoped jobster blog Joe John Battelle's Searchblog Jon's Radio lesscode.org Loud Thinking mockhaug O'Reilly Radar TechCrunch Tong Family Blog Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:54:15 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/147555?answer_class=AnswerBase&hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers