DOTGO: The World at Your Fingertips

When we heard New York City was hosting the NYC BigApps competition this year, we knew we couldn’t pass up a chance to help make the city more accessible to New Yorkers. Since we’re all about SMS for websites, we thought we would keep things simple, yet useful, and create a DOTGO site for NYC.gov.

To access the site, text “nyc” to DOTGOV (368468) and from there you can navigate to news from the city, information on alternate side parking, garbage and recycling collection, and more. Try it!

We hope you all find this useful, and would greatly appreciate your support in the form of a vote for our submission: VOTE HERE.

You can also access our submission from the simulator.

Thanks!

-Team DOTGO

Getting going! Tune in now for our Social Media Week panel/workshop on CMRL.

Integrating Text Messaging into Websites, Apps, and Other Software

DOTGO Social Media Week Panel at JWT

DOTGO will host a panel entitled “Cross-Mobile Brand Strategy” at this year’s Social Media Week, to be held February 7-11, 2011 in New York City. The DOTGO panel will take place on Friday, February 11 from 12 to 2pm at JWT, Social Media Week’s Business, Media, and Communications Hub.

The panel will be moderated by DOTGO CEO and Co-founder Stefan Gromoll and will focus on how brands are executing on their mobile strategies and what trends appear to be emerging as a result of the heavy focus on the mobile mediaum. Full description:

Cross-Mobile Brand Strategy, Hosted by DOTGO

A discussion on how leading brands are utilizing mobile applications, mobile websites, and text messaging to activate their brand’s regional and global social engagement strategies.

With 91% of the world’s population keeping a mobile phone within arm’s reach, it’s no surprise that having a mobile strategy has become crucial for brands. From feature phones to smart phones, apps to mobile web sites, and with the rise of text messaging as a direct marketing channel, there have never been better ways to reach just about every consumer across the globe. Mobile strategy has become a necessary part of the digital strategies for brands.

Format: 3-4 five minute presentations followed by a panel discussion with brands leading the way in the mobile space, moderated by Stefan Gromoll.

Speakers:

Moderator: Stefan Gromoll - CEO and Co-Founder - DOTGO

Farrah Bostic - VP, Group Planning Director - Digitas

Chi Modu - Brand Strategist - Diverse Insights

Kristin Volk - VP, Human Experience Strategy Director - MediaVest

Registration for the panel is free, and the RSVP page can be found here: http://amiando.com/dotgo

DOTGO New York Tech Meetup Demo feat. Stefan and Michelle

DOTGO Demos at New York Tech Meetup [Video]

A recap of our demo at the New York Tech Meetup.

Taken with picplz at DotGo in Manhattan, NY. via

(Source: mdfsmash)

↵ Reblogged from mdfsmash

Stefan and Michelle presenting at the NYTM last night! Three cheers for live coding on stage!!

[Photo credit: @noneck]

We’re Hiring!

We’re a small but revolutionary venture-backed mobile startup backed by Google’s Eric Schmidt. We’re looking for experienced and creative Software Engineers to get involved on the ground floor of a new company and personally influence how our products evolve. Responsibilities:

Lead software design and development of the DOTGO platform
Contribute creatively to product design decisions
Interact with and support the developer community

Qualifications:

Proven track record successfully developing web applications
Minimum of 4 years experience in software design and development
Experience developing publicly available APIs (REST/XML-RPC/SOAP)
Experience scaling web services
Open to learning new technologies

Desired Skills:

Perl programming
OO design
MySQL/DBI experience
Linux administration
XML parsing and manipulation from Perl (LibXML2, XPath, XSLT, etc.)
Source control (Git)
Experience scaling web services
Familiarity with the mobile industry and platforms a plus

Additional useful skills: HTML/CSS, PHP, Ruby/Ruby on Rails, JQuery, Amazon AWS, Ubuntu, apache, mod_perl, pound, squid, git. Mobile development experience (web, iPhone, Android, SMS, etc.)

DUE TO THE HIGH AMOUNT OF RESUMES WE RECEIVE - ONLY APPLY IF… you are not…. offshore, a company, a contractor, and/or a recruiter, etc!

TO APPLY: Please send resume to Marcy Dakss at m.dakss@dotgo.com

Location: New York City, NY