Kyle Bragger

caterpillarcowboy: Forrst: Where Designers Who Code meet...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:47:35 -0500

Forrst: Where Designers Who Code meet Developers Who Design | Carsonified

Our very own Kyle has a cool new community for hackers and designers who actually build stuff. If you’re someone like that, ask him for an invite (or ask me and I’ll pass it along).

Come join an already awesome group of developers and designers. If you’d like an invite, just ask!

Ted Roden: Introducing Hairball

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:46:26 -0500

Ted Roden: Introducing Hairball:

I frequently want to make web posts of a very nerdy variety (yes, nerdier than the stuff I post already). However, I know that most of my tumblr friends are probably not that interested in that type of thing. So I’ve decided to put it off in its own silo at ted-is-a-nerd.tumblr.com. It will auto…

Nice work Ted!

How do I make this stuff stay hidden for good?

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:40:54 -0500

How do I make this stuff stay hidden for good?

psql: Oh here is an Acorn. It’s for Forrst.

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:28:58 -0500

psql:

Oh here is an Acorn. It’s for Forrst.

fascinated: Live train location map at the Bedford Ave L stop....

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:05:44 -0500

fascinated:

Live train location map at the Bedford Ave L stop. I love this so much!

Yes, when it’s actually turned on!

Creating new markets isn't so easy

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:27:22 -0500

caterpillarcowboy:

A couple of days ago, I had a phone call with a partner of an early stage VC firm whose portfolio is filled with successful startups you’ve heard of. Halfway through our conversation, they told me: “We only invest in companies that believe they can be worth $1 billion dollars. If you think you’d be happy with $50-100 million, you’re not the right company for us. The companies we invest in generate $100,000 per month in revenue within 6-12 months of launch, and $1 million per month in revenue by 1 year after that. How do you plan to do that?”

What?

I was shocked. I can’t think of a single non-ecommerce startup that can boast $100k in monthly revenues within 6-12 months of launch AND were creating a new market. Not Google. Not Facebook. Not Twitter. Not Yahoo. Maybe Apple? Microsoft?

As Steve Blank so eloquently says, when you are creating a new market, you have no idea how long the flat part of the hockey stick really is. That’s because you are creating a new product that people don’t even know they want, because they’ve never seen anything like it before. And you are creating something based on a mountain of assumptions, because you don’t know what people will want once they know they want something.

This is all to say, choose your investors wisely.

(NB — This partner, by the way, has never started their own company or worked at a startup.)

Another excellent read by Dave. Always interesting when you’re dealing with people in your industry who have never really been “in the trenches”.

Into The Forrst: The Forrst app contest!

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:31:21 -0500

Into The Forrst: The Forrst app contest!:

fowkswe:

If you’re already on Forrst, a couple of your fellow Forrst members have organized an unofficial official Forrst App Contest; starting tomorrow (2/24), and running through next Wednesday (3/3), your job is to build the neatest app possible in a week’s time. At the end of the contest, the…

This is neat. You should sign up and make yourself an app.

Listen to him. It starts today.

gary: Wine LIbrary TV turns 4 years old today Today is a big...

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:09:43 -0500

gary:

Wine LIbrary TV turns 4 years old today
Today is a big deal for me, a lot of insanely hard work went into 4 years of this show and I am really proud of what we have accomplished here, I want to thank Erik kastner for being an early partner in crime and Chris Mott, Matt Sitomer, John K, Ian Dorin, Brian Wooley, Kmurph and the many people behind the scenes at WL that help make this show go!

Congrats man.

The neatest new Tumblr blog of all time

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:28:39 -0500

The neatest new Tumblr blog of all time

adobegripes: Dreamweaver: Hey Dreamweaver team, in case you...

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:02:01 -0500

adobegripes:

Dreamweaver: Hey Dreamweaver team, in case you were wondering why you had become completely irrelevant

Thanks Dan

Rososo Lives!

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:52:56 -0500

fowkswe:

rososo:

http://rososo.com

I don’t like that the Radar and Recommended Blogs lists don’t respect being hidden...

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:57:40 -0500

I don’t like that the Radar and Recommended Blogs lists don’t respect being hidden across browser sessions.

Tumblr Staff: Dashboard API: Part 1

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:45:31 -0500

Tumblr Staff: Dashboard API: Part 1:

caterpillarcowboy:

kylewritescode:

tedroden:

Get it while it’s hot!

Dashboard posts are now accessible from the Tumblr API, and there’s a shit-ton more coming to the API over the next few ~~weeks~~ days.

While I’m sure you guys will concoct plenty of things we haven’t even begun to imagine, the things we’re super-excited to see are any …

You heard it here first! Also, can anyone get this to work?

Wow. I’m pleasantly surprised. It’s really happening!

YESSSSS. Open = Good. This makes me very, very happy.

Ah, one thing I forgot — OAuth. I’d really like to see Tumblr move to a 3-legged OAuth system for API authentication and totally disallow plaintext email/password auth. Until then, I can imagine that quite a few devs might be dissuaded from developing against it.

