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Yeah | T.I. & Lil Wayne

July 30, 11:11 PM

flavorsdesign: Color transparency for the About and Content sections coming very soon, courtesy of Sean. It’s some next level work.

July 30, 10:14 PM
“Almost every dimension of cognition improves from 30 minutes of aerobic exercise, and creativity is no exception. The type of exercise doesn’t matter, and the boost lasts for at least two hours afterward. However, there’s a catch: this is the case only for the physically fit. For those who rarely exercise, the fatigue from aerobic activity counteracts the short-term benefits.”
July 30, 09:14 PM

caterpillarcowboysoupsoupmijatovic: Representative Anthony Weiner.

July 30, 04:00 PM

International Support, Better Image Options & More

via the Goodsie blog:

The Goodsie development team just rolled a new release of the Goodsie codebase.  I’m happy to report that besides numerous behind the scenes tweaks and enhancements, we have some pretty major new features that we’ve added:

Better Image Support

We really enhanced the support that we have for product images for store owners.  We’d gotten a lot of feedback from people wanting to sell photographs or other items that require really high quality images.  So for starters, we’ve changed our image resizing algorithms to make much better quality images.  Of course the best images will be created when you update the best/highest quality original that you can to us!

But we also decided that often seeing the smaller web-sized images isn’t enough so now inside of any product lightbox and/or detail page where an image is shown, we’ve provided options to see the original quality image.  Shoppers can now see a fullscreen lightbox, use a cool JavaScript based detail zooming tool, or have direct image access:

Non-Flash File Uploader

We made a decision a while back to make our website as HTML5 compatible as possible.  This meant removing any Flash elements from our website.  We did that for fonts a while ago switching to using WebFonts.  But not we just erased the last remnant of flash, our file uploader.  We’ve implemented a JavaScript based file uploader that still gives the enhanced/simple/one-click experience that we want for people uploading files, without the need to use a Flash application to achieve it!

International Support

The #1 support request on GetSatisfaction for us ever since we launched the beta, has been to provide international support.  Our original US-only mindset simply wasn’t going to cut it and was very shortsighted of us.  So we all chipped in and got full international support put in place.  This is evident in two areas in particular.

First of all, simply enough, we now allow for international addressed to be entered by store owners:

Just as important though, we now also have international currency support.  Your Goodsie store can choose to interact in any one of 23 currencies.  This depends upon the payment system(s) that you choose however.  Amazon Payments only supports US Dollars, Google Checkout supports both US Dollars and UK Pounds Sterling.  Paypal however supports the full list of 23 currencies.

Simply use the new ‘Currency’ dropdown in your store settings page and instantly all prices in your store will be displayed as being in that particular currency.  When a shopper goes to check out, the payment service will automatically do currency conversion into that shoppers local currency!

We hope that you really enjoy these features, we are constantly working on adding things and have no end of ideas.  Please keep the feedback coming on GetSatisfaction!

Eli

July 29, 09:02 AM

Anthony Volodkin is Fascinated: I believe in WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks is hands down the most interesting, ambitious, inspiring and intense project I’ve seen on the web in years.

July 29, 02:45 AM

It was such a pleasure to meet Heather in person!

hrrrthrrr:

GPOYW: flavors.me version

I had the pleasure of meeting up with Jonathan, David, John, and Jack— the creators of flavors.me (aka Team HiiDef) last night. What a nice group of guys! They have created some awesome sites, like flavors and goodsie that I just love.

If you haven’t created a flavors site yet, you really should! It’s a super simple and clean way to create a homepage for yourself and aggregate content from pretty much any site you use. And they are rolling out new features all the time!

Reply or photo reply with yours!

July 28, 10:20 PM
“Jonathan Marcus was Vimeo’s first GM and is responsible for helping Jakob Lodwick and I recruit most of the talent that was the original Vimeo team. He taught me critical lessons in organizational scaling and he continues to impress me with the success of his pragmatic approach to…”
July 27, 03:17 PM

This video absolutely blew my mind the first time I saw it and its still my favorite Reggie Watts track.

jakelodwick:

This is an OLD Reggie Watts video — the first one we recorded together — but kind of NEW because the audio was just remastered. Now you can finally hear it without the silly “TURN UP YOUR SPEAKERS” warning.

Even if you’ve seen this one before, I suggest watching it a second time — it’s Reggie at his intimate best.

Credits: Performance by Reggie Watts. Directed by Jake Lodwick. Audio remastered by TJ Lipple.

Watch on Vimeo
Watch on YouTube

July 24, 07:17 PM
“While Facebook needed four and a half years to reach 100 million users, Zynga crossed that mark after just two and a half years.”
July 24, 04:43 PM

About a month ago, the Flavors Directory, which Jack had originally jury rigged by hand, completely stopped working…Way back last November, Demetre Arges, one of our first beta users, declared Flavors “the new WhitePages”; it’s a characterization that has always resonated internally. The difference is, Flavors-powered sites introduce an incredibly rich visual element that is missing offline and elsewhere, but core to the modern web experience.

