http://guaka.org/tag/api en http://guaka.org/2008/01/07/working-for-hyves-in-amsterdam <div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><h3 class="field-label">tag: </h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/tag/amsterdam">Amsterdam</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/tag/api">api</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/tag/bewelcome">bewelcome</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3"><a href="/tag/free-software">free software</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-4"><a href="/tag/hyves">Hyves</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-5"><a href="/tag/italy">Italy</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-6"><a href="/tag/opensocial">opensocial</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-7"><a href="/tag/social-networks">social networks</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-8"><a href="/tag/trento">trento</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-9"><a href="/tag/hospitality-exchange">hospitality exchange</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://hyves.nl">Hyves</a> is a Dutch social network based in Amsterdam. I've been a member for a while now and I mainly used it to find people I know from my primary and secondary school. On the 29th of November I noticed that they were looking for people. I sent them a very short message with a link to my CV. Koen, one of the  three founders, responded within 20 minutes. Exactly one week later I was in a plane heading to  Amsterdam to attend the party to celebrate the 5.000.000th member. Most of these members live in the Netherlands; the majority of young people in the Netherlands have a Hyves account and many are actively using it. Officially I will start working for Hyves on the 1st of February. There is a <a href="http://hyves-api.hyves.nl/">Hyves API</a> (currently beta, mostly in Dutch) and will be implementing OpenSocial and some more very exciting technology. I will have to limit the time I spend on other projects but the contract I signed is quite liberal (e.g. compared to <a href="http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/wiki/Dumbass_NDA">this one for CouchSurfing volunteers</a>). On top of that, Hyves actively participates in the development of Gentoo Linux. This weekend there will be a <a href="http://www.couchsurfing.com/meetings.html?mid=6678">party in Trento</a>.  I'm moving next week, I will attend the <a href="I will focus on this during http://bevolunteer.org/wiki/1st_conference">first BeWelcome (un)conference</a> in Antwerpen on the 19th and 20th, and I already found some places to live in Amsterdam.</div></div></div> Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:18:50 +0000 Guaka 199 at http://guaka.org