Misc

Stuff that doesn’t quite fit anywhere else.

New mugs & stuff

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May 022007
 

I know, crass commercialism flogging products no one wants.

But if you are that rare person who does want, there’s now stuff for 2007 grads festooned with penguins from A Theory of Fun available in the store.

A video review of AToF

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Apr 232007
 

This is a first for me! GameJew (a frequently hilarious gaming culture video web show — the intro should give you a good idea of what it’s like) has done a video review of the book. Extreme close-ups of cartoons for the win!

Areae’s hiring more…

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Apr 182007
 

Specifically, we want a community manager. You may feel free to speculate on what that means regarding announcements! About the only thing that I would add to the below is to point out that as far as we’re concerned, the community job is one of the most important at the company. It’s our public face to our most important people, actual users. So this is a really important job, if you’re interested; we’re determined to treat community as a core competency. Details on the job:

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Web 2.0 names are hard!

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Apr 172007
 

Here I am walking around the show floor at Web 2.0 Expo, and I guess every possible combination of e, i, you, me, my, ster, and so on must have been taken. I have no idea what these companies all do, but check out these names: Yugma, Yoono, Zoho, Denodo, Venyo, Nexo, Astreya, Dekoh, Egnyte.

I guess ending in o is the new ending-in-r-without-preceding-vowel.

BTW, I give a lecture here tomorrow, all by my lonesome since Ben Cerveny got sick, plus I am on a panel. So I have to go finish my slides now.