http://www.jobster.com/at/person/show/281?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/281?hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:56:49 GMT Most recently updated answers by Alan Steele http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/95857?answer_class=AnswerBase It's hard to describe just how much I learned in a few short years at Midnight. It was a pure, raw startup experience: no funding, squatting in a bankrupt office park, facing your customer every day, learning how to sell, challenging every conventional assumption about how a company should be managed. And it was my first exposure to the world of technology startups, which has been the center of my professional life ever since. Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:56:49 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/95857?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/421?answer_class=AnswerBase I hooked up a dialup UUCP connection from our corporate office to MIT, because we weren't connected to the Internet properly when I first started there (yes, I'm that old!) Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:42:29 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/421?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/418?answer_class=AnswerBase Playing softball on the company team in the summer, and corporate league ultimate games. Melissa did a great job of organizing lots of stuff like that to get people together outside of work. Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:09:55 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/418?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/417?answer_class=AnswerBase I was the guy responsible for advancing a pilot deployment of a mobile IM solution to Genie, which is what the mobile Internet service brand of BT (British Telecom) was called at the time. (BT has since renamed their mobile service "O2", and the Genie brand has been subsumed as "O2 Live" or something like that.) It was a nifty project, and it gave me some very quick lessons in working with mobile telecoms operators. The product was pretty early stage, hampered by the constraints of dealing with WAP and SMS interfaces. (This was WAP 3.x days, and some of those phones were really crappy.) Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:04:52 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/417?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/412?answer_class=AnswerBase One of the really cool things about Openwave was how broad the global reach of the company was, considering its relatively small size. At any given time, I could IM with other employees in Hong Kong, Japan, France, UK, South Korea, a half-dozen locations within the US, Brazil, Venezuela ... we had people everywhere. And I got to travel to a lot of these places too. Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:06:43 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/412?answer_class=AnswerBase http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/146625?answer_class=AnswerBase I'm currently hooked on netvibes.com - it has almost replaced the desktop RSS reader that I had been using for the past year or two. Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:59:38 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/146625?answer_class=AnswerBase