Tim said it better than I could ever hope to...
I'm really proud that our team has launched Pipes tonight. It's still raw with plenty of rough edges... and it'd surprise me if more than a few folks will be able to connect-the-dots and see where this leads (... though Tim's explaining will surely help!) Still, it was time and the concept is "ready enough" to unleash IMHO.
My parents just arrived in the Bay Area, and so tonight I'll focus on them. In the upcoming days, I hope I'll find time to share why I'm so excited about Pipes and proud of the team. In the meantime, go smoke a pipe!
(BTW, I recommend that you check out the "Apartments near Something" pipe for an example of a smokin' pipe.)
The team themselves are the best resources for more info:
- Pasha, who deserves all the credit for both the idea and leading the team,
- Edward, whose passion is matched only by his technical skill,
- Jonathan, the man behind what may be the slickest AJAX application on the web,
- Kevin, who joined recently but completely took the design to a new level in a matter of weeks
- and Daniel, without whom this would be just another great idea that never would have seen the light of day.
And the endeavor was a Caterina Fake production, as all the above are members of her TechDev team.
There were many other supporters and contributors, but I'll avoid the slippery slope of invoking them because I'm mostly clueless.
Jeremy explains it too....
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Sunday, February 4, 2007
Recommended: Street Fight
Street Fight is a 2006 Academy Award nominated documentary that chronicles the 2002 mayoral race in Newark, NJ. It's frightening, eye-opening... at times depressing... and at times inspiring. Thank god Cory Booker won the 2006 election and is currently Newark's mayor... Else this would have been impossible to watch.
Monday, January 8, 2007
MyBlogLog and Yahoo light up the blogosphere
Quentin was first and Chad gave the details here: we've acquired MyBlogLog!
I'm totally stoked about this. In describing MyBlogLog, Chad used an "audio analogy." That definitely works, but I prefer the visual one: as powerful as blogging has been, we've been blogging "in the dark." Being a blogger meant the best relationship one's got with her visitors is through her logs - "Oo oo! 18.85.236.12 visited today at 11:04am!!!" And there's the comments of course, but we know only a fraction of visitors to the blog actually leave comments. See [1].
It's like we've been partying in the dark, and MyBlogLog turned on the lights! Now we can all see who's in the room.
Another analogy - the experience of reading blogs has been like attending a movie in the local metroplex. The cool thing about blogging is that it has democratized the process of making a movie. Now instead of just seeing blockbusters from the major studios, anyone can "make a movie." But the experience of consuming it is the same: a couple hundred strangers wander into a theater, the lights go down, and everyone faces the same direction staring at the screen. Protocol dictates little to no interaction with each other... (Isn't it annoying when there's a chatterbox in the next seat over?)
MyBlogLog turns on the lights, and invites people to look at (and dialog) with each other in addition to looking at the screen. Maybe the right analogy is a sports bar. The game is on the big screen providing the content and context. But the fun part is hooting and hollering with your mates, heckling the guys there to support the other team the next table over, etc. It's communal. It's interactive. It's participitory. It's fun.
[I've never been to a sports bar. Maybe I got that part wrong.]
This is a great way to start off 07. By the end of the month, we'll debut something equally interesting and impactful. What a great way to start off 07.
I'm totally stoked about this. In describing MyBlogLog, Chad used an "audio analogy." That definitely works, but I prefer the visual one: as powerful as blogging has been, we've been blogging "in the dark." Being a blogger meant the best relationship one's got with her visitors is through her logs - "Oo oo! 18.85.236.12 visited today at 11:04am!!!" And there's the comments of course, but we know only a fraction of visitors to the blog actually leave comments. See [1].
It's like we've been partying in the dark, and MyBlogLog turned on the lights! Now we can all see who's in the room.
Another analogy - the experience of reading blogs has been like attending a movie in the local metroplex. The cool thing about blogging is that it has democratized the process of making a movie. Now instead of just seeing blockbusters from the major studios, anyone can "make a movie." But the experience of consuming it is the same: a couple hundred strangers wander into a theater, the lights go down, and everyone faces the same direction staring at the screen. Protocol dictates little to no interaction with each other... (Isn't it annoying when there's a chatterbox in the next seat over?)
MyBlogLog turns on the lights, and invites people to look at (and dialog) with each other in addition to looking at the screen. Maybe the right analogy is a sports bar. The game is on the big screen providing the content and context. But the fun part is hooting and hollering with your mates, heckling the guys there to support the other team the next table over, etc. It's communal. It's interactive. It's participitory. It's fun.
[I've never been to a sports bar. Maybe I got that part wrong.]
This is a great way to start off 07. By the end of the month, we'll debut something equally interesting and impactful. What a great way to start off 07.
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