I'm looking for a Twitter developer or development team, preferably an organization with a track record and some depth. I'd like to hear about the following and this is order of importance.
1. your existing server side development work - need not be Twitter specific, but talk to me about PHP, MySQL, stuff like that. 2. javascript skills necessary for creating a lightweight client 3. Twitter API usage under Windows and/or Mac - for the heavy lifting, doesn't need to be developed for prototype. We're going to own the rights to the source code that comes out of this unless the developer wants to use GPL or BSD style licensing. We won't mind if it gets used elsewhere - we have a set of vertical markets we address and we have no concerns over competition. I have an ideological preference for the GPL and an operational preference for things that can be easily installed and maintained on FreeBSD. Your interface on this project will be a mix of marketing and technical staff. All are somewhat older and are experienced project managers in their particular areas of expertise - there will be no requests requiring negative latency inducers powered by dilithium crystals and no time lines requiring thirty eight hour days. You'll get ER diagrams and thoughts expressed in pseudocode along with English language descriptions of the requirements. I wade armpit deep in hosting facilities and have not the slightest interest in any sort of ASP type operation. I have heard rumors of Microsoft trying to build a server operating system but I see no demonstrated success in this area. Their browser is suitable only for visiting http://getfirefox.com. Is that enough to get you started thinking? Email me and we can talk confidentiality agreements.
