Ben Moore from WorkSimple, discusses how, after almost 3 years into his funded startup, his company changed direction, branding, and almost everything else. [41 minutes]
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Subdomain_fu and Destroying Authlogic Sessions with link_to_remote
I’ve been fighting with a bug that doesn’t properly sign a person out from a subdomain (using a combination of Authlogic and Subdomain_fu) The sign out link looks like this: < %= link_to_remote "Sign Out", :url => {:controller => ‘person_sessions’, :action => ‘destroy’, :subdomain => false}, :method => :delete -%> While the session was destroyed, …
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Web Fonts – Identifying a New Species
“…the design of typefaces had existed for centuries as an exclusive discipline reserved for specialists, who had access to proprietary tools. Today the personal computer provides the opportunity to create custom type designs with an increased potential for personalization and expression…Our design of custom fonts for Emigre magazine grew out of our need for unique …
Mental Exercise: Who Wins When Twitter Stumbles?
In continuing my short sell of social media, I’ve been imagining Twitter and Facebook as holdings in a hedge fund manager’s portfolio. In my amateur understanding of hedge funds: the goal is to reduce risk and maximize returns by investing in assets that move in the opposite direction. The magic is in finding the complimentary …
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First Crack #124. Open Web Fonts with Ben Weiner
Ben Weiner‘s been doing great work on giving greater visibility for open fonts – and has written a book proposal for web fonts. I called him up to discuss this work and my notion that web fonts are a brant new species of fonts. Links and topics we mention: Open Font Library EEULAA.org SIL Open …
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Open Fonts and Web Fonts with Ben Weiner
In First Crack #124. Open Web Fonts with Ben Weiner, I call up Ben Weiner to discuss Open Font Library and web font licensing.
Shorting Toxic, er, Social Media
Over on the Twitter the other day, I wrote: “Yes, that giant sucking sound you hear is me buying up CDSs against UGC-backed securities. #shorting_social_media” Right now, the similarities between the overheated real estate market of a few years ago and the current chatter around the marketing potential of Twitter and Facebook are uncanny. Turns …
Web Font Technology Mind Map
If you’d like a quick overview of the web font technology space – here’s a mind map I used a the point of conversation for my ‘Ban Helvetica – Or Why Ignoring Web Safe Fonts Makes Your Website Better‘ session at the MinneBar this past weekend (photo credit: Robyn Flach)
First Crack #123. Building CitizenWausau.com with Dino and Andy
CitizenWausau is one of the coolest, homegrown citizen journalism projects I’ve seen since I’ve been looking for them. I called up Dino Corvino and Andy Laub, the editor and technologist respectively, to discuss the project, how it’s grown, and it’s relationship with more established media in a smaller city market.
Building CitizenWausau.com
In First Crack #123 – Building CitizenWausau.com, I call up Dino Corvino and Andy Laub, the editor and technologist respectively, to discuss the project, how it’s grown, and it’s relationship with more established media in a smaller city market.