Want to join our team ?

We are looking for one EXPERIENCED WEB APP ENGINEER
and WEB DEVELOPERS to join our development team.

EXPERIENCED WEB APP ENGINEER

Challenges you’ll take on:

• Develop a set of RESTful APIs to integrate paper.li with multiple external services
• Write front-end code in Ruby, HTML/CSS, and Javascript
• Implement new features and optimize existing ones from controller-level to UI
• Continuously tune performance and scalability of the paper.li service
• Go on bug fixing guerrilla missions
• Participate to usability discussions and look for ways to make paper.li better

What you bring to the table:

• Pro-active and eager to make immediate and large contributions
• Demonstrable experience building world-class consumer web apps
• Solid experience in Ruby and Javascript
• Experience with Rails and JQuery. Java is a plus.
• Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance
• Strong command of web standards, CSS-based design, HTML and cross-browser compatibility
• Familiarity with agile programming methodologies
• Fluency in the nginx/Rails/MySQL/*nix stack. Experience with Amazon EC2 a plus…
• Fluency in English (our “corporate” language)

WEB DEVELOPER

Challenges you’ll take on:

• Write front-end code in Ruby, HTML/CSS, and Javascript
• Implement new features and optimize existing ones from controller-level to UI
• Rapidly fix bugs and solve problems
• Pro-actively look for ways to make paper.li better

What you bring to the table:

• Fluency in Javascript/HTML/CSS/Ajax coding skills
• Good programming skills in Ruby, Java a plus
• Strong command of web standards, CSS-based design, cross-browser compatibility
• Good understanding of web technologies (HTTP, Apache) and familiarity with Unix/Linux
• Experience with Amazon EC2 a plus
• Visual-design skills
• Active user of Twitter and other Web 2.0 services

Are you the woman (or man) we are looking for? Do you share our enthusiasm to develop insane social media services? You honestly believe you fit with our requirements (... no spam, we don’t have much time to loose…)? Please contact us: info at smallrivers dot com

paper.li on TechCrunch

Always nice to be featured on TechCrunch ... no doubt about it!
Read the post here

News from the deck

New means, new partners & new features - What a fantastic spring !

New investment & partners: We are pleased to announce the closing of a new round of financing. This roundtable pertinently completes our group of partners and provides us with new and exiting potential collaborations with well-established media businesses. All we need to accelerate our expansion! New investors include: reputed Web 2.0 business angels - Econa, a German group of internet companies - Kima Ventures, a private equity fund founded by Xavier Niel (Iliad/Free Founder and soon co-owner of 'Le Monde') and Jeremie Berrebi (Net2one, Zlio and business angel ...). Along with Venture Incubator AG they represent a combined leverage a young venture can clearly benefit from. Welcome!

Ready for growth: The uptake of paper.li was so immediate and sudden that it caught us by surprise. In the past weeks, a large effort was therefore put behind the development of a robust backend to accommodate the massive influx of new users. This has now been completed. We are currently working on providing generic new functionalities to the service, along with support for further languages. That should enable us to release a beta version in the coming weeks.

New features & refreshed design: Paper.li being fundamentally about socially powered news, we have been approached by several "traditional" media companies that want to integrate the paper.li experience into their own news sites. We thus expect these collaborations to lead to further interesting service enhancements. For now, based on popular demand, we have just launched the possibility to create newspapers based on Twitter lists along with a refreshed look & feel.

Good reading on paper.li!

SmallRivers is nominated as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer Candidate

This we have to share with you... We just learned that SmallRivers has been nominated as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer Candidate for the class of 2011! While still only a « candidate », this is nice news all the same. And maybe even to be a little proud about?

A small reminder if needed: the World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas. (www.weforum.org).

Its Technology Pioneers Community is one of the most widely recognized initiatives of the World Economic Forum. To be selected as a Technology Pioneer, a company must be involved in the development of technology innovation and have the potential for long-term impact on business and society. In addition, it must demonstrate visionary leadership, show the signs of being a long-standing market leader, and its technology must be proven.

You can find out more information about the Programme, the recognition and past recipients of the award by visiting the WEF site : www.weforum.org/techpioneers.

Yes, we do feel a touch of pride... ;-)

NEW : Retweet, Reply, Favorite, Follow, Unfollow ... directly from the papers you read !

Dear paper.li fans, thanks for your feedback during these first days of operation (so energizing ! Keep on doing it...). We just released new features enabling you to interact with the Twitter stream directly from the papers you read. Test it and tell us what you think.

Hope it is useful and responds to what you've asked for...
This is a continuous development process. So, stay tuned ;-)