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  • I wish borrowing money from friends worked like Kickstarter. May I have $5? Sure. Here is $1,000,000.

    I wish borrowing money from friends worked like Kickstarter. May I have $5? Sure. Here is $1,000,000.

  • Om Malik interviews Kickstarter founder Perry Chen

    Om Malik sat down with Perry Chen for a really great and in-depth interview about the success of Kickstarter. I think, we’re able to offer people the ability to overcome that one core roadblock — the funding — and then additionally allow people to build this community and nurture an audience around a project. I…

  • The first two years of Kickstarter

    During Kickstarter’s first two years I’ve watched a few projects and backed only one (which was the largest project to-date I believe). I think I’m going to make a point to visit weekly to fund some interesting projects. Maybe even make it a goal to successfully back 12 projects a year, or something. Awesome idea,…

  • Those who share, receive (or, how to get noticed or get work)

    I touched on this topic in 2017 in How do you get work?. But let me just pull one sentence from that post: The clear way to get work is to share work. The same thing goes for getting “noticed” if that is something you want or need. You have to put things out into…

  • Bokeh: Private, independent, and user-funded photo sharing

    Timothy Smith, on trying to promote his Kickstarter for Bokeh: I hate doing this type of stuff, but I feel like this idea is so important it’d be foolish of me not to try. Even if this Kickstarter ends up being unsuccessful, I won’t be able to live with myself if I didn’t do everything…

  • A new interview with Manton Reece of Micro.blog for 2019

    Last year, around this time, I published an interview with Manton Reece – founder of Micro.blog (M.b) – about how the platform was growing and what the goals for 2018 were. It was such a great interview and it helped me to understand the direction that M.b was going that I knew I had to…

  • One year of Micro.blog

    Manton Reece: A little over a year ago we started rolling out Micro.blog to Kickstarter backers. So much has happened since then — from new Micro.blog platform features to companion apps like Sunlit and Wavelength — that I wanted to highlight a few milestones. See also, my interview with Manton earlier this year. So much has…

  • Colin Walker: \”Should replies be posts?\”

    Colin Walker, in a post on whether or not replies to other posts (or, comments) should be their own posts: There has to be a line, a point where a comment is just that and not a reply. It’s a question of semantics but not everyone’s answer to "what is a comment and where does…

  • Colin Walker: \”Should replies be posts?\”

    Colin Walker, in a post on whether or not replies to other posts (or, comments) should be their own posts: There has to be a line, a point where a comment is just that and not a reply. It’s a question of semantics but not everyone’s answer to "what is a comment and where does…

  • Colin Walker: \”Should replies be posts?\”

    Colin Walker, in a post on whether or not replies to other posts (or, comments) should be their own posts: There has to be a line, a point where a comment is just that and not a reply. It’s a question of semantics but not everyone’s answer to "what is a comment and where does…

  • Colin Walker: \”Should replies be posts?\”

    Colin Walker, in a post on whether or not replies to other posts (or, comments) should be their own posts: There has to be a line, a point where a comment is just that and not a reply. It’s a question of semantics but not everyone’s answer to "what is a comment and where does…

  • Colin Walker: \”Should replies be posts?\”

    Colin Walker, in a post on whether or not replies to other posts (or, comments) should be their own posts: There has to be a line, a point where a comment is just that and not a reply. It’s a question of semantics but not everyone’s answer to "what is a comment and where does…

  • Colin Walker: \”Should replies be posts?\”

    Colin Walker, in a post on whether or not replies to other posts (or, comments) should be their own posts: There has to be a line, a point where a comment is just that and not a reply. It’s a question of semantics but not everyone’s answer to "what is a comment and where does…

  • Colin Walker: \”Should replies be posts?\”

    Colin Walker, in a post on whether or not replies to other posts (or, comments) should be their own posts: There has to be a line, a point where a comment is just that and not a reply. It’s a question of semantics but not everyone’s answer to "what is a comment and where does…

  • Blank by Cotton Bureau

    Cotton Bureau: Size-inclusive, made-in-the-USA, better-fitting, premium t-shirts for women and men. I wore a Cotton Bureau tee on Tuesday of this week (thanks Kyle). It felt great. It looks like these new carefully considered tees will be even better than the high-quality product they already offer. /via Kyle Ruane on Twitter.

  • Upcoming.org is back

    Andy Baio: In September 2003, I opened Upcoming.org to the public. And now, 4,941 days later, four years after Yahoo shut it down and deleted everything, Upcoming.org is back — thanks to you. I’ve been waiting for this since last June. I have the feeling this version will be around a very, very long time.…

  • What I saw this week #33: February 17, 2017

    Oristand – Want to try a standing desk? This is a pretty inexpensive and portable way to try it. Houdiniopoly – A local Houdini Museum is creating a boardgame and kickstarted the idea. They’ve already met their goal. Video: MSFT’s hardware testing center – Cool behind-the-scenes look at one of Microsoft’s facilities. Drones over Dubai…

  • Dreamhost supports Micro.blog

    Jonathan LaCour, SVP, Product & Technology at Dreamhost: We’d like to make it as easy as possible to launch a WordPress-powered microblog on DreamHost that integrates well with Manton’s upcoming Micro.blog service. In order to support that mission, DreamHost is kicking in a $5,000 pledge to the Kickstarter. Nice move Dreamhost.

