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Google Doodles a Word Cloud

Jonah — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:12:31 +0000

Nice word cloud to commemorate President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address up on the Google home page today…

Freshman Fund

Jonah — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:15:27 +0000

Hi, this will be updated with more info later, but for now, here’s a link to my newest company Freshman Fund.

Freshman Fund is an online registry for college savings. Parents create accounts so that gifts from friends and family can go directly into their child’s college fund.

Introducing BlogCast

Jonah — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 03:02:55 +0000

Give your readers MORE of what they want, increase your blog’s VALUE, and GET PAID.

More Content

BlogCast is content you care about. 1-step install puts up-to-the-minute links to some of the most popular content on the internet in front of you and your readers.

More Value

Are you a casual blogger? A pro? Either case can benefit from the BlogCast service. BlogCast gives you constantly updating content that’s “tuned” to the current topics in your blog. Your audience’s demand for new information is virtually insatiable, why not provide them with a user-powered tool that delivers fresh, high-quality links to stories and information they care about?

More Money

BlogCast doesn’t just take up space. Contextual advertising delivers unobtrusive, relevant ads to your audience and puts cash in your pocket (no, we don’t know our revenue split yet, but it will be GENEROUS).

So…

What do you think?

Love it?
Hate it?
Meh?

Let us know!

Take our poll and please, please, PLEASE (yes we’re begging, the fate of a web2.0 application is at stake here people!) comment this post with your thoughts!

Comment Spam

Jonah — Wed, 03 May 2006 16:50:33 +0000

Yesterday, one of our customers notified us that he had observed a disquieting trend when browsing the comments of Weblogs whose authors visited Snapshirts. He saw an increase in comment spam on Weblogs that had visited Snapshirts and requested a T-shirt from us. We were naturally alarmed at the thought of our service having a detrimental effect on the Weblogs of our customers, and so we investigated this observation to determine what might be happening and what, if anything, could be done about it.

We determined that there was a flaw in our previous fulfillment methodology which may have produced some of the comment spam seen on the Weblogs of our customers. In the past, we included the Weblog URL on the T-shirt’s order page to ensure customers received the T-shirt that was directly linked to their blog. This inadvertantly made those URLs available on the Internet for persons with malicious intent. We have subsequently updated our fulfillment technology to allow instant T-shirt generation and purchase, and we no longer publish any ancillary information that could identify the Weblog’s URL on the internet.

After reaching this conclusion, we immediately removed all pages from the Internet that were generated using our older methodology.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this has caused any of our customers. Included below are links to some common plug-ins or services you can use to combat comment spam on your site, we hope you find them useful:

WordPress – Spam Karma
Any – LinkSleeve
Any – Aksimet (requires a wordpress.com API key but NOT a wordpress blog)
Any (not free) – Blam!

i got news for you

Jonah — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:25:53 +0000

We’re sponsoring a free t-shirt giveaway at I Got News For You. So if you’d like one of our shirts but don’t feel like peeling a Jackson off your roll, hit up their blog and see what’s doing (hint: it involves writing some not necessarily news).

safari so sorry

Jonah — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 02:50:37 +0000

We’ve had multiple reports that the links we’re sending out don’t work so well in the Safari browser. So if you’re using Safari to read our email or trying to get to your shirt, give Firefox or even (gulp) IE6 a whirl, it should give you much better results, thanks!

word cloud music

Jonah — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 03:15:31 +0000

The official snapshirts mixmaster DJ Waxy Fresh offers you a selection of sonic samplings both broad and deep, from House and Hip-Hop to breakbeat and all mixed-up. Masterful mixes that go down easy and offer perfect counterpoint to the remix you got from us here at snapshirts HQ. Word.

back, scratched

Jonah — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:14:23 +0000

Big shout out to Virginia Postrel’s Dynamist.com for thinking we’re cool and sending us no small boatload of traffic this afternoon! Virginia, we think you’re cool too, and we like your color-choices, can you pick out our outfits for us?

More on RSS/feeds…

Jonah — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 01:00:38 +0000

Right now, our service is most compatible with hosted blog services such as typepad, blogger, livejournal and xanga. We work a little less well with self-supported blogs, which makes sense as they tend to have more variety in their features and implementations (for example, blog posts with dynamic (clickable) “tags” don’t play well with our site). Since my own blog is in the personally-maintained camp (WordPress 1.5), I am interested in ways to get a good result out of snapshirts. What I’ve found is that the feed URL can produce good results, often better than the root URL for the blog. If you are on wordpress you should use the feed link structure, eg. http://example.com/wordpress/feed and you might want to go into your admin panel and set the number of posts on the feed to a big number (like 99), as this will put more words in there for us to read. To do this, head to ‘Options’ on the admin menu bar and then click on the ‘Reading’ tab, there you can change the number of posts in your feed. Hopefully, this will work for you, if you’ve come up with other approaches that work on your site, please post your tips here. Thanks!

Snapshirts examples

Jonah — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:04:10 +0000

One thing we’re lacking right now on the site are examples of the finished product. We’re hoping to put up a photo gallery of higher resolution pics of the t-shirts taken “in the wild”, but for the time being, you can check out snapshirts.spreadshirt.com where we currently have over 275 examples…you can probably find the style and color combination you’re looking for in there, so if you’d like to browse a bit, head on over.