Foursquare is looking for a Marketing Director. If you got the skills and can work in New York – keep reading:

Foursquare is a leader in mobile-based social networking and local content services. Our mobile applications help users meet up with their friends on-the-go and discover exciting things to do in their communities. We’re a small company delivering big things, and are looking for great people to help define the future of our company and the industry.

Foursquare is based in downtown New York City, and investors include Union Square Ventures and O’Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures.

Job Description

Foursquare is seeking a talented individual to serve as Marketing Director to design and implement a wide range of marketing strategies intended to drive user acquisition. While consumer outreach is the main focus of this role, you will also help develop communication materials for other key constituencies including venues, advertisers and agencies. Your background should demonstrate proven success in creating and delivering high-impact consumer internet marketing programs. The ideal candidate will be comfortable in a fluid start-up environment and will bring an energetic, fun and creative approach to their work.

This job will be based in our headquarters in downtown New York City. We offer a competitive compensation package including equity options for all employees.

Key responsibilities

• Design and own overall foursquare marketing strategy and manage day-to-day implementation of programs
• Manage and hone the viral invite path to facilitate user acquisition through friend invites
• Help redesign website calls-to-action and product marketing to drive new registered users
• Develop company approach towards additional avenues of consumer acquisition and brand building, potentially including agency relationships, SEO and SEM efforts, and mobile display advertising programs
• Build company collateral for venues, advertisers, agencies and API developer community to support sales and business development outreach efforts
• Oversee PR and Event marketing efforts
• Help shape internal data reporting needs to allow tracking, iterating and managing data-driven user acquisition programs
• Help define future staffing needs and potentially take on management responsibilities as organization grows

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5-10 years of relevant experience managing consumer marketing programs in an online or mobile environment and/or ad agency
• An all rounder’ with strong analytic skills, creative ideas, and business savvy
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable in a small, intense and high-growth start-up environment

To apply, please send a resume and a brief email explaining your interest in foursquare. Please put ‘Marketing Director’ and your name in the subject line of your email. Thank you!

Click [here] to apply and GOOD LUCK !

I gave HP 12 years of my life so I am very familiar with what goes on behind the gates in Palo Alto and Cupertino.

Now HP has asked some more of their famous “friends” to talk to us consumers about doing something…amazing.

Check out these first spots with Dr. Dre.

What do you think?

Per the good folks at Apple PR, “…Customers can pre-order online at apple.com at 5:30am Pacific time on Friday, March 12.”

We’ll be watching to see if any issues arise with the expected influx of people constantly refreshing their browsers in the morning.

Per the readme notes included with the update the following items have been improved upon:

• Updated user interface to better sit within the WordPress admin aesthetics. Clean up of moderation, navigation, and support interfaces.
• Improved comment exporting and local backup. Exporting is now down in smaller chunks and addresses execution timeout and server memory issues.
• Faster JavaScript loading. The main comment system JavaScript is now loaded asynchronously and will not block the loading of other widgets and scripts on the page.
• Better handling of closed/disabled comments on pages and posts.
• Disqus now updates the permalink URL of the comment thread when it changes from WordPress. This addresses previous issues with missing Reactions (tweets, etc) and missing comments.
• More consistent handling of comment counts. Comment count script is included the default post loop, but can also be tweaked to be included in the wp_footer.
• Single sign-on with WordPress accounts integrated into plugin (VIP only).
• Fixes and compatibility workarounds with other WordPress plugins.

I, personally use Disqus here on THE Tech Scoop, there are two other main competitors for blog commenting (JS-Kit and Intense Debate). I haven’t used JS-Kit, but am familiar with Intense Debate. Interestingly enough, Intense Debate is part of the Automattic family and has incredibly tight linkages into WordPress, obviously – it appears thought that Disqus is getting very close to providing a similar feature set with this latest release.

Site owners out there – do you use a 3rd party comment system on your blog or do you stick with the included default?

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I’m liking what I see thus far and can’t wait until the private beta is opened to the rest of us.

The service is divided into two offerings. Phonebooth Free which is perfect for small businesses, freelancers and independent professionals and provides all the functionality folks in that space space need:

• A free local phone number
• 200 free minutes per month
• Custom call routing to any phone
• Extensions and voicemail expandability
• Read voicemail in email (meaning you get a transcript)
• Dynamic website widget (very cool)

When your needs expand, you can switch to the Phonebooth OnDemand service that offers a full-featured office phone system with support for HD desk and conference phones. So all the features of Phonebooth Free plus:

• Unlimited local and long distance
• Conference calling
• Detailed call reporting
• and a few other tidbits all for $20 per person, per month

Phonebooth.com is at SXSW right now and making the rounds there with media, analysts and enthusiasts (I will never miss another SXSW again !!)

If you’re in need of a service like this I’d recommend checking them out [here]. I can’t say precisely where this service differs or exceeds in functionality from Google Voice or Ribbit – I’m waiting to be let into the beta – hint, hint… When I do get in I’ll do a product comparison.

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