The brains over at Zaaz are putting together a very interesting and insightful event called Perspectives on Social Media. If you have even an inkling of interest in social media, communities, and web technologies, I’d invite you to attend this event. Unfortunately, I’ll be just coming back from Los Angeles during this time.
My good buddy, David Eraker, just released a new version of Mindsite. The visuals and flow have all been updated to look and feel super clean. Here’s a quick synopsis of what they do:
Mindsite offers free access to clinical resources to help you overcome the confusion surrounding mental health diagnoses and treatments.
- Get diagnosed online by taking our surveys developed by Harvard Medical School for the World Health Organization to test for symptoms of most mental health disorders.
- Research signs and symptoms with free access to the DSM-IV, the manual used by medical professionals to diagnose, describe, and categorize mental health disorders.
- Learn from our community by asking questions, or browse original articles and videos posted by people like you.
I highly recommend checking out the site if you’ve got the time.
Roughly a year ago, a few of my Lakeside friends and I decided it’d be fun to get together, get some beers and talk about living the startup life. We’d meet once a month at random bars around Pioneer Square and talk about business, technology, marketing and anything else that came into our heads. Over this period of time, I’ve moved on from Redfin to Conenza; Matt from Judy’s Book to Blist; Eric from Jobster to Real Self.
Over the year, we’ve had people join us that represent other companies, such as Fyreball, Shiftboard, Tamarac, and Mindsite. And, amazingly, most of them are connected by two degrees or less; it’s amazing how small the community really is - especially in Pioneer Square.
So if you are interested in joining the group, feel free to ping us using the Facebook group. Our first official gathering is next month (or later depending on the release schedules 
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Goodness, it’s been a looooong time since I’ve updated my blog. Life has been pretty crazy on my end. Apologies to my 2 faithful readers. A few quick updates from around the Seattle world:
Ha. I wish right. The other day, one of my bud’s, Bahn Lee, forwarded me something interesting he stumbled upon while searching for himself on Facebook. It seems like someone - or something - liked my picture so much that it cropped my head and used it as their profile picture. What’s even more interesting was that his/her/its middle name is Bahn, the same first name as my friend.
I’m thinking it’s a spam bot of some sort creating fake profiles. So, if you see anyone looking like me acting weird, it’s probably me. But if you see someone acting shady, it’s probably one of these profiles.
(see last picture on the list)
In a previous life, I worked as the designer for Redfin. Being the guy in charge of aesthetics, I
had to make sure all of the pixels were aligned properly and consistently. It was my life for almost four years and I took the job very seriously. However, the problem with being a web designer is that it’s so easy for another person to rip off your designs.
Today, my chaps at Redfin referred me to a design jackin’ so hard that it makes Tupac want to cry. It was so shameless, that my fellow colleague, Glenn Kelman, aka G-mail, aka Gangsta Boogie, aka G-Pac, wrote a blog about it.
The best part of the whole thing is stealer wanted to get a refund for the half-assed work he paid for. Here’s an excellent excerpt from the post:
You come to me and you ask me to build you a Ferrari look alike car very cheap ($10.000) .
If I am desperate for the money I will take the job and rent a Ferrari take it for a drive so I will have some idea of how it drives.
In a few months I will give you a car which looks similar to a Ferrari , you can drive it .. it brakes , it has air bags … etc.
Then you come and say to me that it doesn’t perform like one and my replay will be well a Ferrari which you look at costs easy $500.000 so this is what you got for $10.000.
And the full post can be found on this real estate forum.
I hope no one steals this picture of Glenn that I did for him. It’s currently hanging on his door.
Farecast is official sold to Microsoft for $115 million. I first heard of this company at Redfin’s sponsored Techcrunch Seattle party. They had a pretty booth with brochure’s stacked up nicely next to our sporadicly dressed up, sticker-filled walls. Needless to say, it’s nice to see a company that co-sponsored something with Redfin go from small to gobbled in that time. Hugh, pick up one of these with your newfound wealth!Powered by WordPress