So less than two week ago, we resolved to re-build the directory from scratch. John took on the herculean task of developing an automated snapshot system to generate high-quality images with support for @font-face fonts; few of us believed it was even technically possible. For bonus points, he added Name and About search, plus a basic, but very helpful tagging system. Sean and Jack stayed up way past their bed times with some final nips and tucks like multi-views! And voila, the new Flavors Directory is finally ready for prime time!

All paid accounts can be included in the Directory. And those that shine will be featured prominently. Everything is optional. We hope it will make finding Flavors sites far easier and more enjoyable. Please excuse any hiccups that you encounter over the next few weeks :)

July 22, 05:50 PM
“A two-year investigation by The Washington Post that discovered what amounts to an alternative geography of the United States, a Top Secret America hidden from public view and lacking in thorough oversight. After nine years of unprecedented spending and growth, the result is that the system put in place to keep the US safe is so massive that its effectiveness is impossible to determine.”
July 20, 12:03 AM

Erase Me | KiD CuDi & Kanye West

July 16, 05:08 PM

annnna: I’m pretty excited to finally be able to blog about this, but my profile along with the amazing Heather aka hrrrthrrr, Paul Hammond, Richard Blakeley among a couple others have been chosen to be the ‘Faces of Flavors’ for Flavors.me (basically the faces of their current ad campaigns)! Totally cool honor.

Check all the ads and Flavors’ introduction here.

July 15, 11:00 PM

a period of consequences: Pricing our small angel round... and hubris vs. humility

caterpillarcowboy:

It’s a HUGE mistake to raise $100k. Turn around, go back, and raise at least $500k. Trust me — I was there. We bootstrapped for 15 months and thought a couple hundred grand was going to last forever. LIES.

July 13, 06:46 PM

via Jack Zerby Dynamic maps using the new Google Maps API coming soon to Flavors.me

July 12, 11:21 PM

Paris Morton Music (Lost Verse) | Drake

July 12, 11:09 PM

New Goodsie homepage!

July 12, 04:34 PM

GPOYS: Team HiiDef with Steve Nash, one of the best point guards ever, in New York at the Smyth Hotel. My current wardrobe is limited to HiiDef branded t-shirts only because I am always representing.

July 11, 06:43 PM

The Train Part Pt. 2 (Sir Lucious Left Foot Saves the Day) | Big Boi

July 10, 08:54 PM

Photos for sale! Limited time!

The first Goodsie-powered store is open for business!

ryanjay:

I have put up a few photos for sale. They are 8x12 printed on Matte paper.  All photos will be signed, dated and numbered!  I will only be selling them for a limited time.  So get on it!  Reblog to help a brother out! 

July 10, 08:24 PM

Fo Yo Sorrows | Big Boi

July 07, 07:46 PM

A Sneak Peek of HiiDef’s Newest Project, Dashboard.me. Coming Soon!

Wouldn’t it be helpful to have a holistic, real-time view of your Company’s key business metrics that looks just as stunning on an iPhone as it does on a 60’ plasma?

July 06, 04:16 PM

Calculated Risk: Duration of Unemployment June 2010 Ouch. This is one severe, systematic, structural rift.

July 05, 03:56 PM

Cinderella Man | Eminem

July 03, 07:10 PM

flavorsdesignRob is working on some new layouts in the HiiDef design lab. The sentence structure is a web classic that we have long fancied. Layering in the service data will add another visual dimension and really bring the sentence to life. Best of all, its likely to use our yet-to-be-released lightweight (text) posting functionality. Stay tuned!

July 01, 11:27 PM

Up All Night | Drake

June 29, 07:10 PM

The Fire (Remix) | The Roots, B.o.B. & John Legend

June 29, 04:12 AM
“Peter and Max assembled an unusual critical mass of entrepreneurial talent, primarily due to their ability to recognize young people with extraordinary ability (the median age of *execs* on the S1 filing was 30). But the poor economy allowed us to close an abnormal number of offers, as virtually nobody other than eBay and (in part) Google was hiring in 2000-02.”
June 29, 03:53 AM
“Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and LeBron James met over the weekend in Miami to seriously discuss their impending free agency and the possibility of all playing together for the Heat. One source labeled Miami as the new frontrunner to land James in a package deal with Bosh and a re-signed Wade but also cautioned that James was “non-committal”.”
June 29, 03:01 AM
“Groupon confirmed that the majority of the deals are not real, save for one running in São Paulo — deals from the site’s 30+ other locations are for venues that don’t exist. Rob Solomon explains that Groupon’s standard practice when it expands to a new market is to show users examples of the kind of deals they could get once the site goes live in their city. All of the fake deals on ClubeUrbano, he says, are meant to serve this purpose, but he concedes that Groupon has “done a terrible job of calling that out on the website”.”
June 28, 07:19 PM

Airplanes, Part II | B.o.B, Eminem & Hayley Williams 

June 27, 10:06 PM
“Goodsie is very tight indeed. Yet another lovely and compelling project by Jonathan and the team at Hiidef.”
June 25, 08:40 PM

Three’s Company!

