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Marketing team brainstorms Facebook app launch (vid)

Jobster’s CEO Jason Goldberg sent me this vid this morning of their marketing team brainstorming the launch of their new Facebook application. I’m curious what your thoughts are on the brainstorming process and the ideas they’re throwing around. Full disclosure: I worked for Jobster and left about 1 year ago. I also sold a previous […]

July 19, 2007 | Randomness, Startups | 1 comment

How to make the perfect cup of coffee

When I arrived in the US of A in 2003 I got into coffee in a big way. It took me a while to get it right. When I moved to Seattle from CA I discovered Peets coffee. They don’t keep any beans in-store for longer than 10 days so it’s incredibly fresh. You’ll notice […]

July 19, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

Shackleton's ad

Someone emailed me this morning and in his email sig he has a derivative of what was supposedly an ad by Ernest Shackleton for his 1908 Nimrod Antarctic expedition: I was intrigued, did a little googling and discovered that the ad seems to be a fake and the first published appearance of the “Men wanted […]

July 17, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

Say…

“You don’t write because you want to say something: you write because you’ve got something to say.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald. Next time I’ll have something to say.

July 16, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

Almost a latte

Since I relaunched my blog on Saturday I’ve had 432 page views. So if I’d been really smart and put AdSense on the blog… At 0.30 CPC with a 2% Click thru rate I’d have earned a grand total of $2.59. Almost the price of a latte. UPDATE: I installed adsense. My goal: to earn […]

July 16, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

Extreme sports conflagration – and ground effect

I just noticed one of my youtube videos has over 20,000 views. I put it together a while ago using windows movie editor and a flash ripper. The soundtrack is Breaking Benjamin, Blow me Away. The tube is at Teahupoo and is one of the biggest ever ridden. The human glider is in Verbier, Switzerland […]

July 15, 2007 | Randomness | No comments

My name is Mark Maunder. I've been blogging since around 2003 when I started on Movable Type and ended up on WordPress which is what I use to publish today. With my wife Kerry, I'm the co-founder of Wordfence which protects over 5 million WordPress sites from hackers and is run by a talented team of 36 people. I'm an instrument rated pilot and I fly a Cessna 206 along with a 1964 Cessna 172 in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado. I'm originally from Cape Town, South Africa but live in the US these days. I code in a bunch of languages and am quite excited about our emerging AI overlords and how they're going to be putting us to work for them.