  • The Micro.blog stretch goal

    Manton Reece has added a thoughtful stretch goal to Micro.blog’s Kickstarter campaign: If the Kickstarter reaches $80,000, I will use some of the money to make my very first part-time hire for Micro.blog: a community manager. The community manager will help set the tone for the service, work on documentation and best practices, and be…

  • Micro.blog’s iPhone app

    Manton Reece recently published an update to Micro.blog’s Kickstarter showing a video demonstration of the iPhone app he’s creating for the service. He mentions a really important point that I think many are missing (as I mentioned just a few moments ago). He says (at 53 seconds into the video): Now, you can have Micro.blog…

  • Independent microblogging

    Manton Reece re: Medium’s recent announcement that they are laying off 1/3rd of their team: The message is clear. The only web site that you can trust to last and have your interests at heart is the web site with your name on it. He’s right of course. He has said it a million times.…

  • Attending the Inventor’s Guild at TekRidge

    Last night in Jessup at TekRidge, I attended the Inventor’s Guild – another meet up orchestrated by the folks at TecBridge – to meet inventors from the area. The turnout was very good (about 25 or so I’d say) and I’m hoping this event happens again. If you follow me on Twitter you’ll know that…

  • Idle Words

    I had no idea that Maciej Cegłowski, operator of Pinboard, had a personal blog chocked full of great writing. Did you? How did I miss this? I’m only now aware of this due to Jeremy Keith’s writing about Maciej’s Kickstarter. He’s looking to travel to Antarctica and write about the experience. At first I thought……

  • Flowhub

    Flowhub is "peer-to-peer full-stack visual programming for your fingers". In other words, you can build applications and services by tapping and dragging and pinching rather than by typing and typing and typing. Pretty cool stuff. The idea of building applications using a workflow-based graph isn’t new. From Bret Victor’s "The Future of Programming" at this…

  • Why you should applaud when people make things

    Have you ever had an idea for a product or service? If you’re like me you’ve probably had a million ideas; thousands were crap, hundreds were so-so, a few were great, but you’ve probably only succeeded at getting a few out into the world over the course of your entire career. Making things is really,…

  • A case for something, anything more simple than WordPress

    There is a growing sentiment that WordPress – though incredibly well supported and ubiquitous – is simply far too complex for some projects and for some customers. Obviously, I think so too. That’s why my company is building Barley. Here are a few other notable people that seem to believe the same thing, that while WordPress…

  • Gary Vaynerchuk’s 19 people you should follow on Twitter list

    My good friend Gary Vaynerchuk chose your’s truly as #4 of 19 people he thinks should be followed on Twitter. He says of me:  his new project is something that I think has the real chance of blowing up in 2014. Keep an eye on him. I think he’s a great follow and someone who’s…

  • gTar – The first guitar that anyone can play

    Speaking of Kickstarter (I’ve mentioned it many times). gTar, a guitar-playing learning tool that uses an iPhone to teach you how to play, is a new project on Kickstarter that seems to be a smash-hit right out of the gate. It hassurpassedits stated goal of raising $100,000 in less than 24 hours. Who knows where…

  • A Geek’s Journal 1976

    Steven Thompson took his journal from 1976 and made it into a blog. It took off. He was offered a publishing deal. But he turned it down and decided to run a Kickstarter campaign instead. I thought it would be a clever idea to do my 1976 high school journal as a blog but I…

  • I backed A Show with Ze Frank

    With only three days left to go and Ze already raising nearly triple what he set out to raise I backed A Show with Ze Frank on Kickstarter. I chose no reward because I feel his show will be reward enough.

  • Marco Arment reviews Coffee Joulies so we don’t have to

    Thank goodness for people that are geeks about different things than I am and are willing to share their findings with the world. That is exactly what Marco Arment is (a geek about different things than I am, willing to share findings) when he reviews Coffee Joulies (which started as a Kickstarter project). When he…

  • An iPod Nano watch was never a good idea

    [ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] But it sure did look cool. I was bent on getting the Tik-tok and iPod Nano to use as a watch since the very first day I came across the Kickstarter project. I didn’t care if it would make sense as a watch – I thought it looked awesome. So, I did…

  • The Oona

    I just backed my second Kickstarter project, The Oona. The Oona is a stand for just about any smartphone and it looks like it’ll be a hit.

  • Help fund the documentary about RAD

    Can you believe it has been 25 years since RAD? I loved that movie as a kid. Now Marc Dewey is trying to make a documentary about RAD. Help him fund it via Kickstarter.

  • I’m getting a TikTok iPod Nano wristband

    [ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] As much as I like Griffin Technologies Slap wristband for the iPod Nano I like the TikTok wristband much better. So I’ve contributed to the project on Kickstarter. Now I guess I need to buy a Nano. /via DaringFireball.