http://www.contextoptional.com/blog Developers of fine hand-crafted social applications Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:20:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Context Optional has received press coverage for a number of the branded Facebook applications we recently launched, including a couple pieces in Inside Facebook and a piece this week in The Social Times: Inside Facebook: Context Optional Releases New Facebook App-vertisements Inside Facebook: New App-vertisements from Microsoft, Miller, and Absolut The Social Times: ... http://www.contextoptional.com/blog/2008/press-coverage-in-inside-facebook-and-socialtimes/ Take advantage of the speed and flexibility of Rails while building compelling apps for large brands on social network platforms like Facebook and MySpace. Leverage platform APIs and OpenSocial to build compelling branded experiences. Work directly with clients to rapidly iterate on designs and features. This position offers more than ... http://www.contextoptional.com/blog/2008/job-ruby-on-rails-developer-for-social-applications/ Leverage your background in designing and maintaining scalable server infrastructures to host social applications for the world's largest brands. Design and build monitoring and deployment tools, detect and address the need for additional capacity, and provide reliable web and database services for our applications. Context Optional is a rapidly-growing San Francisco-based ... http://www.contextoptional.com/blog/2008/job-deployment-engineer/ Use your ObjC skills to build compelling iPhone/Cocoa Touch apps for large brands. Help us turn our proven architecture for building viral applications on social networks into an iPhone platform. Work directly with clients to design features, build prototypes, and rapidly iterate on launch quality mobile applications. Context Optional is a ... http://www.contextoptional.com/blog/2008/job-objective-c-cocoa-iphone-developer/ Context just recently launched engaging applications for five major brands: Kraft One Minute Mogul: Oscar Mayer has a new line of delicious sandwiches – so good that apparently once you try them you’re hooked!  So Kraft and Ogilvy worked with Context to build an social game on the Facebook platform that ... http://www.contextoptional.com/blog/2008/context-launches-5-new-branded-applications/ Over the weekend the San Francisco Chronicle wrote an article on brands moving onto Facebook - and started the article with reference to the Office Poke application we built for Microsoft: Throw a stapler at a Facebook friend, courtesy of Microsoft Office. Become a fan of Victoria's Secret Pink to discuss ... http://www.contextoptional.com/blog/2008/microsoft-office-poke-featured-in-san-francisco-chronicle/ Context Optional was featured on this week's Marketing Voices Podcast with Jennifer Jones. In the interview Jennifer asks about some of the successful social marketing projects we've done with Microsoft and Electronic Arts. Take a listen! Your browser does not support JavaScript. This media can be viewed at http://www.podtech.net/home/5264/facebook-building-successful-social-media-campaigns-for-their-site http://www.contextoptional.com/blog/2008/context-optional-featured-on-marketing-voices/ Work with the world's premier brands to build their presence on major social networks as head of Context's sales organization. Marketing is changing, and Context needs people who understand how. We're looking for proven ability to sell innovative, social-media focused marketing campaigns to pioneering agencies and brands. Context Optional is ... http://www.contextoptional.com/blog/2008/director-vp-social-marketing-sales-and-business-development/ The Oregonian recently covered Nike's most recent Facebook application Ballers Network, which connects people for pick-up basketball games in their area. The article also mentions Context and some of the Facebook applications and marketing we've done for clients: Microsoft, Samsung, McDonald's and Ford have Facebook applications recently built by a San Francisco-area ... http://www.contextoptional.com/blog/2008/context-receives-mention-in-the-oregonian/ Ogilvy, one of our clients, recently shot this interesting interview with Vinton Cerf, widely called the "Father of the Internet" and now Google's Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, talking about how social media platforms such as OpenSocial can help brands find the right customers for their products. http://www.contextoptional.com/blog/2008/father-of-the-internet-discusses-brands-and-opensocial/