Archive for August, 2009

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Tinker Gets A High-Octane Boost

The team is hard at work improving Tinker, and we wanted to let you to know that today we launched a few improvements that will greatly increase the speed of the site. Now you can follow events, news, and topics at twice the speed with half the hassle. Enjoy!

-Jeremy Carr, Tinker Product Manager

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

INTERN ALERT: Tinker.com Wants YOU!

Dear future interns,

We’re very excited to announce Glam’s 2009 Fall intern program. This year, we’re primarily focusing our efforts on Tinker.com, the latest chapter in the social media revolution. Ever wonder what it’s like working at an internet startup? Curious about the micro-blogging revolution, and what’s going on at the cutting edge of content creation and distribution? Look no further, we may have the perfect opportunity for you…

Glam Media is looking for a Fall semester intern to join our intern training program, focused this year on Tinker.com! Tinker is the latest innovative product from Glam Media, allowing users and advertisers to find, follow, filter, and share the real-time conversations happening on Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, etc. Some recent coverage in Techcrunch: http://tnkr.in/tk

Are you hungry to shape the social media revolution sweeping across the Web 2.0 landscape? Do you thirst for a chance to make a significant impact at a startup with a proven track record of innovation? Do you thrive on challenge and absorbing new information? Join Glam’s Tinker intern program and experience the inner workings of a high growth internet business from the team that is responsible for pushing the bar on innovation, and supplying the entire company with the thought leadership critical to driving the business forward.

Being a Tinker intern means having experience and training from all members of our team. As part of this program, interns will receive ongoing mentorship and training. All internships require a commitment of a minimum of 10 hours per week for 8 weeks.

Internship Opportunities are Unpaid.

Tinker Intern Training Program: includes a wide variety of opportunities in the multitude of initiatives required to launch and sustain an innovative website experiencing explosive growth. This position offers you all the responsibility you can handle; the sky is the limit. Responsibilities could include learning and implementing community management, learning and implementing project management, learning and implementing product design, learning and implementing marketing, learning and implementing writing copy, and learning and implementing general support roles.

Responsibilities Could Include:
• Learn how to find, create, and share the latest buzz happening around the world on the web.
• Learn to research, analyze, and ultimately push our cutting edge trend technology to the next level.
• Learn to present the strengths and weaknesses of the Twitter/microblogging competitive landscape.
• Learn user experience and interface design; engage with customer research and focus groups.
• Learn explore and execute possible Tinker partnerships- events, newspapers, etc.
• Learn to help define and execute the next generation of our GlamTV video product.
• Learn project management support for the entire Tinker product backlog and engineering team.

Additional Qualifications:
• Proactive and highly organized – ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Interest in learning about social media and online advertising monetization
• Marketing or technical experience preferred
• Internship must be an essential part of an established course of an accredited school or institution to provide training and school credit.

Who We Are: Glam Media is the fastest-growing lifestyle Web property reaching more than 61 million unique visitors a month in the U.S. and over 111 million unique visitors worldwide and ranks first in Top 10 Women’s Web properties, as measured by comScore Media Metrix. Glam Media allows people to easily browse content on its flagship website, Glam.com, by fashion, beauty, and lifestyle channels and through the Glam Publisher Network of more than 900 magazines, websites, and blogs. Glam Media is backed by blue-chip venture-capital firms leading the new media wave: Accel Partners (Facebook, BrightCove), DAG Ventures (Friendster, Plaxo), Draper Fisher Jurvetson (Skype: eBay, Technorati), Walden Venture Capital, and Information Capital (Tickle/eMode: Monster, NetObjects).

•    Compensation: unpaid internship
•    This is a part-time job.
•    This is an internship job

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

MSNBC + Tinker Partner Up For Obama’s Elkhart Tour

This morning marked President Obama’s return to Elkhart, Indiana,  the site of his first in-office town hall back in February. The central Indiana town has since found itself at the center of the economic recovery debate and Obama arrived in Elkhart today to speak about his stimulus plan and reassure America’s heartland that relief is on the way.

And who was there to provide real-time coverage and live-streaming of the press conference, Q&A and subsequent interview with NBC News’ Chuck Todd? MSNBC and Tinker, of course. MSNBC and Tinker entered their fourth partnership (see Obama’s Town Hall on Healthcare, Michael Jackson’s Memorial Coverage and Sotomayor’s Senate Confirmation Hearings), together providing the most comprehensive coverage of this crucial block on the road to economic recovery.

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The live stream, coupled with the Tinker widget, provided audience members and regular viewers alike with a 360 degree experience of the event. Check out the image below in case you didn’t see the live-streaming on MSNBC.com!

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Are YOU interested in partnering up with Tinker to integrate Twitter into your live coverage, conference event or some other harebrained idea? Give us a shout at support AT tinker.com.

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

The Tinker.com Ducks Have Invaded My Desk …

After a whirlwind trip to Chicago and then NYC to evangelize Tinker.com to advertisers, PR firms and other media companies, I came back to find the Tinker ducks (from the TechCrunch TinkerTrivia game) had invaded my cube! What a great way to return from a long trip away from this amazing SF team.

Ducks of Tinker Unite!

Ducks of Tinker Unite!

After taking in the overwhelming scene in front of me I found one lone duck turned the opposite direction of all the rest. Can you spot her? What do you think the message was here? ;-)

Tinker.com duck beats to own drum

Tinker.com duck beats to own drum

You gotta love Glam! GO GLAM! GO TINKER!

-Dianna
Co-founder, Tinker’s Biggest Fan