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Monty likes one of my pictures

John Montgomery, my old boss from Popfly, gave me some great props on his blog earlier today. God bless the blogger echo chamber: blogging about blogs about me.  One of my friends, and a former teammate, is Aaron Brethorst. For the longest time I ...

Feb 09, 2008
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Popfly in the New York Times

There’s an article on the NYT website today about Popfly: Mr. Montgomery was intrigued by the phenomenon of 13-year-olds who were “tricking out” their MySpace pages with “digital bling.” They didn’t realize it, but by cutting and pasting snippets...

Nov 27, 2007
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A moment to be afraid…

Up is down! White is black! Cats and dogs living in sin! Program Managers doing graphic design work! The horror! My friend Doug, one of our Product Managers on Visual Studio Express, contacted me in a bit of a panic a few weeks ago. It turns out ...

Oct 18, 2007
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Did you hear the news?

Popfly Beta has launched! Anyone can now sign up for our awesome, easy-to-use mashup builder. Just head on over to our website, click the sign in button, and create an account. We've been getting some rave reviews today, and Valleywag is treating ...

Sep 15, 2007
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See you at Remix Boston

It looks like I’ll be flying out to Boston for the Remix Boston event on October 8 and 9. I will, of course, be there to talk with everyone about Popfly. I look forward to seeing everyone out there. Mix 07 was a blast, and I’m sure Remix Boston wi...

Sep 05, 2007
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Popfly, now with more cowbell

It’s another month, which means it’s time for another Popfly update! I have to say, shipping every month or so is a blast. Getting new bits into our users’ hands this often is a fantastic feeling, but it only works if you give us feedback on what ...

Sep 02, 2007
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Popfly mentioned in the New York Times

I noticed on Techmeme yesterday that Popfly received a great writeup in the New York Times as part of a broader article in Circuits about mashups. Here’s a quote from the article: Now mash-ups are poised to hit the mainstream, and to spread well ...

Aug 08, 2007
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Is Popfly the harbinger of Web 3.0?

It seems to be, according to comments recently made by Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt: Web 3.0 will be "applications that are pieced together" - with the characteristics that the apps are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the apps can run on...

Jul 31, 2007
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A chef' perspective on computer science

My boss, John, was recently interviewed by eWeek for an article about Popfly, where it came from, and where it’s going. Here’s one of my favorite quotes from the article: [Part] of the thing about learning to program is at the end you want to be a...

Jul 19, 2007
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Piping hot Popfly, fresh out of the oven!

Today marks our third release of Popfly since we debuted it…three months ago. I am continually impressed by my team’s ability to keep popping releases out like clockwork. Of course, past performance is no guarantee of future results, but we do lov...