January 2012
6 posts
A "Holy Fucking Shit" Quarter →
parislemon:
Remember back in October when after a rare “miss” by Apple (which was only a miss because analysts are stupid and lazy), the early signs pointed to the potential of a $40 billion quarter? Some thought that was insane given that Apple had never even had a $30 billion quarter before. Well, turns out that projection was a little insane — insanely low.
Try a $46.33 billion quarter.
...
Things first time founders do
@andreasklinger wrote a nice piece on what first time founders do. I think the list is pretty spot on and I can honestly say we’re guilty as charged. :)
They seek too much advice from too many sources with too many conflicting views.
They plan details about sh*t that never sees the light of day.
They spend hours of pitching to VCs that don’t invest into startups in their stage.
...
Summify has been acquired by Twitter! →
Our long-term vision at Summify has always been to connect people with the most relevant news for them, in the most time efficient manner. As hundreds of millions of people worldwide are signing up and consuming Twitter, we realized it’s the best platform to execute our vision at a truly global scale. Since Twitter shared this vision with us, joining the company made perfect sense.
December 2011
4 posts
“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
– Joan Didion
November 2011
5 posts
The Three Stages of Cultivation →
The first is the primitive stage. It is a stage of original ignorance in which a person knows nothing about the art of combat. In a fight, he simply blocks and strikes instinctively without a concern for what is right and wrong. Of course, he may not be so-called scientific, but, nevertheless, being himself, his attacks or defenses are fluid.
The second stage — the stage of sophistication,...
October 2011
4 posts
In many ways, the work of a critic is easy →
In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read.
But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it...
September 2011
1 post
2 tags
July 2011
2 posts
Summify: Team Summify Expands →
summify:
For some of us, nothing beats the atmosphere of energy and learning offered by an early stage start-up. With the recent launch of the iPhone app and many more releases on the way, it’s an exciting time at Summify, so exciting that we almost forgot to introduce ourselves! Although we’re…
Summify: Summify Launches iPhone App →
summify:
July 8, 2011 After receiving mountains of requests for a mobile app, we set off to discover the best way to make your social summaries mobile. Three months later, we have some exciting results to share with you. Summify for iPhone is here!
Our goal was to create an app that…
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
1 post
Summify: New Features: Filters, Dislike, Love... →
summify:
April 2011
2 posts
“The key to making programs fast is to make them do practically nothing. ;-)”
– why GNU grep is fast
March 2011
4 posts
Summify: Less Stories, More Funding! →
summify:
The last few months at Summify have been really groundbreaking and we wanted to share some of the exciting updates with you!
More Funding
We have raised a seed round from a great group of investors and here is the full list is in no particular order:
Accel Partners, represented by …
“At Xerox PARC Alan Kay was known for saying, “A change in perspective is...”
– How to Get to Genius
January 2011
1 post
“The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing...”
– How to Live on 24 Hours a Day | SebastianMarshall.com: Strategy, Philosophy, Self-Discipline, Science. Victory.
December 2010
4 posts
Summify: Configure your Digest, Collapsed Stories... →
summify:
Based on user feedback, we found out that people love the email digests we send! So we decided to take this feature, make it even more awesome, and transform into a standalone product: Summify Digest. But don’t take our word for it, have a look at what’s new…
Configure your Digest
Love Math
Amplify’d from en.wikipedia.org
Implicit heart curve, (x2+y2-1)3-x2y3=0
Parametric plot of the curve Read more at en.wikipedia.org
November 2010
3 posts
“Programming will remain very difficult, because once we have freed ourselves...”
– E.W.Dijkstra Archive: The Humble Programmer (1972)
“The software that wins the most hearts is that which provides the shortest path...”
– Why did jQuery win? - Quora
Summify: Introducing the new Summify! →
summify:
Today we’re happy to announce the new Summify design! You should see significant changes to the user interface, beginning with a completely refreshed story navigation and a more visually pleasing woody style. :-) Here’s a screenshot:
Navigation between stories was one of the biggest…
October 2010
1 post
September 2010
5 posts
Summify: Web UI Designer Needed →
Part-time / Freelancers / Limited Hires welcome
Here at Summify we love great design and we understand it’s essential for the success of a web app. We’re looking for a talented UI designer that can create beautiful and enjoyable user interfaces!
August 2010
3 posts
Summify: Hold on, Summify is back! →
A lot of people have been asking us what have we been up to here in Vancouver in the past couple of months. Well, we’ve been really busy building our new product - a Social News Reader - and we’re finally ready to share it with the world!
As of today we’re starting to send out invites to people…
We just sent out the first batch of private beta invitations for Summify! Wanna get one too?...
Philosophy and Personal Development →
Those who have not taken the time to explore the wonderful world
of philosophy may consider it as having very little practical value
or benefit in the real world.
Nothing could be further from the
truth.
The word philosophy is derived from the Greek words “philo”
meaning love and “sophia” meaning wisdom. Therefore it is the love
of wisdom and the seeking of...
Philosophy and Personal Development →
Those who have not taken the time to explore the wonderful world
of philosophy may consider it as having very little practical value
or benefit in the real world.
Nothing could be further from the
truth.
The word philosophy is derived from the Greek words “philo”
meaning love and “sophia” meaning wisdom. Therefore it is the love
of wisdom and the seeking of...
July 2010
2 posts
WatchBeautiful view from the top of Mount Cheam, BC, Canada
WatchView from Lighthouse Park, West Vancouver
March 2010
2 posts
Summify: Summify in private beta! →
We have great news to share with you: Summify is now officially in private beta, starting today, 23rd March 2010! Woohoo!
After weeks of hard work we finally have something that we can share with more people! It took us a full week of “intimate” beta to detect and squash all the major bugs…
Wohoo! This marks the end of a long, tiresome but really fun sprint. Go ahead, have a look! I...