March 2012
1 post
SNAP Joins General Assembly Career Fair
At SNAP Interactive, social innovation is at the heart of everything we do.
Earlier this month, SNAP attended the General Assembly Career Fair along with 40 of New York’s top technology companies to meet talented developers, designers, product managers and analysts. Many of the candidates we spoke to were especially interested in the mobile aspect of what we do here at SNAP and were excited about...
November 2011
1 post
Contributing to jQuery
Recently, our Lead Developer, Mike Sherov, contributed to and was mentioned in the release notes of the jQuery 1.7 release. For those unaware, jQuery is a premiere Web technology powering over 49 percent of the 10,000 most visited websites. It is big news for SNAP and for Mike. Here are his thoughts on the subject:
I’ve been doing Web development for years. My humble beginning was at a...
October 2011
3 posts
SNAP attends F8 (Part 2)
SNAP sent eight (eight? EIGHT!) staffers to the wonderful Bay Area to attend F8 in Sept. Here is Part 2 of our takeaways on San Francisco and the F8 conference.
Walking into F8 was an incredible experience. A huge part of this year’s F8 centered around data visualization, and the first room of the conference did NOT skimp in this department. On one screen was a globe showing new connections...
SNAP attends F8 (Part 1)
This year’s F8 introduced a set of features that represent a critical shift in Facebook’s product offering. In our opinion, this is one of the biggest shifts in the history of Facebook, and in modern internet. Let’s review what actually happened.
Facebook now has over 800 million registered users. Those users have been generating interesting content for years. Status...
Hello, World!
Welcome to the SNAP Interactive Developer blog! We’re a premier social app developer in NYC, and we’re committed to making Silicon Alley one of the best tech communities in the world. Let me introduce you to SNAP:
We created one of the largest dating apps on Facebook: AreYouInterested.com®. It’s got approximately 50 million installed users, 7 million MAUs* (on Facebook),...