buzzd is PROUD to be participating in CMJ this year with some fun and funky events! We have our city-guided hands all over the place. Check out the best two events of CMJ all year and say HEY! to the buzzd krew!

TONIGHT: 10/19/2010 doors open at 7pm

Check out our resident staff mixer DJ SPRUNG!

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TOMORROW: 10/20/10 doors open at 7pm

We’re looking for some killer new talent to join our krew! Check out the job descriptions below!

Director of Account Management

Candidate:

We are seeking an outgoing, entrepreneurial and experienced sales-oriented account manager to acquire and retain customers for our new business-to-business service. This will involve a dogged pursuit of starting & maintaining relationships with local restaurants, bars, retail, gyms and other places of business. The candidates we select will need to demonstrate the ability to push this process along to completion and have a keen knowledge of the social media and SMB’s.

We will rely on this role to scale our customer base across thousands of merchants. We have created a highly differentiated, powerful tool but we will need to rely on partnerships created and managed by this position to distribute our product and win new customers.

Essential skills/qualities:

Strong understanding of each of the location-based services like the ones we aggregate on our website (www.buzzd.com).

Experience engaging, selling, and working with clients and partners

Experience in local advertising

Experience selling a Software As A Service (SAAS)

Organizational skills (you will also be managing up to 10 interns at one time)

Tenacity and initiative

Other key attributes:

Account management strategies
Project management
Client retention practices
Start-up friendly

To apply:

Send a resume to jobs@buzzd.com

UI and Backend Engineers

Buzzd is hiring a skilled web designer / developer. The primary focus will be front-end development using standards compliant, high end CSS, XHTML, JS, jQuery & PHP. You are also able to look at PHP code do small changes if necessary.

Personality Traits

• Skilled at translating complex business goals into working websites, with an impressive portfolio to prove it.
• Strong communication skills, specifically the ability to translate complex ideas into “don’t make me think” terminology.
• A high attention to design detail, with a general interest in usability and user experience. A general interest in design, with a respect for design and it’s importance in driving a user experience online.
• The ability to produce and test a website that functions or degrades gracefully in all major web browsers (IE6-8, Safari 2.0+, Firefox 2-3.5 & Google Chrome).
• Enjoys a challenge, and brings new ideas to the table
• A self-starter, with an interest in learning new technologies and keeping up to date with the latest in web design and web standards.
• You’ve worked with and even written your own jQuery plugins and methods
• Skilled working with a graphics editor like Photoshop or Fireworks
• Experience communicating directly to your non-tech colleagues during the process of a web project.
• A strong desire to constantly improve your process and workflow.

Technical Knowledge
Most Important:

• CSS/XHTML
• JavaScript and jQuery

Secondary:

• PHP Programming
• Fireworks CS3+ & Photoshop CS3+
• Knowledge of Twitter/Facebook APIs - FBML

Bonuses:

• Mobile web design & coding experience (we love cocoa)

• Experience in a project based environment, working with multiple projects at a given time and meeting strict milestones and deadlines

• Experience working with an agile approach to web design and development

• Experience recording screencast videos for training

Notes for freelancers

• We want you to be on skype on set times of the day.

• We won’t give projects unless we worked 6 months together.

Benefits:

• Fun, young and cool office in a great location

• Medical insurance

• A sharp “best of the best” team to work with

How to apply:

Interns!

Want to intern where there’s good times and good people? Come work at buzzd, the award-winning city guide and social network for the mobile phone. buzzd delivers real-time info on bars, clubs, restaurants and events straight to your phone.

We’re seeking bright, entrepreneurial college students to help us grow into the “next big thing”.

We are a small group of creative individuals building a product in the growing mobile industry from the ground up. There is an ample amount to learn working at buzzd, plus we know how to have a good time. You’ll be hooked up with so much free stuff you won’t know what to do with it.

Available Internships:

Community Manager Intern:

We are looking for someone to manage the buzzd community!

Duties include:

• Managing the marketing aspect of our social media
• Maintaining our online community database
• Fielding customer service questions about our products

To apply, please send your resume to jobs@buzzd.com with “Community Management Intern” as the subject.

Operations and Strategy Intern:

We have a lot going on!

Duties include:

• Managing company logistics along side our Chief of Staff
• Planning parties and events on a monthly basis
• Coordinating and fostering brand partnerships
• Helping to manage CEO’s schedule and operations.

To apply, please send your resume to jobs@buzzd.com. Please include “Operations Intern” as the subject!

