How extremely surprising to see people on these Web 2.0 social networks, who you haven’t seen for ages, literally - haven’t heard anything at all for last 5-6 years (which, being a quarter of my age so far, seems very impressive to me). Found my pre-pre-pre-previous boss, I thought that company is null and void long ago - but looks like it’s not, and they are doing pretty well.

I didn’t include this company into my CV anyway, as being just a Jnr C++ developer doesn’t look good… but damn, all of started with something small, didn’t we? So I might reconsider :)

This is just amazing how much information about the world one can extract from social websites simply analysing purely anonymous data. Hint: most social websites have this or another form of API. Hint 2: most websites don’t complain if you want to extract some tags, categories, location-related data, etc, etc. Hint 3: combining this information can give you excellent coverage.