WEB DEVELOPER job in Provo, UT: Internet/New Media and Technology careers - Yahoo HotJobs

WEB DEVELOPER job in Provo, UT: Internet/New Media and Technology careers - Yahoo HotJobs: "Job ID HJ-0785 Company Name The Generations Network Job Category Internet/New Media; Technology Location Provo, UT Position Type Full-Time, Employee Salary Unspecified Experience 2-5 Years Experience Desired Education Level Bachelor of Science Date Posted November 10, 2007 (Reposted Nov 16)"

Job Description:
MyFamily.com, the leading web site for families to connect and to share their photos and news online is looking to hire an experienced WEB DEVELOPER in our Provo, Utah corporate office.

As an experienced web developer you will help build our next-generation web site where millions of family members connect with each other on a daily basis to share photos, news, recipes and other information. We work in a state-of-the-art .NET 2.0 + AJAX development environment and need a developer with a solid track record of shipping high-quality consumer web sites and services.

About You:
As an experienced web developer with strong client-side skills you have worked on at least one consumer-oriented web site property from inception to delivery; you have a strong grasp of web technologies including the latest CSS, DHTML, AJAX techniques and object-oriented Javascript with JSON; you are totally at home in ASP.NET 2.0 code using C#. Your own web site is a great example of the latest in web technologies. You are passionate about meeting real consumers’ needs through state of the art technology; you enjoy working in a fast-paced, small-office environment where you can share in the excitement of the startup-like spirit; but at the same time, the benefits of a well-funded, well-established and profitable parent company aren’t lost on you. You want to work somewhere where you are empowered to deliver new functionality rapidly to consumers. You like to learn about the latest technologies and constantly dream up new ways to apply them in your work.

Key Responsibilities / Performance Requirements:

• Deliver complex solutions using HTML / JavaScript / CSS / DHTML / C# in ASP.NET 2.0.
• Work effectively with designers, product managers and architects in an agile scrum team.
• Deliver high-quality code, on-time for release at the end of each sprint cycle.

Required Skills:

• BA in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience developing consumer-oriented web sites and services.
• 3+ years experience with DHTML / CSS / JavaScript / ASP.NET.
• Ideally with XML and XSLT experience.
• Team player who can work in a fast-paced organization.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Self starter, willing to get involved and do whatever is needed to get the job done.

The Generations Network

The Generations Network - Press Releases: "PROVO, Utah, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Generations Network, Inc., today announced that Spectrum Equity Investors will lead an investment of $300 million to purchase a majority interest in the company. Spectrum, a private equity firm based in Menlo Park and Boston, has been a shareholder in The Generations Network since 2003. Following the transaction, Vic Parker and Ben Spero from Spectrum will serve on the company's new board of directors, along with Tim Sullivan, President and CEO of The Generations Network. Additional terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition is subject to customary regulatory and closing conditions and is expected to close in 2007."

Ancestry.com Blog

Ancestry.com Blog: "AncestryPress exports profiles, historical documents, photos and other pieces of your Ancestry.com tree directly into the application. AncestryPress takes these pieces and assembles them into automatically generated page layouts with illustrated family tree charts, biographical timelines, family group sheets and more. You can customize each page as much or as little as you’d like by including photos and records, changing backgrounds, using drag-and-drop embellishments, adding text and more."

Digital Scrapbooking

Ancestry.com Rolls Out Digital Scrapbooking Feature: "Provo, Utah-based genealogical Web site Ancestry.com revealed today that it has launched a tool that allows users to create custom family history and recipe books. The new feature, called AncestryPress, gives Ancestry.com users a way to organize, preserve and display their research in a “coffee-table quality” book. Ancestry.com added that AncestryPress can export profiles, historical documents and photographs from a user’s online family tree to a series of pre-formatted pages. Founded in 1997, Ancestry.com is headquartered in Provo, Utah. The company also operates several other family history-oriented Web sites, including MyFamily.com, Rootsweb.com, Genealogy.com and Family Tree Maker."

Ancestry.com Touts Profile Numbers For Genealogy Site: "the firm is facing new online competition from startups such as Los Angeles-based Geni.com, which claims 5 million profiles; Israeli firm MyHeritage.com, and new, New York-based iFamily, which raised a round of venture capital last week. posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2007"

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Find job SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - Family Tree Maker: "MyFamily.com, Inc is the leading online network connecting families with their histories and one another. The company?s tools, content, and community help empower individuals to find the people most import to them and to share their unique family stories. The Family Tree Maker team is looking for a SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - Family Tree Maker with 5 to 10 years experience in the industry building desktop application with web integration using object oriented languages. Additionally, the team is looking for an engineer with printing and charting development experience. Job Description: Family Tree Maker is the #1-selling family tree software on the market and provides users with everything they need to grow family trees from the ground up. As part of the continuing development efforts on this product, the Family Tree Maker team is looking for an individual to focus primarily on the publication of reports and chart. This position will require the candidate to be able to work with the product and design team to define requirements, design the printing sub-system architecture, evaluate and make recommendations for 3rd party software libraries and tools; all while working in an agile team oriented development environment."

Deseret Morning News

Deseret Morning News | 17 new patents granted: "Correlating genealogy records systems and methods. Bennett Cookson Jr., Kendall J. Jefferson, Grant Parkinson, Douglas T. Reid, Daren Thayne, all of Orem; Ken Boyer, Cedar Hills; Jerry Collings, American Fork; James Mark Hamilton, Provo; Michael J. Wolfgramm, Pleasant Grove. Assigned to The Generations Network Inc., Provo. Filed Dec. 29, 2003. Patent No. 7,249,129."
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP1550960.html

Abstract of EP1550960
A method of consolidating genealogy records includes partitioning the records using at least one index file to form one or more partitions, sorting the records in a partition based on a data element in the records, comparing records within a sort range, based on the comparison, identifying same person records, consolidating information in the same person records, receiving a request from a user to view at least a portion of the consolidated information for a particular group of same person records, and sending a file that includes the portion to the user.


2. The method of claim 1, wherein partitioning the records using at least one index file comprises using a surname index to identify records having the same surnames and grouping those records into a surname partition.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising using the surname index to identify records having similar surnames and grouping those records into the surname partition.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein using the surname index to identify records having similar surnames comprises using a phonetic algorithm to identify records having similar surnames.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the phonetic algorithm comprises double metaphone or SOUNDEX.

6. The method of any one of the claims 1 to 5, wherein sorting the records in a partition based on a data element in the records comprises sorting the records based on birth date and/or on a selection from the group consisting of name, death data, death place, and birth place.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein comparing records within a sort range comprises comparing records within a birth date range.

8. The method of any one of the claims 1 to 7, wherein identifying same person records comprises calculating a score that represents the likelihood that a pair of compared records represent the same person.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising comparing records related to pairs of same person records.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein comparing records related to pairs of same person records comprises revising the score based on the comparison of related records.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein identifying same person records comprises comparing the score to a predetermined threshold and rejecting records as "same person" records if the score is below the threshold.

12. The method of any one of the claims 1 to 11, wherein the portion comprises a family tree based on consolidated information from a plurality of records.

13. A system for consolidating genealogy records, comprising:

So Gaia Online

So Gaia Online is here « Free Gaia Online Gold: "It’s called Gaia Online, and as a guy on a giant crane behind us tore down the giant Web 2.0 conference banner in Moscone West, I had a chance to sit down with CEO Craig Sherman— formerly COO with Myfamily.com, and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with Benchmark Capital, a main funder of Gaia— for a furious round of questioning. How did Gaia grow so large so quickly so stealthily?"