Category Archives: Flock

democamp Victoria

Posted on April 2, 2008 by Lloyd

The first Victoria DemoCamp is tomorrow 5.30pm, Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 @ 834 Johnson St. (Juliet Living Demo Space, a.k.a. the OLD peacock billiards place). DemoCamp is basically a hipster geek term for people coming together to give demonstrates (or … Continue reading →

Zbigniew Braniecki joins Mozilla Corp!

Posted on February 21, 2008 by Lloyd

My friend Zbigniew Braniecki, long time Mozilla participant, has left Flock and is now employed by Mozilla. I was waiting for him to publicly share this news and now he has with “Joining Mozilla!“.
My first project is to help Mozilla … Continue reading →

Also posted in Firefox, Mozilla | Tagged Axel Hecht, Bugzilla, Chris Messina, Clayton Stark, David Ascher, Evangelism, Flock, FOSDEM, Gandalf, Internalization and Localization, Jane Finette, John Lilly, MoCo, Mozilla, Mozilla Europe, My World, Open Projects, Open Source, Pascal Chevrel, Paul Kim, Seth Bindernagel, Sociology, Tristan Nitot, Zbiggy, Zbigniew Braniecki | 2 Comments

When Knowledge Disappears

Posted on December 20, 2007 by Lloyd

The other day, I went to reread an amazing article Eli Goldberg wrote on “Verifying a bug” written when we were both working at Flock. I was saddened to find that http://wiki.flock.com/ has been replaced by a sparse “Flock developer … Continue reading →

Also posted in Software Development | Tagged Eli Goldberg, Flock, information architect, instructional designer, knowledge, knowledge gardner, Software Development, software experience, Vera Horiuchi | 9 Comments

WordPress.com Happiness Engineer For Hire

Posted on September 21, 2007 by Lloyd

Matt linked to our Happiness Engineer job posting:
Our software and services are far from perfect, and when things go wrong people arenâ€™t shy about contacting us asking for help. We consider the support side of the user experience to be … Continue reading →

Also posted in Automattic, Blogging, Collaborating, Consuming, WordPress, WordPress.com | Tagged Automattic Job Posting, blogging support, computer support, distributed team, forum support, open source job, remote support, remote tech support, remote technical support, technical support, wordpress job posting, wordpress.com job posting, Work From Anywhere, Work From Home | 6 Comments

Google thinks I hate them!

Posted on September 4, 2007 by Lloyd

The other day I was trying to figure out a problem I was having with Google’s awesome Gmail, and whether to let Google know about their problem, when I remembered that Google thinks I (and Flock) hate them.
I actually own … Continue reading →

Also posted in Communicating, Community | Tagged Customer Support, feedback, google, google.com, internal, internal forums, jobs, jobs at Google, the goog | 6 Comments

Code Rush!

Posted on August 22, 2007 by Lloyd

I met up with friend, former colleague, and current Flocker Richard Phan to watch the hour documentary Code Rush last night.

Also posted in Firefox, Open Source | Tagged Brendan Eich, Ellen Ullman, Frank Hecker, Jamie Zawinski, Jim Barksdale, Jim Roskind, Marc Andreessen, Michael Toy, Mike Shaver, Mitchell Baker, Scott Collins, Stuart Parmenter, Tara Hernandez, Terry Weissman | 4 Comments

Mercurial No More

Posted on July 17, 2007 by Lloyd

“32 of your friends joined the (FaceBook) group ex-Mercs.”

Also posted in Victoria, Work | Tagged Brij Charan, Bryan Hudson, Chris Campbell, Clayton Stark, Ishika Paul, Jacky Zheng, Joshua McKenty, Justin Louie, Len Kirby, Leon Carl, Marcus Redivo, Mark Lise, Raj Paul, Richard Phan, Rick Tessner, Ryan Tomaselli, Steve Bengston | 6 Comments

Mark Towfiq leaves Flock

Posted on June 13, 2007 by Lloyd

Mark Towfiq, Flock Vice President of Engineering and Product Development, departure was “announced” today after 1.5 years leading Flock browser development.
With any personnel change in a senior role of a small company, you can expect some change in … Continue reading →

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Flock, the Awkward Child of Open Source

Posted on June 5, 2007 by Lloyd

Flock continues to go it alone. My greatest concerns for Flock nine months ago are just as relevant today.

Also posted in Open Source | 13 Comments

More Sublimation, in the Flock Sense of the Term

Posted on March 2, 2007 by Lloyd

This last week has seen two of Flock’s ever so talented developers quit, Jesse Andews and Raj Paul.

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