Less Talk, More Do

I am a design engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, working with the Theme Team to address the design concerns of millions of WordPress users.

• January 29th, 2008

  Mahalo Share Goes to 11

  One of the latest things I’ve been working on at Mahalo is Mahalo Share. It’s a utility that automatically posts links that you want to share to 11 different services: del.icio.us, Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, your Tumblr blog, Ma.gnolia, Faves, Pownce, Mahalo, StumbleUpon, and/or Google Bookmarks. All of this cross-posting is done behind the scenes using [...]

• January 5th, 2008

  Mahalo Follow 3.0

  We just rolled out Mahalo Follow 3.0, and the big new feature this time around is the ability to cross-post any links you recommend to Mahalo via the Follow toolbar between Twitter, del.icio.us, and Ma.gnolia. Just add your account info (process shown below), and after recommending a link for a Mahalo search term, your link [...]

• September 24th, 2007

  Scoble’s 10 “rules” of Twitter

  Robert Scoble’s 10 rules of Twitter (and how I break every one) reads more like “Let me talk about myself by making up ‘rules’ that I ‘break.’ I’m the bad boy of the Internet.”

• July 10th, 2007

  Twitter: What *are* people doing?

  Twitter exists solely for people to answer the question “What are you doing?”, and its users have been answering that question thousands of times per day since it launched. In an effort to find out what exactly Twitter’s users are doing, I checked a sample of 500,000 tweets to see what the most common “-ing” [...]

• July 7th, 2007

  Don’t pay for Pownce; I’m giving it away for free

  I just read that there are Pownce invites for sale on eBay (also covered here and here). Please don’t pay for something you can get for free from me. Also, please don’t pay for something that you’ll most definitely be disappointed with five minutes after you sign up. In my experience, there’s nothing that you [...]

• June 27th, 2007

  Kevin Rose’s new project: Pownce

  Digg founder Kevin Rose’s “IM competitor” startup that was hyped on Digg two months ago has been introduced, and it appears to be a Twitter clone with support for posting files. It’s named Pownce, and it calls itself “a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends.” It’s invite-only right now (I’m [...]

• May 10th, 2007

  Twits Like Me

  Everybody and their mother has written a Twitter-based app, but I haven’t seen any so far that try and help you find other Twitterers that you’d find interesting, so I made one. It’s called “Twits Like Me” – just enter your Twitter screenname in the search box, and the Twits Like Me search engine will [...]