This bartender at the Consumating/Adaptive Path/Odeo party was something to behold. To order a drink you literally needed to bark it out like a marine commando, and then he’d begin flipping bottles and oscillating wildly like Tom Cruise in Cocktail. Alas, he didn’t always catch the bottles he flung through the air. A classic SxSW [...]
Reminder to self: tie up important project details before going to a big tech conference. As it was, my time in San Diego was full of meaningful conversations and meetings, plus a handful of memorable sessions. But I spent too much time doing intense project work, which had me in the hall with my laptop [...]
Jonathan was interviewed by Dan Fost of the SFChronicle at SXSW.
“Do we want to make money? Absolutely. I want to make big stuff,” said Jonathan Grubb, 26, a co-founder and design director of Ruby Red Labs, a San Francisco Web and mobile product design firm. “But I’m tired of making stuff that’s the most profitable [...]
When a group of us initially discussed the idea of scrAPIs at Mashup Camp it was in the context of turning our scrapers into proper APIs and collaborating in their maintenance. However, Assaf points out that there is another way of defining a scrAPI: the implicit API in the html patterns that contain the [...]
Some people have asked how important it is that scrAPIs be open source. Put simply, a scrAPI is simply a screen scraper with an open API. But because of the nature of maintaining a scrAPI of any complexity, parsing pages that may change with some frequency, it should ideally harness open source-style collaboration by [...]
Let’s be honest with ourselves. It‘s the crappy technology no one cares about that so often changes everything. MP3s, for instance, sound pretty awful compared to the CD tracks they’re ripped from. But as a format MP3 was good enough to blow a big smoking hole in the music industry…once there was an easy [...]