Pulse News is Hiring!

Posted December 10th, 2010 in Pulse by Greg Bayer

A few months ago I mentioned that I left the government/research world (Sandia Labs) and joined an exciting new startup.   I’d like to share a bit more about my experience so far and announce that we are hiring!

Those who have worked at a large company and then moved to startup can probably relate to my experience.  First, without a doubt, the most motivating and fun part about working at Pulse is seeing the impact of my work. And I don’t mean just having someone say “Good Job” or receiving a strong performance review, I mean seeing thousands of people USE the results of your work and submit feedback about how it benefitted their lives.  At Pulse, this experience is magnified by the fact that we release new product features every two weeks, and not ever quarter, or every year!

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Recently Joined Pulse!

Posted October 10th, 2010 in Pulse by Greg Bayer

Pulse by Alphonso LabsAfter a year and half of big data research for the government and quite a bit of fun with Hadoop, I’ve decided to join some good friends at an early-stage startup called Alphonso Labs.

Pulse is currently the #1 news reader on the iPad, iPhone, Andriod app stores.  I’ll be leading the development of our backend data platform and working with a great team.

As we start to build out Pulse’s backend, I’ll be continuing to experiment with Google App engine.  Stay tuned for more posts in that regard.

Pulse on the iPad

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iAd Development

Posted June 23rd, 2010 in Opportunities by Greg Bayer

With the introduction of the new iAd platform, will undoubtedly come new opportunities.  Lets take a quick look at who might benefit:

  • Application developers: Apple will be paying up to 10x current mobile ad market rates for displaying an iAd!
  • Advertisers: More interactive capabilities than ever before.  With higher prices, will they see a good ROI?
  • Apple: Takes a 40% piece of whatever pie comes to pass.  Projected to be up to 50% of mobile ad market!
  • iAd developer: Scarce resource, at least in the beginning. High demand.  Opportunity foot in mobile/interactive ads door.

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Cade’s Cove

Posted March 1st, 2010 in Projects by Greg Bayer

Social Gaming gone overboard!  Escape to Cade’s Cove on your iPhone…

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ZapText

Posted August 25th, 2009 in Projects by Greg Bayer

iPhone application for texting in constrained environments. 3-tap texting!

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ZenMail

Posted April 2nd, 2009 in Projects by Greg Bayer

Prioritized audio email.

BAM! [Cars crashing].  If they had been using Zenmail to listen to their email a Ferrari could have been saved!

Rather than (illegally) squinting at your tiny blackberry screen, wouldn’t you rather have  your email read to you after it has been prioritized by your ZenMail secretary?

Hands free, eyes free, safe access to email while driving.
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