Six Apart's focus over the past few years has switched from catering to the professional web development and enterprise audience, to the tweens/teens MySpace crowd. After their acquisition of Live Journal in early 2005, you could tell that their focus was shifting. The world of LJ is entirely different than the blogosphere that I know about, here's a good quote from … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2006
Google Hires The #1 Designer In The Industry
My buddy Doug Bowman is headed to Google. Doug — who I believe to be the best designer in our industry — was snatched up by Google to lead all their design efforts across all their products. This position wasn't around before this announcement, it was a special position created just for Doug. Wow. I truly think that both large companies and startups need to put … [Read more...]
9rules Round IV Over In About 9 Hours
We're just past the halfway point in the Round IV Submission Round and I'm proud to say that we've (so far) dramatically passed our expectations as far as the number and quality of weblogs who wish to be part of 9rules. As Paul noted, we were at 1 submission every minute for the first hour, and after 9 hours we were at over 290 sites. Now we're far past that, and will be … [Read more...]
9rules Round IV in 13 Hours
In case you haven't heard, The 9rules Network is opening for submissions starting at 12:00am Eastern, Wednesday May 17th, for a 24-hour block of time. That's about 13 hours from the time I'm posting this entry. What's 9rules you ask? "The 9rules Network is a community of the best weblogs in the world on a variety of topics. We started 9rules to give passionate writers more … [Read more...]
TechCrunch Redesigns, The Emperor Has No Clothes
TechCrunch has redesigned. I debated writing about this, not because I didn't think it was important to talk about, but because I'm very sure that the design did not look like this when Rachel presented it to him. Rachel does very fine work (I've spoken highly of her work on other occasions), her recent work is really hot, but this caught me off-guard because it doesn't hit … [Read more...]