If you’re the owner/manager of a bar, restaurant, club, retail location or brand and are lost in the social media jungle, the buzzd team will help you create a local response to the folks checking-in and talking about your place on Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Gowalla & other location-based social networks…all for free! To hear about it, simply email info@buzzd.com.

buzzd NYC Summer Sessions continue this week, T-Pain style. We’ve rented the largest sail boat in the country for a party of matching proportions. Join the buzzd krew and hundreds of buzzd members for 2 hours of cruising together around lower Manhattan to the jams of DJ Sprung, DJ Nihal & nigelsounds. Oh by the way, did we mention it’s OPEN BAR. Yep ,that’s right we’re gonna get buzzd on a boat…

Tickets are selling super fast so get them now at buzzd.eventbrite.com.

All Hail Aggregation! As seen in TechCrunch Thursday morning, buzzd v3 is the first city guide to show you what people are saying (”the buzz”) about places in your city on all your favorite social networks like Twitter, Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, BrightKite, Loopt & so many more. Now you have a complete view of what’s going on in your city.

Along with integrating the aggregation technology, major improvements have been made to both apps including:

• Enhancements to the “buzzdmeter,” which now tracks the most popular venues (”buzzing places”) from the aforementioned social networks over the last 6 hours.
• Users can now find their Facebook friends and Twitter followers on buzzd as well as simultaneously post their buzzd ratings to their Facebook wall and/or Twitter feed.
• Users can see what their friends are up to in the new “feed” section
• A complete redesign of the application’s interface
• Bookmarking venues feature for easy access**
• Users can earn real-world rewards like flights, concert tickets and more on “Influential Leaderboard” by broadcasting their ratings of venues to friends**

**iPhone application only

Download the new iPhone app in the iTunes Appstore.

Download the new BlackBerry app here in BlackBerry App World or at on buzzd.com/download.

Please send your thoughts, feedback & questions to us at help@buzzd.com or on Twitter (@buzzd)!

Thanks ComputerWorld! Writer Logan Kugler named buzzd one of the 10 most essential apps (Travel) for BlackBerry.

Make an unfamiliar town come alive with Buzzd, a free app that acts as a kind of Digg for local attractions. Users vote the places and events they go to up or down and post comments, which are integrated with information from Twitter and other social networks to give an idea of what places people are talking about.

Unlike Urbanspoon, Buzzd’s strong point is not restaurants but nightlife in general — bars, clubs, even concerts and other shows. It’s a great tool for finding somewhere to relax after a hard day’s work or sightseeing, and for getting a taste of the local culture.

Download the new buzzd BlackBerry app at http://buzzd.com/download.

During his keynote at the 2010 WES for BlackBerry users conference in Orlando, Fl, Research in Motion’s Mike Kirkup presented buzzd as “a great way to know what’s going on around you in a social context…and join that party.”

A big thank you to MobileBurn writer Todd Haselton. He named buzzd as one his top 10 favorite apps on BlackBerry…

buzzd has a personal tale to it. I was walking around NYC with my girlfriend looking for a wine bar and decided to give Buzzd a whirl. It’s a location-based-service application that looks for restaurants or other things to do in your current area. The app helped us discover one of our favorite wine bars, which we’ve visited time and time again.

To get buzzd for your BlackBerry, visit http://buzzd.com/download/blackberry

On Tuesday, we released a minor update to our Android app to improve compatibility on the hot new Nexus One device. Also, in the update are bug fixes and performance improvements to give you a better buzzd experience on your Android 2.0+ devices. To get the new version visit the Android Market on your phone or go to http://buzzd.com/download/android.

If you’re on an Android 1.5 device, hang tight. We are working on a build that will allow the app to work on such devices as the G1, HTCs, etc. It’s coming very, very soon.

As always, you can send feedback to help@buzzd.com or on Twitter (@buzzd).

Agnes, the Swedish pop-darling  behind the U.S. club hit “Release Me,” is using buzzd to keep her fans posted of all the spots she hits up on her current American tour.  She’ll put her buzzd stamp on all the clubs, venues and restaurants she visits. Make sure you don’t miss out on chances to win free tickets to her shows as well as exclusive Beats By Dre headphones, become friends with her on buzzd and you’ll receive her real-time buzzd ratings.

To become friends with Agnes on buzzd, click here and then click “Add as Friend.”

For a full list of Agnes’ tour dates, click here: http://www.myspace.com/agnescarlsson