Month: August 2008

Our portfolio company Bug Labs is hiring.

The Bug blog has all the info here. They are looking to hire across the board:

We are actively interviewing for folks that can write linux device drivers, help with marketing and outreach (like our .edu program), or help write technical documentation. You can see more details for each of these jobs at www.buglabs.net/jobs.

We are also keeping our eyes open for a controller, biz dev, and ops person with loads of experience with start-ups, CE, light manufacturing, the works.

If this is you, or someone you know, let me know at matthew[at]buglabs.net

In addition to these great positions, the company has recently moved to SoHo and last night we announced a new round of funding.

David & Marco released a test version of Tumblr v4 to the public today.

They are still making changes but decided to let users have an early look. And I know they have a lot of things in the product plan.

I’ve been using this version since last week. I really like where this is going.

Here are a couple of things that I like so far:

1. I like the new update bubble. This automatically changes as the number of new posts show up in your Tumblr dashboard.

2. Clean look. Everything about the new Tumblr Dashboard is cleaner. Less navigation elements. And if you author multiple tumbelogs it’s much easier to toggle between them.

3. Notification when you have new followers. In the previous versions of Tumblr you had to click on the “follower” page to see who was following your tumblelog. Now it’s built into the Dashboard. This is a screen grab of what it looks like:

4. Photos are bigger in the dashboard. They look beautiful.

5. There are two places to check if people reblogged your posts. You will see it in the actual post itself in the dashboard and it’s listed as “notes”. Click on the notes link and all of the folks that reblogged your post appear just like before.

But sometimes it’s easy to miss reblogs because you may forget about your posts and won’t check on a post you wrote last week for example. Now when anyone reblogs one of your posts it shows up in the timeline in the Dashboard like this:

Love to hear your thoughts about the new interface.

Our portfolio company, I’m In Like With You, is a startup in NYC that has developed real time, multiplayer social games. I wrote about the company when we announced our investment a few months ago.

The team is expanding and looking for a back-end developer. Ideal candidates will have:

-an interest in changing the game industry

-experience developing in ruby

-knowledge of the merb framework

-experience with a high-traffic site including troubleshooting database queries and implementing caching for high performance

-familiarity wtih version control (svn or git)

Please contact Pooj Preena at pooj@iminlikewithyou.com to apply

Thanks.