In Bora Bora Snap t-shirt brings some really good luck!

Today marks a unique milestone in UNIX history. The timestamp (the representation of system time) reaches 1234567890, the number of seconds since the epoch (Jan 1, 1970).

Here in California, this occurs at exactly 3:31:30 pm. To celebrate this special occasion, the Snap team will have its traditional Snappy Hour today exactly at 9876543210!

On top of that, it's Friday the 13th. An auspicious day for the superstitious numerologists among us, for sure.

This post was written by Scott Johnson, a senior software engineer at Snap.

Nominations for Mashable’s Open Web Awards have officially opened, and we hope our faithful users, publishers and followers will help Snap Shots be voted the #1 Blog Plugin!

To vote, simply type in your email and hit the "Submit" button in the widget below. Then spread the word and share your vote with your Twitter followers and Facebook friends. Don’t forget to check your inbox for an email asking you to confirm your vote.

Update: The winners were selected and unfortunately Snap was not chosen this year. We will try again next year.

Title: Manager, Product Development


Job Description

THIS POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED

Snap is looking for a hands-on Manager of Product Development to lead its software engineering team in delivering innovative Snap Shots products.
Reporting Relationship: Reports to Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities

1) Make Snap successful.
2) Grow and manage a high performance, experienced software engineering team that delivers new Snap Shots products and features.
3) Create new tools that allow customization and provisioning by Snap’s publishing partners and Snap’s operations team.
4) Develop tools and scripts to speed development of new products
5) Work with senior members of the engineering team to ensure technical design is consistent with Snap’s architecture and is of high quality.
6) Liaison with business development and product management to ensure new publisher and content partner deployments are successful.
7) Plan and schedule execution of product engineering efforts making appropriate trade-offs in time, quality and budget.

Requirements / Qualities

1) Track record of success in dynamic, small group or company environments.
2) High energy with strong work ethic and commitment.
3) Ability to collaborate with others in an ego-less manner to get the right answer.
4) Experience in successfully managing engineers and projects.
5) Strong communication skills, particularly in managing team and communicating technical matters to non-engineer stakeholders.
6) Ability to develop simple tools and scripts using Linux, Apache, Mysql, Perl, PHP, Python, and XML.
7) 5 years experience in software with at least 1.5 years as a technical lead or development manager. Experienced in the product development life cycle requirements gathering, specification, documentation, testing, release, and maintenance. Familiar with CVS and Bugzilla or other mainstream version control and bug tracking packages.
8) BS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering preferred

Company Overview

Snap is one of the largest distributed media networks on the Internet, already reaching more than 19% of the US audience and 35 million unique global users each month in 48 languages. Over 100 times per second, we reveal the content that users want, in the best form possible, and deliver it to them right where they are. Our Snap Shots products are used on over 2,000,000 websites and blogs, who appreciate the improved experience we provide their users along with the additional advertising inventory we create. Our Engage products help major content owners add depth to their own offerings and extend their reach across our network to build awareness, traffic and revenue. Together, they comprise a complete solution that is helping to re-aggregate content and users in an increasingly fragmented Internet. Snap’s business model is based on selling advertising on the Snap Shots products.
Launched in 2006 by Bill Gross, Snap is backed by blue chip Venture Investors including Mayfield Fund and Idealab.

Environment

Snap is a mid-stage start-up. Snap has achieved it market success with a relatively small team (less than 30 employees) of HIGH IMPACT team members. Snap intends to continue to follow this strategy of keeping the organization small in the immediate term but will expand as revenues grow.
The Snap environment is a start-up where employees are personally passionate about the products and building the business and doing what is necessary to achieve our shared goals. It is a meritocracy where great ideas from any team member is celebrated and pursued yet “good ideas are killed as we only have time for the great ones.” We are an “always on” team that values fact based decisions, speed, entrepreneurship and sweating the details.

Company Benefits

• Fun people in a great environment
• Stock options package
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
• Life insurance
• Company holidays and Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401k
• Subsidized lunches, gourmet coffee, free snacks, daily fruit and healthy snacks, and free soft drinks
• Casual dress
• Great working environment

Position Location: Pasadena, CA. Local candidates only, no relocation

INTERESTED CANDIDATES SHOULD SUBMIT THEIR RESUME AND SALARY HISTORY TO MIKE AGOSTINO: mna {at} snap {dot} com

Snap is an equal opportunity employer

Now it’s easier than ever to keep up with your favorite celebrities!

Snap has recently launched a test program with Time Inc’s People.com to deliver a customized People celebrity Snap Shot across Snap’s top entertainment/celebrity partner sites. The specialized People Shot will give users headlines, photos and the latest news on top celebrities from the People.com website.

To see the People Shot in action, check out on celebrity sites such as Yeeeah, BumpShack, Right Celebrity and others.

We were really happy & proud to see yesterday the report from Compete which ranks Snap as one of the fastest growing sites in July 2008. Thanks!

Thank you all for checking out our booth at Twiistup 4, grabbing Snap Beach Balls (too bad the pool was covered) and providing great feedback.

Vivian Lee from JuiceCaster, you are the lucky winner of a Nintendo DS & Guitar Hero bundle. We will contact you to make pickup arrangements. Have a rocking weekend!

See you all again at Twiistup 5.