I joined GoInstant a couple months ago. It’s been a great experience so far. We’ve been signing up beta customers (big and small) primarily in the B2B SaaS space (for sales and support) and e-commerce (for assisted sales), and launching new features. 2012 is going to be an amazing, action-packed year for GoInstant.

And to meet our goals, we need to grow the team. For now that means adding technical people; but in the next six months or so I expect we’ll be rounding out other areas of the business as well (sales, marketing, etc.)

GoInstant has 3 open positions – you can see them here: http://www.goinstant.com/jobs/.

First and foremost, we’re looking for a Senior Web Developer and Senior QA Engineer. Then, we also want to add another Web Developer (mid-level).

These jobs come with good salaries, equity and perks. Joining GoInstant means you genuinely want to tackle hard, complex problems every single day. The tech behind GoInstant is significant. We’re using some of the latest technology out there (node.js, redis, etc.) so you’ll have tons of opportunity to learn as well.

GoInstant is based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It’s not what you might consider a “startup hub” but there’s still some interesting things going on. And companies like Radian6 (from New Brunswick, with a big office in Halifax too) have proven that you can build a big, meaningful and successful business in Eastern Canada. They weren’t the first either (and won’t be the last.) If you don’t live in Halifax, maybe it’s time for an adventure…

Here’s the jobs page once more: http://www.goinstant.com/jobs/. And please share this with others! Thank you.

GoInstant makes it possible to share the web. That means two or more people can browse the web together, in real-time. I like to think of it like a “3rd web browser” that sits between the people who are sharing it.

Jevon MacDonald (co-founder & CEO) published a guest post on Joyent’s blog about the vision behind GoInstant. (I was happy to contribute to this as well.) The basic premise is this: the future of the web is shared.

We’re seeing it already with things like Turntable.fm, Chill, Google+ / Hangouts, etc. You can now watch videos online together, listen to music and more. Facebook’s getting into the game too; when a friend is listening to a song on Facebook (through Spotify), you’ll see that and can listen too.

The part that really makes sense to me is how we can visualize the web in evolutionary layers. First came the Information Web. Then the Commerce Web. Next we had the Broadcast Web, and then the Social Web. Each one came with massive innovation and massive change. Each one built on top of the other, and couldn’t have existed without its predecessors. And each one at the time seemed unlikely and crazy (Buying cars on eBay? Everyone as a publisher?), but now seems obvious and completely natural.

The Shared Web will be the same way. We’re seeing implementations of it, controlled use cases for collaboration (Google docs), entertainment, etc. Eventually, the entire web could be shareable, and sharing web experiences will be as natural as searching multiple times per day on Google, buying shoes, publishing Tumblr posts by the millions, tweeting and chatting. That’s the vision and future of GoInstant.

I hope you’ll take a look at Jevon’s post: The Dawn of the Completely Shared Web.