I just discovered Co.mments and am excited to talk about it. The obvious comparison is another web app with a similar name, Cocomment, which allows users to track the conversations around comments they leave on other blogs. It received a lot of attention last month from the blogosphere, thanks to a now-famous wining and dining [...]
Several of us from Rubyred attended Mashup Camp last week (in fact, we were the official grapefruit sponsor of the event), and we were fortunate to meet some of the real pioneers of mashdom, all showing off what can be done with an API or two, some regular expressions and a bit of vision. [...]
Back in December I was asked by Liz Gannes of Red Herring who I thought would be the next Web 2.0 company to get bought by a portal. Without much deliberation I replied: “Measure Map. It’s just the right size, right timing and right space for a tidy acquisition.” It also had all the right [...]
Courtesy of Will Glass, here’s the next logo war, pitting Rubyred’s beloved half grapefruit against, well, a whole planet.
Chris Messina, Flock’s chief designer, recently unveiled his new company t-shirt with a special “Flockstar” emblem. It’s based on the favorites button on the Flock browser. Looks nice. But it sure does remind me of Rubyred’s logo:
What do you think: friends or foes?
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I wandered through American Apparel yesterday snapping pictures. It’s kickass retailing all around. Mostly I was struck by how it comes off as an real-world sibling to MySpace, with the amateur snapshot photos of kids in underwear juxtaposed with random images of junk culture. If only MySpace would steal American Apparel’s typographic sensibilities then we’d [...]
Napster had a provocative campaign recently which dared us to “Have everything, own nothing.” Their idea, the same as Yahoo! Music Unlimited, is simple: instead of buying songs for a buck a pop, pay between five and fifteen bucks a month and have unlimited access to millions of songs. With these new [...]