The thing about running a widget business is that you serve as many web server requests as all your users websites, combined. And if one of your users get’s Dugg or Slashdotted, you get Slashdotted too. After I launched FEEDJIT on Thursday (5 days ago) the traffic started picking up Friday and by Saturday morning […]
August 21, 2007 | Startups | 3 comments
I posted this a few minutes ago on FEEDJIT. Reposting here: Sunday, August 19, 6pm PST: A message to our webmasters: Due to massive demand for FEEDJIT widgets and some extremely high traffic blogs using our service, we’ve had to delay the statistics reported by the map widget and the traffic widget by 1 minute. […]
August 19, 2007 | FEEDJIT | No comments
Bobby from Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster came up with an idea for another FEEDJIT widget after we launched the first one on Thursday. He suggested a map showing where your users are that’s updated in real-time. That was the day before yesterday, so I launched it today. Spaghetti Monster is also our first […]
August 18, 2007 | FEEDJIT | No comments
One of the bloggers using FEEDJIT is The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. If you don’t know what it’s about, read this. I just became a huge fan.
August 16, 2007 | Fun | 1 comment
I just launched FEEDJIT. It took me about 10.5 hours (4pm until 2:30am) from the first time my hand touched the keyboard until I fixed the last bug and went live. I got a question on the Seattle Tech Startup list about how I spent my 10.5 hours. So here’s a brief summary: I drew […]
August 16, 2007 | Startups | 12 comments
I started work on this at 4pm and it’s now 2am. It’s called FEEDJIT and it’s a little experiment. If you like it go ahead and install it. A few minutes after I post this it should be in the sidebar of this blog. Mark.
August 16, 2007 | Code | No comments
I can’t log in to either of my hosted gmail accounts. Anyone else? UPDATE: I contacted gmail support and apparently they occasionally lock accounts due to suspicious activity. I think I had two different hosted gmail accounts open in tabs in the same browser. Very suspicious. Their suggestion: contact them. The response: occasionally we lock […]
August 14, 2007 | Technology | No comments
It took me about an hour to catch one of these. I shot this with probably the worst choice in camera. A Canon Powershot S50 which is awesome for everything but time lapse photography. It has a 15 second maximum exposure and you have to wait 15 seconds after each exposure while the camera processes. […]
August 13, 2007 | Fun | 1 comment
I just posted my first entry on Geojoey in a while. I’m in Colorado this week and spent yesterday fishing an amazing little river in the Rockies about 50 miles west of Colorado Springs called the Dream Stream by the locals. Full entry on Geojoey.com.
August 11, 2007 | Fly Fishing | No comments
I just drove from Seattle to Denver where I’m spending a week. We took the northern route through Montana and I stopped and did a tiny bit of fishing in the Clarke Fork and Yellowstone rivers. I just caught one small rainbow on a dry fly in the clarke fork which wasn’t bad considering it […]
August 7, 2007 | Fun | No comments