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We have one or two desks available in our office that we would like to share with like minded, quiet, and responsible people. Our office is located in the beautiful yaletown Vancouver at #111-1118 Homer street on the first floor of Empress Galleria building. There is also a meeting table that we could share and Internet connection is included when you rent a desk with us.

You will fall in love with the brick and beam heritage look and the hard wood floors. If you are a startup or freelancers who would like to have an office space of your own, we wouldn’t mind sharing it with you at a monthly rate which is a very good value.

If you are interested please call: 778 885 0807

and please do call in advance before you drop by.

We have just launched the landing page for a new project of ours called TinyRecipe. It will be a mobile social networking app so people can share and find recipes that are 200 characters or less accompanied by a picture.

Imagine if you could post a recipe like this:

Cut a +baguette into slices and toast slightly +sundriedtomato +goatcheese +cilantro or +basil w/ chilled +whitewine of choice #appetizer #fingerfood

And that was done in 149 characters where + identifies the main ingredients and # hashtags for the folksonomy (categories)

Working on many different projects in the past several years one of the skills that we had to acquire was to learn and come up with quick and short recipes that are healthy and don’t take up much time. When you devote your life into building technologies that are about real time and short bit sharing of information over the net and mobile networks, it will eventually start to affect your eating habits as well.

This idea first came to me after listening to a BBC podcast about people who were already sharing small food recipes over twitter in 140 characters. Being a flickr addict for many years I’ve been aware of the popularity of food recipes and pictures in many flickr groups. Problem is that all the existing available options for sharing small simple recipes are either not specialized and specific enough, such as twitter, facebook, flickr, or they are way too elaborate and aiming towards people who would want to play chefs in their kitchens.

I figured that we need better tools and services for sharing our edible creations. It is one of the many ways that we connect with others and express who we are.

I even tried pitching the idea to a few of our clients but unfortunately fortunately they weren’t interested due to the high development cost. Yes it does cost them quite a bit more to build such services.

So I shared the idea with my business partner Ash (from Peerglobe Technology) and him being a foodie person got quite excited about it. In fact we think we are quite ideal candidates to make this project happen. After all we have devoted over 3500 hours developing social networking infrastructure called the Anahitaâ„¢ Social Networking Engine and have done well over 2500 hours of iphone and ipad app development in our team The PurpleRat Tribe of Companies. With over 6000 hours combined experienced in mobile and social networking technologies and the fact that we were both born hungry, making the TineyRecipe project happen seemed like a no brainer.

Regardless of whether or not this project turns out to become the next best hit in the mobile social networking niche, we still think that it will be a quite fun venture to do. We think sharing food recipes goes back to the caveman era. It is a human way to connect and share the love. Taste buds are the path to other people’s hearts.

This project will also be contributing quite a bit of knowledge and experience to the Anahitaâ„¢ project in areas such as developing saas services, mobile accessibility, scaling up, and developing iPhone and iPad SDKs that will be released under open source licenses to the community. That means many future startups will be able to benefit from the developed knowledge to launch their own world liberation plans.

Stay updated about the TinyRecipe Project

If you want to be the first to be notified about the TinyRecipe service please go to the www.TinyRecipe.com and sign up. You can also follow the project on twitter @tinyrecipeapp and like us on facebook www.facebook.com/tinyrecipe

and if you tell others about this project, we will love you for ever!

You have changed our lives in ways nobody else did. Your memory will be in our hearts and minds and for centuries to come many hackers and entrepreneurs will be inspired by you.

This video has been circulating around on the web and it is a very moving scene of a 29 year old girl, who has been deaf from the birth time, hearing herself for the first time.

This video is especially very moving for me. As a technologist, I always wonder if what I create can and will change one’s life this much!

I’ve always believed that a technology that I develop better leave a major positive impact on people’s lives and this video portrays how much more profound and rewarding the outcome can be.

I think brilliant technologies that don’t get used and make no difference in our lives are nothing but intellectual and artistic expressions. There is absolutely nothing wrong with expressing intellectual and artistic abilities, but I think inventors, creators, and scientists have a responsibility go far beyond that.

Anahitaâ„¢ is the open source social networking software that we have been developing for the past 3 years and we have just passed 10,000 code commits to the Anahita code repository. That will be over 3400 hours of work done by 2 people, myself and Ash Sanieyan from PeerGlobe Technology who is the architect of the Anahita framework following the true Nodes-Graphs-Stories architecture.

Anahita is both a powerful framework for developing custom social applications and a great platform for hosting them.

We often joke that Anahita is RAD, SAASY, and Social pointing out the facts that Anahita is a Rapid Application Development framework which is great for developing Software As A Service social networking business projects.

We are currently working on the Anahita 1.6 and 1.7 codebase which will bring many new possibilities and improvements to the overal design of the software. This also means that the next 4 months are going to be very exciting times for us.

To celebrate the 10k code commits we are currently offering a 35% discount coupon for the Anahita Premium Tribe membership. The coupon is only valid for the next 72 hours, so if you have been waiting for a good saving to join the Anahita premium tribe, now is the time. To read the announcement and get the coupon code go to this blog post on Anahitapolis: Anahita is celebrating 10,000 code commits

New Premium Plans on Anahitapolis

Until now Anahitapolis (home of Anahita project) has been offering only one premium plan which provided complete access to all the Anahitapolis resources. In the mean time some premium members required private consulting with us so we could help them with their social networking related project. During those meetings, we often discuss topics such as Anahita social app development, code reviews, and development of a strategy on how to save time and cost as well as reducing the involved risks.

Anahitapolis is currently offering 3 Premium Plans: Platinum, Gold, and Titanium. The last 2 are bundled with 2 and 12 hours of private consulting hours at discounted rate which makes them great values for premium tribe members who are currently developing a social networking project or service.

You can follow updates regarding the Anahita Social Networking Engine project by following the:

• Anahitapolis Blog
• @anahitapolis twitter
• facebook.com/anahitasocial facebook page