Kelly Smith | Made in Seattle

Kelly Smith of Curious Office on the internet, design and photography.

Month: July, 2007

A case in point for clever packaging

Does the world really need another travel site? Well, why not? If you can provide new and inventive ways to present data and navigate around a million choices then it just might work. Vayama just launched a pretty slick little travel engine. I’m always wondering when people will take other boring (but big) businesses like [...]

Ever need to get your original photos back OFF of Flickr?

I recently lost an original set of photos from a bad hard drive. Fortunately I found a way to pull originals back off flickr without having to click on each image. Tinou Bau wrote a nice little applet that did the trick for me.

Lake Washington boat cruise

Some pics of friends from a recent evening boat cruise in Seattle on July 24, 2007.

Top 25 spamming countries

Project Honey Pot gathers statistics on Internet robots and the spammers who sometimes use them. Here’s the top 25 list of countries with the most spam servers.

Belated thanks to Madrona, Redfin and others

Seattle needs more tech events like the one that was thrown on Capitol Hill a few days ago. The Naked Truth event was a great place to network with fellow entrepreneurs and Glenn Kelman at Redfin and Greg Gottesman at Madrona deserve a big thanks for pulling it together.

Great wine from the Bekka Valley in Lebanon?

Yes. Believe it. One of our favorite Seattle hangouts is a little wine bar called is called Bricco. Embarrassingly, we probably eat there about 2 times per week and sometimes 3. Anyway, I’m not usually one to jump on the popular wine bandwagon of the week so I’m always on the look out for something [...]

Getting ready to drive in Italy…

Tricia and I are going to the Croatian and Italian coast for a few weeks. I guess it was just funny coincidence that I stumbled over this video since I always need to prepare myself for driving in Italy

12 kinds of ads. Good read.

Show the demo, show the problem, show an analogy and so much more. A great read if you’re ever needing to market something. This basic review is as handy for a budget YouTube ad as it is for a multi-million dollar Madison Avenue production.

The cars owned or desired by Facebook users

Car Enthusiast is another Facebook application that lets you share the car you own as well as the one you want most. Guess what cars are most owned and most wanted on Facebook?

No more opening a bazillion tabs in Firefox…

My morning reading ritual had unfortunately consisted of about 30 of my favorite sites launching in 30 separate tabs in Firefox. That made it slow to fire up my browser and it was just not an elegant solution. FINALLY I made the switch to my own custom home page. Any site, every site I ever [...]