Jambool is hiring. We are looking for rock star software engineers who love solving complex problems in record time, and love building robust web services. If you don’t but your friends do, refer them! Refer them to us at contact -at- this domain. For every engineer we hire, we will give the referrer $1500.

What is Jambool up to? We are building a virtual economy platform for social, online apps and games, and a monetization platform for these economies. Learn first hand how economies work, and see them work!

After months of working out of our homes, we’ve finally found some office space across the street from Vikas’s apartment at San Francisco’s Pier 38. We’ve definitely moved up in the world from working off the living room floor to an old abandoned warehouse that we share with a few other startups, including SocialMedia and SuperSecret.

Check out our new digs:

Who are you voting for this November?

Jambool launched a contest between the two candidates. Fans of each can now show their support and compete head to head — who gets more share of support every day, and who will get more votes?

Login today to check it out: Vote 4 Obama, or Vote 4 McCain!

Hemant Bhanoo is our employee #1. We know Hemant from Amazon.com, where Hemant did several super cool stuff on performance monitoring, web services and distributed systems engineering. As his last gig at Amazon, Hemant worked for Wener Vogels, Amazon.com CTO. Hemant has been most recently working on Reporterist — an online news exchange service for freelance journalists and newspapers. He continues to grow Reporterist while he works with us on Jambool. It is superstars like Hemant that give companies like Jambool their competitive edge.

Welcome Hemant!

Graphing Social Patterns conference is next week, and if you haven’t already registered, we highly recommend you do — it brings together the best community of social applications developers. Going by the past conferences, the panels and speaker tracks are invariably excellent.

For readers of this blog, who are planning to come, here is a discount code that gets you 20% discount for conference registration: gspe08fos.

Graphing Social Patterns has become the premier conference in the social applications and social networking space. GSP East is in Washington, D.C., on June 9-11. Vikas is speaking on the Virality and engagement panel.

Do look for us there if you are attending.

Reza along with Ken and Aaron organized the Facebook Dev Garage in Seattle on May 5th. It was a free event, sponsored by Microsoft and Facebook. It was a great event with presentations from several developers based in Seattle who gave demos. There were also talks by Facebook and Jim Scheinman (EIR at Charles River Ventures).

I was away for a couple of weeks and am now back…

One of the things I ran into while in Italy was “Reza Gelati” — here it is…

We’re on a roll with interviews here. Kamla Bhatt, host and producer of her own Internet radio show, interviewed us not too long ago. You can read the interview here.

We were interviewed by a journalist from Time magazine last week. The article is rather truthful in capturing the essence of the overwhelming number of applications on Facebook: Read it here:

Suffering From Facebook Fatigue?

We’re hoping that Send Good Karma does have a positive impact on helping the fatigue. Positive karma helps, doesn’t it?