65,810,415 WordPress sites in the world (at time of writing)
Over 100,000 new WordPress sites are created every day!
Powers 14.7% of Alexa Internet’s “top 1 million” websites
Used in 22% of all new websites
(http://en.wordpress.com/stats/)

At the center of WordPress’s success has been its ease of use, clean styling, and open-source ethos, as outlined in a VERY early version of WordPress.org.
The beauty of WordPress is that it works for corporations (driving the likes of Wired, CNN, and The New York Times), as well as for smaller blogs and businesses.

Similar in a way to Facebook Pages, Google+ Pages are business profiles. Whilst I set up my company page the morning it launched, I really haven’t had much time over the last week to look at improving it.

A few odd things stand out at the start. Firstly, there is no authentication process at this stage, which means anyone could theoretically set up a page for any brand, irrespective of they are actually involved with it or not.

Unlike Facebook – which makes you upload business documentation to confirm your details – and even Google Places – which sends postal mail – Google+ seems to be completely open to potential fraud. For an example, look at all the results for the search on Coca Cola pages.

The second was a negative in my opinion when Facebook first launched their business pages too. Ridiculously long URLs are just so last century, so why insist on handing out horribly long ones for all users, personal or business?

Here’s an example for my business. Instead of having something like https://plus.google.com/bam-creative they end up handing out addresses like https://plus.google.com/107729622872696221067 which, to be frank, isn’t something I’ll ever remember in a million years.

On the plus side (excuse the very intentional pun), I like the Google+ interface, which is a lot cleaner than Facebook. The new Google +1 buttons have started appearing across the web on company websites, and now they have launched a Google+ icon for your website which will soon have more features.

They have some great features rolling out, and according to my unofficial chat with someone involved in the project, have already had over a million user feedbacks submitted since they launched in July.

To see all the differences between Google+ Profiles (people) and Google+ Pages (businesses) see the official list here.

We’ll wait and see where Google+ will head for businesses. However at this stage, they are still way behind Facebook and Twitter for adoption levels. Perhaps this time next year may be a different story.

Job Description
We are a small Canada based international company with a development team in Sofia focused on creation of core technologies and environments for a cutting edge Web 3.0 based global professional social networks and community sites. We are looking for innovative and fast paced developers..
We are seeking: creative talent able to work inside an easy going, loosely structured but highly motivated team of creative developers and owners with crazy ideas and wildly unrealistic time tables. The following positions are available now:

1.     Senior PHP Developer

Requirements:

• Bachelor or Master degree in computer science/informatics or equivalent
• Good command of English language (spoken and written)
• 3+ years experience in commercial software projects
• Experience with OO PHP
• Experience with Zend Framework 1.9+
• Experience with SQL and MySQL 5.1+
• Experience with Web servers (Apache)
• Experience with REST or SOAP
• Experience with Memcache
• Ability and willingness to work in a team
• Good analytical and communication skills
• Willingness to study and advance in the new technologies
• Write scalable and high performance code
• Familiarity with revision control software

Advantages:

• Experience with other PHP MVC frameworks (Symphony 1.3+, CakePHP 1.3.7+, etc);
• Experience with other Java Script frameworks (DOJO, ExtJs, JQuery)
• Experience with PHP template engines (Smarty)
• Experience with PHP ORM frameworks
• Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL configuration and administration in production environment
• Experience with XML and Web services
• Experience with PHPUnit
• Experience with Google Apps
• PHPDoc code comment
• Zend Coding Style
• Zend Naming Conventions
• Code Security

Main Responsibilities:

• Implements project modules/solution components according to the project requirements
• Follow the instructions of and report to his/her Team Leader
• Follows the project/company standards and team working procedures
• Participates in Quality Assurance activities such as design and code reviews, unit and integration testing, etc
• Participates in MySQL structure & query optimization discussions.

Benefits:

• Competative salaries with additional benefits
• Professional and personal life balance
• Opportunities for growth and career development
• Dynamic work environment and young team
• Working for fast growing international company
• Posibility to work from home

2.     Flash Programmer – Multimedia Engineer – Actionscript Developer

What you need:

• 3+ years of Adobe Flash Media Server experience
• 3+ years professional experience in Flash and Flex programming (AS3)
• Technological background in OOP
• Strong experience working on a many-to-many video chat application
• Actionscript Development Experience
• Front End Experience (HTML, XHTML, CSS, Ajax,  JavaScript)
• System and/or application development experience
• Experience with client side pages performance optimizations
• Experience with Adobe CS4+
• Good command of ENGLISH language
• Problem solving skills and ability to meet deadlines

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop new features for our site
• Full Life Cycle Development
• Work with CTO, designers and developers to define new features
• Develop related applications/utilities, widgets, and help build out our platform
• Produce high quality code
• Bring new and fresh ideas to the table

Advantages:

• XHTML, CSS/DOM, JavaScript/Ajax
• Photoshop Image processing skills and art-working
• PHP
• Adobe Media server scripting (JSP, ASP)
• SQL
• Video Editing
• Sound Editing
• Team player, responsible and high-motivated person

Required Skills

• ActionScript (AS2 / AS3)
• Flash
• Flex
• Flash Programmer
• Flash Developer
• Flash Engineer
• Actionscript Programmer
• Actionscript Developer
• Actionscript Engineer
• Web Developer
• Multimedia Engineer
• Multimedia Developer
• Multimedia Programmer
• Interactive Content Developer
• Interactive Content Programmer

Benefits:

• Competitive salaries with additional benefits
• Professional and personal life balance
• Opportunities for growth and career development
• Dynamic work environment and young team
• Working for fast growing international company
• Possibility to work from home

Our privacy policy:

Your resume and information will be kept completely confidential.

Looking forward to receiving your resume through our website and going over the job in more detail with you!