From their blog:

We have long talked about 'bringing blogging to the masses' and today we have released a new version of fav.or.it which we think moves a quite a few steps towards that goal. We hope that we have firstly simplified the interaction with blogosphere and in turn made it accessible to a whole new audience. And for the more tech aware users we hope we have a raft of features that will also appeal.

Some of the more important things the site can do include conversation tracking, identity management, simple and easy to use searching, integrated commenting and much more. Check out Nick's list for more great features or just make a login and check it out for yourself.

It is the new year and we are looking for talented web developers to join our development team working on fav.or.it. We are preferably looking for PHP 5 developers but will cross-train from Perl/Ruby/Python. We are looking for pure programming skills first and foremost so if your not an uber-geek who can do hex calculations in your head then don't bother applying. The winner gets all the monitors they desire, the best development tools and a great start-up environment.

This a fantastic opportunity to get involved with an exciting project and make a real difference to the landscape of blogosphere.

Essential skills

• Triple 'A' Programming skills in any of the following (PHP, Ruby, Perl)

Desirable skills

• PHP 5 (OO)
• Experience with one of the following PHP Frameworks
• CakePHP
• Zend Framework
• Symphony
• XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML/AJAX, XML
• MySQL relational DB design
• Linux, Apache, MySql administration
• XML-RPC
• Code versioning tools (Subversion, CVS)

Role Involves

• Development, maintenance and support of new functionalities
• Analysis of business and user requirements and production of functional specifications;
• Project implementation from inception through development and support;
• Testing of web functionality;
• Resolving problems on specific platforms.

Location: Reading (UK)

Salary based upon experience

Send CV's + Sample of code to recruitment [at] this domain

As we come near to launching fav.or.it I thought I would share my thoughts on building the project completely on Zend Framework. When we started 7 months ago the framework was on version 0.7 and some may have thought that basing our fledgling startup on a single unknown framework was slightly foolhardy. I will first cover why I made this decision and then outline my thoughts on each of the core modules and how we use them.

Also included in the post are the list of modules that they use including: Zend_Acl, Zend_Auth, Zend_Db, Zend_Feed and the Zend_Filter + Zend_Filter_Input + Zend_Validate combo.