Watch this short promo video for our new site, Moonbase.com.
Moonbase helps you quickly build beautiful, funny, and weird animations inside your browser. Here’s a simple sample. Try hitting the “Clone” button. This will make a copy you can play with.
There’s also a writeup in The Verge.
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Monday morning @Mailbox swag! Thanks @elleluna & @gentry!
Mobile First Or Mobile Worst?
A chat I had the other day with Vibhu Norby, co-founder of Origami Labs, based on his post about pivoting away from the mobile-first mentality.
Back in August, I wrote a post teasing Mailbox, the new app from the team behind Orchestra. Today, they’re ready to reveal a bit more. The video above offers a taste, but I’ll have more thoughts to share later on.
Put simply: this is the most excited I’ve been about an app in a long time. I’ve been testing it out for a few weeks now and it’s already the app I use most often. I say this, of course, as a happy investor, but I shit you not: if you hate email, you’re going to love this app when it comes out in a few weeks. It’s fucking amazing.
Hey everyone! I have an exciting and slightly overwhelming milestone to share with you:
Tumblr has broken into the Top 10 sites in the U.S., and now has a worldwide audience of 170 million people.
This isn’t meant to be a brag – though you should definitely try our new Android and iOS apps if you haven’t yet – but a credit to all of your brilliant creative efforts. You guys have earned an audience bigger than the biggest TV networks, and you continue to make some of the most thought provoking, insightful, inspiring, funny, diverse, and compelling content being created today.
It is truly a privilege to build products for you, and we are humbled every day by all the amazing ways you use them.
Boom.
(via lilly)
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Oh hey. Branch has groups now. Awesome.
Excited for this.
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caro:
All joking aside, Airbnb’s neighborhood guides (now available for a handful of cities) are gorgeously assembled with beautiful photography — and serve a really useful purpose, considering that many Airbnb rentals are in residential neighborhoods that Lonely Planet doesn’t exactly cover. These photos are from the Cobble Hill guide.
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The Tumblr iOS app just went from “great” to “spectacular”.
So fast. So clean. So native.
It is great to see NY Tech startups partner with NYC.gov!
NYC Mayor: today @Airbnb is announcing a new platform for displaced NYers to find free places to stay: https://www.airbnb.com/sandy
Awesome.
(via laughingsquid)
It’s forced us to be very disciplined about who we’re building this for. There are moments where we want everybody in the world using Tumblr. And then there are moments where we have to pull it down and remember that the reason anybody in the world even cares is because there’s a smaller community here that is making this incredible stuff.
(via courtenaybird)
Not Just Star Ratings
Foursquare:
Instead of other sites where every place gets 3.5 stars, we come up with our scores using the same Foursquare magic that powers Explore. We look at signals like tips, likes, dislikes, popularity, loyalty, local expertise, and nearly 3 billion check-ins from over 25 million people worldwide. And, with every check-in and Explore search, our scores will get smarter and better.
A-fucking-men. 1 to 5 stars is and always has been pure shit. 1 star (bad) and 5 stars (great) makes sense. Maybe even 3 stars (okay). But what the hell are 2 and 4 stars? It’s different for everyone. And the majority of people doing the rating are usually only going to do so if they hate or love something. It’s such a better idea to use other, implicit signals.
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