Tumblr Staff: Dashboard API: Part 1

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:34:11 -0500

Tumblr Staff: Dashboard API: Part 1:

tedroden:

Get it while it’s hot!

Dashboard posts are now accessible from the Tumblr API, and there’s a shit-ton more coming to the API over the next few ~~weeks~~ days.

While I’m sure you guys will concoct plenty of things we haven’t even begun to imagine, the things we’re super-excited to see are any …

You heard it here first! Also, can anyone get this to work?

Wow. I’m pleasantly surprised. It’s really happening!

Pitchfork / Tumblr Thing Getting Good

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:03:16 -0500

fowkswe:

LOL

Kid makes pitchfork.tumblr.com

Tumblr gives sub domain to pitchfork.com

Kid cries

Pitchfork eschews blame

Tumblr claims warning given, no harm done

Kid disputes Tumblr’s claim

Forrst, similar social service launches….

<eagerly awaits>

(all links borrowed from HR)

Update: Despite my better judgment, Forrst creator won’t rename service to tumblrrunoff.com.

Pitchfork / Tumblr Thing Getting Good

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:06:57 -0500

fowkswe:

LOL

Kid makes pitchfork.tumblr.com

Tumblr gives sub domain to pitchfork.com

Kid cries

Pitchfork eschews blame

Tumblr claims warning given, no harm done

Kid disputes Tumblr’s claim

Forrst, similar social service launches….

(all links borrowed from HR)

Update: Despite my better judgment, Forrst creator won’t rename service to tumblrrunoff.com.

Forrst - a place for designers and developers to share things with their peers

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:29:00 -0500

Forrst - a place for designers and developers to share things with their peers:

forrst:

Ok, so, Billy convinced me to open Forrst up for a little bit — that means no invite code required, just sign up and start posting. If you’re a designer or developer, I’d love for you to try Forrst out; it’s still very young, but you’ll have a chance to not only be an early user of the service (and get the username you want!), but also be influential in its direction. I’d love for you to try it out: Sign up is right this way.

Tumblr Stole My Domain At The Behest of A Corporation

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:35:46 -0500

dontplayitcool:

bthny:

tumbledore:

I’ve run pitchfork.tumblr.com for almost a year now. I had several posts up and I followed 28 people with the account. All my posts are now gone and my address has been changed to pitchfork1.tumblr.com. Where my blog once stood now stands the official Tumblr for Pitchfork Media Inc. Watch out, Soup, I hear Campbell’s is gunning for you next.

Recently, one of my friends who is subscribed to my pitchfork tumblr was surprised to see a sudden change in the content I was posting. That’s because Tumblr stole my subdomain and gave (sold?) it to Pitchfork Media Inc. Keep in mind that the word “pitchfork” is not a proprietary name, it is a noun dating back to the year 1364, so they had no legal right to the word or the subdomain. It clearly wasn’t a case of impersonation as none of my posts had anything to do with music. If there was some kind of content quality threshold that failed to be met which led to my blog’s demise, then 98% of Tumblr should now be blank. Is it possible there’s a certain amount of time that can pass between posts before Tumblr deletes your blog? If so, they should probably make that information public just in case someone accidentally makes the mistake of going on vacation.

The worst part of all this is that if you subscribe to the RSS feed for the “new” Pitchfork Tumblr (http://pitchfork.tumblr.com/rss), you’ll see the first five posts I made are still there! There’s even a post with a screenshot from my March Madness pool standings with my name and face on it. Sadly, I apparently no longer control this image or this information, nor can I exercise my right to remove it from the Internet. But hey, it’s not like these amateurs haven’t pulled this crap before, they’ll probably just write some new content policy after the fact in order to justify it like last time.

So make sure you back up all your content!

If you think your content shouldn’t be deleted and moved arbitrarily at the whims of corporate latecomers, then you should consider contacting the Tumblr team to ask them to stop disrespecting their loyal users:

Email support@tumblr.com and or call them out on Twitter

#NoBloodForIndieMusic #MemesNotBombs #TumblrPitchforkedMeLikeABaleOfHay

Hope this isn’t true, but doesn’t sound at all implausible.

caterpillarcowboy: (via soupsoup) Wow, that’s very impressive....

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:25:36 -0500

caterpillarcowboy:

(via soupsoup)

Wow, that’s very impressive. And kind of depressing.

Agreed, but for fair comparison businessinsider.com should have been used, not thebusinessinsider.com - gives way different metrics.

amotion: sealabcore: mattschwarz: statlr: Statlr is now...

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:09:33 -0500

amotion:

sealabcore:

mattschwarz:

statlr:

Statlr is now live!

Statlr is a free service that allows you to gather and share stats from your favorite websites with the world!

Unlike other statistic services that focus mainly on gathering stats from one site, Statlr allows you to gather stats from many sites. We currently support Twitter, Vimeo, Last.fm, Live For Fame, and Gowalla.

Another key feature of Statlr is its design. We feel that stats should be easy to understand, so we made it that way! Stats are displayed big and beautifully to keep reading numbers super fun.

So go and create an account today at statlr.com/signup!

And be sure to follow us on Twitter and Tumblr.

Check out what Mike and I have been creating for two weeks!