May 2012
2 posts
Geeklist's 1st Silicon Valley Hackathon this...
The g2 hackathon | silicon valley | May 4th - 5th
at our partners new incubator:
Geeklist and our partners at Innospring in Santa Clara and TusPark Shanghai are thrilled to announce that we will be holding the first-ever US-China hackathon on May 4th-5th. This is huge, and you are definitely going to want to be here to join in!
We will have leading technology and startup investors...
April 2012
8 posts
Hire Module, Available and Convos
In the next couple of weeks we are going to slowly roll out our new conversation tools and will be testing them with a few of our great clients, including, Spotify, Mongodb, Wooga and Yammer. What does this mean for you? This allows you to connect with other geeks while inside of Geeklist and goes hand in hand with another new feature: “Availability”. ”Availability”...
Geeklist Ambassador Story #2 : Stefan in Berlin
One very early morning in November 2011 I came home from a hack-session at c-base space station (the Berlin local and very first hackerspace of the world) and I saw Reuben (@rekatz) still awake on Twitter.
I had been programming for countless hours on a HTML5-site for our GTUG Developer weekend surrounding the Google Developer Day in Berlin, so I just went ahead and tweeted out :...
Your Cards Expanded and Social Links
Everyday we’re making improvements to Geeklist. Here are a few new additions for your enjoyment! Many of our geeks have asked for a better way to browse their cards on their profile page and this newest feature is a new and improved way to do just that. Now you have the ability to add up to 10 cards to your profile page. Also, if you browse the cards index page we added infinite scroll!...
Why ^5 on Geeklist and how 'Contributing' gives...
Today has been an extremely exciting day for Geeklist. We had the fortunate opportunity to help a startup foundation, The National High Five Project, raise money for Cancer Research using our own High 5 system. We got over 250 ^5’s and counting and brought over 5,700 views giving them some quality visibility for their first real fundraising event. We’re happy to announce we have...
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Welcome Jacob Chapel!
More great news on the engineering and product side! Jacob Chapel has joined our team as a full time Software Engineer / API Lead! He was previously doing consulting work for Geeklist and we couldn’t wait to bring him on board! Jacob’s most recent work has been the creation, support and complete development of the Geeklist API. He did a phenomenal job by taking a concept and building the entire...
Geeklist Ambassador Story #1 : Audrey from Paris
One foggy evening of November 2011 in San Francisco, Reuben, Chris and I grabbed a couple of whiteboard pens and started sketching out the path to the expansion of Geeklist, the path to Europe. At that time we already had thousands of users in Europe but we felt the importance of developing our local presence. So off I went :)
Our Ambassador squad grew really fast : in a couple of months we...
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Welcoming Jon Keating!
Please join us in welcoming our newest full-time member of the team, Jon Keating. Jon has been with us since very early on. A few months after we launched (Last year), he reached out to help with Geeklist on a part-time basis. His first project was the card headline / rename project, which he quickly completed in a few days; he later took on the “non-member” invite process which he...
