Great interview
September 29th, 2006Josh Peterson at 43things interviews Jason Fried at 37signals. Perhaps judging only by the flattery of numbers in their company names, Josh is a fan of Jason. Well, I’m a fan of both. Great interview.
Josh Peterson at 43things interviews Jason Fried at 37signals. Perhaps judging only by the flattery of numbers in their company names, Josh is a fan of Jason. Well, I’m a fan of both. Great interview.
Well, according to the US patent office the intellectual property was awarded to Balthaser. The Patent Office’s web site says the patent covers “methods, systems and processes for the design and creation of rich-media applications via the Internet.†Geez. Whatever. This is yet another ridiculous patent issued by the US Government who clearly demonstrates that they are not able to figure out if Ajax is a powdered sink cleanser or a technique used in web application development.
ImageKind is seeking a front-end design technologist. We’re looking for someone who is a cross over from graphic design into computer science. You should be passionate about symantically correct HTML, love design, and also be an expert at cross-browser CSS, AJAX, Javascript, ASP or XML. Our office is in Pioneer Square in Seattle and you will be part of a small and dynamic team. If you know C# that puts you at the top of the stack but it isn’t necessary. Email kelly@curiousoffice.com
I was reading over on 37signals blog about HP’s new slimming effect for their new camera.
This is so goofy. Maybe I should make and sell some new Photoshop filters so you can do this with ANY digital camera.
Filter> Distort>Puke&Binge
Filter> Distort>BackShave
Filter> Artistic>De-fugly
Filter> Render>SmoothFat
Filter> Stylize>MakeKateMoss
Filter>Artistic>RemoveTwinkyEffect
Filter> Render>Liposuck
Filter> Distort>FattyRender
We are proud to announce that we’ve hired Kevin Saliba from Expedia to take over day to day operations at ImageKind in the new role of President and Chief Operating Officer. Kevin brings a great deal of relevant experience to the organization. He held a number of different roles at Expedia to include Director of Strategic Initiatives and other roles in Product Planning, and Marketing. He also played a key role in the success of Expedia’s private label & affiliate business. His previous experience includes positions with Magna International, Omron Corporation, and Micrsocan Inc. Kevin holds a B.Sc. in Engineering from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from Cornell University.
Kevin sees a great deal of potential at the cross roads of print-on-demand and user generated content and we’re excited to have him.
I’ve noticed people are selling and promoting their various ImageKind galleries in a pretty funny way. Here are some examples:
This guy has framed our entire site and is trying to build a little business off our entire infrastructure. Funny. Not sure I approve 
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/fur/205622729.html
This person is trying to leverage Craigslist traffic to promote his ImageKind gallery. Interesting. It’s driving 1% of our site traffic.
This person designed a custom site where all the “buy my prints” buttons actually link to his Imagekind account.
This guy is using an imagekind banner in his deviant art account to link to ImageKind so he can sell prints of his works. Clever!
It’s fun to see people start to think of their own ways to promote their ImageKind print business! Maybe we need a new contest…
I haven’t kept up with the latest iteration of the lightbox.js scripts but just found this today. As a method of showing an image on a webpage, it’s getting incredibly smooth.
Techcrunch writes of Kiko selling on eBay. Too funny. I touched on this awhile ago in a post http://blog.curiousoffice.com/?p=59 about this very thing happening. I have no crystal ball but this is what happens when you can start something cool for a few hundred grand. You can take six months to do it and make $100,000 on eBay or work a job for six months. Many young developers, particularly overseas, will start to do this as their planned exit. Just watch!
I saw on TV that returning soldiers from Iraq CANNOT bring water bottles on board the airplanes but they are allowed to bring on their government issued firearms. Yet, I’m barely surprised. What is the world coming to?
Rainbow Series: I've begun work on some light-hearted images I've taken around Seattle which have been treated with the spectrum of the rainbow. I'll be adding to this set over the year.
Photo Paintings: It's fun to take some old photos from my collection and see if I can get them to look more like physical works of art. Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not but the process is quite fun.
Chernobyl Series: I've been working on some image collages with some old Chernobyl photos to try and pull some emotion out of some already spectacular images.
New Years 2007 in Hawaii: We spent New Years at Mauna Kea on the Big Island. Highly recommended to get some sun this time of year.
Through Curious Office, we start or invest in other companies. Among them are the companies below.
Imagekind: I co-founded this company with Adrian Hanauer and was the CEO, designer, builder manager etc etc etc. In other words, the first person. It is today one of the fastest growing online art and photo commerce communities on the Internet.
Curious Office: I founded this investment company and software lab to build companies and invest in other companies.
SEOmoz.org: This resource for webmasters develops content and tools for anyone who has an interest in search engine optimization. It is one of the most popular sites of its kind.
Shelfari: We invested along with Amazon.com and others in this fast growing community for book lovers.
Wishpot: We're working hard to help CEO Max Ciccocosto develop a cutting edge network that helps people manage their personal wish lists, gift giving and more.
FeedDigest: We were the seed investor in this company that helps convert RSS feeds from outside sources into content that is ready to be published on your own websites as HTML. FeedDigest was acquired in 2007.
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