Monthly Archives: May 2008

the brazilian take

one of the coolest aspects of running a community site is the worldwide reach. it’s one thing to get on your computer everyday and occasionally visit sites from say, england, germany… but it’s way cooler when people from around the world are coming to your site:
http://caligraffiti.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/crowdspring/
it’s also pretty sweet when you consider the guy who [...]

kitemare before mother’s day

so, lesson learned on this one…
i ordered a set of wind chimes from bestkites.com for my mom for mother’s day. that was on the 1st of may. they still haven’t arrived. i’ve already been charged for the item and tried to make contact with the owner several times, to no avail.
after doing a little research [...]

stop motion graffiti

this is awesome. http://www.vimeo.com/993998
where’s my camera?!

the crowd has sprung

it’s alive! crowdspring.com
and somehow, the excitement isn’t as high as i would expect. everything is fairly normal back at the ranch. we’re still working on features for the site. the only change we’ve really noticed is we’re now [barely] starting to make money with this thing. =]
looking forward though, it will be great to move [...]

6 guys in a chicago basement

sounds like the beginning to an mtv reality show…
working at a startup is a little different. for one, we don’t have separate offices. we share a common space with our desks out in the open, no cubicles. two, we work in a basement suite with exposed brick walls and a cement floor, stained from years [...]