April 2010
25 posts
Pasquale D'Silva - Animation & Illustration: The... →
I’m not going to lie. I love New York more than anything. So much so, that my return trip is terminated while I hang out here, working out how to make my stay in this wonderful country permanent. I’m working with & for startups around New York right now. Right now I am out a fantastic project…
The Day Series: The Day I (tried to) leave EMC →
In college I tried to start a company three times. Twice I entered local business plan competitions. Once I applied to this new cool thing in Boston called Y-Combinator and got called in to meet a couple nice guys named Trevor and Paul[1]. All three times I came up short, and never got around to…
M. Wunsch: Tumblr API Wishlist →
With the features Twitter announced at Chirp and Facebook’s new “OpenGraph”, there’s a lot of movement happening in the space of Web Services. Here is a list of improvements and/or additions I would like to see to the Tumblr API: Better Authentication It is crazy, CRAZY, that Tumblr has you…
Like-o-matic →
Neat! I made this today. Add a Facebook Like button to any webpage.
Join me TODAY at Shake Shack to celebrate my...
caterpillarcowboy:
So my birthday was really yesterday, but I wanted an opportunity to hang out with all of you awesome people, so I’m going to be at Shake Shack (in Madison Square Park) today from 6-8pm. Come hang out and get burgers / shakes / beer / hugs! Hope to see you there :)
Working on something new
I’m really thrilled to announce some big changes for me professionally: I’m now working full-time on my new project, Forrst. Forrst is an invite-only community for developers and designers that aims to let us share and interact with one another around focused bits of content — code, links, screenshots, and soon, questions. I’ve got a lot in store for Forrst over the next few...
StackExchangeBlog: Stack Exchange 2.0 →
Like the small-town mayor who suddenly finds herself running an entire state, our ambitions for Stack Overflow keep growing. Our original idea of making the Internet a better place to get expert answers to your programming questions suddenly seemed too small. Programming questions? We asked. Why…
I really like this idea.
“Read the fine print before you sign up for an account, and don’t let your...”
– SDS commenting on my post on overdraft fees.
The first problem with this advice is to “read the fine print.” It’s not that reading the fine print is a bad idea—it’s just that nobody does it. We skim over fine print every day. If we didn’t, we’d never do anything other than read fine print. If we...
SimpleGeo Blog: iPhone OS 4, Background Location... →
Thanks to GDGT for the photos of the keynote. At SimpleGeo, we’ve been very excited for what Apple was going to announce today. There has been all kinds of speculation as to what features were going to go into iPhone OS 4, but now the rumors are over and there are some very big changes…
Certainly some exciting stuff ahead.
Into The Forrst: Into The Forrst: The Forrst app... →
Once upon a time, a couple of Forrst users self-organized an informal app contest. It was slated to run for 1 week, after which I was supposed to anoint one of the apps Winnar of the Contest™. Well, it’s run a tad a bunch of weeks longer than that, mainly because I’ve been swamped getting…
“ALL code is ugly. Yours, mine, everyone’s. Code Is Ugly. Just face it. When...”
– gist: 357981 - A better coding convention for lists and object literals in JavaScript (via mwunsch)
Stu Wall's Tumblr Blog: Why MBAs Fail at... →
5 pitfalls for recent grads starting a company
I began working on Postabon, a bootstrapped start-up, after I graduated from Harvard Business School last June. For eight months my co-founders and I slept on lots of couches, worked from coffee shops, and invested in a minimum viable product….
Announcing elegant.ly
caterpillarcowboy:
putorti:
Since I left Mint, and even quite a bit before that, I’ve been asked dozens of times by startup founders to help with their design, or to provide them with designers to help take them to the next level. My answer for years was one guy, Michael Capone, my former creative director at Novaurora. When Justin Maxwell joined Mint, I then knew two genius designers who...
Watchmomentproject:
Forrst founder Kyle Bragger shares his favorite movie moment.
tedr*tumblr: Oh, Tumblr.... →
rafer:
I just noticed for $5 bucks tumblr will promote your blog icon along with 24 others in a 200px box. This is on top of last week’s new revenue scheme of selling pretty blog templates for $9/mo.
Oh, tumblr…
Look tumblr I love ya, and I 110% feel the pressure you’re under to generate revenue and…
Rafer sez: “Worry about revenue later,” said the spider to the fly.
Isn’t Tumblr 2...
“Postling, a New York-based startup co-founded by David Lifson (CEO), Chris...”
– For Postling, Angel Investors Mail in Their Checks
I’ll give you guys the inside story in a bit :)
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Pasquale D'Silva - Animation & Illustration:... →
Ok guys. I need your help a lot.
As you know, I had some silly problems with Visa crap, which meant I couldn’t take my awesome dream full-time jobs in America.
After a bunch of getting over it, I decided I should just suck it up and scoop up the rest of my degree and be awesome. A few…