After many months of hard work, the private beta for Goodsie is finally ready! Post-term is an understatement - it simply refused to leave the development womb.

Goodsie is HiiDef’s third successful launch in less than 24 months and part of the 2009 vintage. The patient is in good health and seeing visitors on an email registration basis.  

About Goodsie

Goodsie makes it easy to create an elegant, enterprise-quality storefront to sell physical or digital goods. Retailers of all kinds, from eBay power sellers to artisans in handmade marketplaces, or even musicians on MySpace, can have their own branded online store without any of the traditional hassles of setting up shop online. Goodsie features a real-time design interface, structured product search, support for Paypal, Google Checkout, Amazon Payments and much more. It costs per $20 month with a 30-day free trial.

A sincere thanks to David, Jack, Kevin, Eli, Ed, Jeff, Rob, Heather, John and the rest of the team for making Goodsie a reality!

Goodsie (by Jack Zerby)

June 23, 08:11 PM
“But blogging on Tumblr is sort of like being in high school…Face it. You need to leave Tumblr behind and graduate to Posterous.”

Hey Tumblr users: Want comments? Need privacy? Graduate to Posterous - The Official Posterous Posterous

Aggressive marketing would be a woefully insufficient characterization. As both an entrepreneur and target user, this crosses my personal moral standard. Having said that, its definitely clever and very well written! I will stick with my high school friends on Tumblr though. And so will all of the HiiDef blogs. Tumblr has always been really good to me.

June 23, 04:04 PM

Cold Wind Blows | Eminem

June 23, 01:37 PM

via: Flavors.me: Pulling Your Online Presence Into One Elegant Place — building43

You’ve seen other social network aggregators like Cliqset, FriendFeed, and Google Profiles but sometimes the design leaves a lot to be desired. Flavors.me, an offering from web services incubator HiiDef Inc., offers a design-centric homepage, with a stunning color palette and hundreds of fonts to choose from. In just 15 minutes users can set up a site and pull in up to 20 different services, from Facebook to Twitter and LinkedIn.

In this interview, Ray Slakinski, a senior developer for HiiDef, discusses the functionality of Flavors.me, as well as the company’s other web offerings, including Goodsie, a personal e-commerce platform.

June 23, 12:39 AM

REVOFEV | KiD CuDi

June 23, 12:36 AM

No Love | Eminem & Lil Wayne

June 21, 04:27 PM

Love The Way You Lie | Eminem & Rihanna

June 16, 05:17 PM

Blowin Money Fast | Rick Ross & Styles P

June 15, 04:56 PM

Find Your Love | Drake

June 14, 06:10 PM
“Flavors is a great idea and very well executed.”
Jason Fried | Founder, 37 Signals (via flavors) One of our more humbling endorsements.
June 12, 09:50 PM

Integrated domain sales are coming soon to Flavors and Goodsie! GoDaddy’s UI will not be missed.

June 05, 01:57 PM
“However, if you were hoping that sudoSocial would provide a simple way to quickly set up a personal homepage, you’re going to walk away feeling disappointed. A better option for that purpose, or really any stream aggregation of your choosing, is Flavors.me. This lovely, user-friendly web service lets you customize everything design-wise, including typefaces, layouts and color schemes while also aggregating the feeds of your choice.”
June 02, 12:38 PM
  • Yeah | T.I. & Lil Wayne
    110 plays
  • Erase Me | KiD CuDi & Kanye West
    106 plays
  • Paris Morton Music (Lost Verse) | Drake
    82 plays
  • The Train Part Pt. 2 (Sir Lucious Left Foot Saves the Day) | Big Boi
    185 plays
  • Fo Yo Sorrows | Big Boi
    117 plays
  • Cinderella Man | Eminem
    162 plays
  • Up All Night | Drake
    128 plays
  • The Fire (Remix) | The Roots, B.o.B. & John Legend
    92 plays
  • Airplanes, Part II | B.o.B, Eminem & Hayley Williams
    130 plays
  • Cold Wind Blows | Eminem
    63 plays
  • REVOFEV | KiD CuDi
    66 plays
  • No Love | Eminem & Lil Wayne
    100 plays
  • Love The Way You Lie | Eminem & Rihanna
    71 plays
  • Blowin Money Fast | Rick Ross & Styles P
    54 plays
  • Find Your Love | Drake
    84 plays

Resume: LinkedIn

Profile

Jonathan Marcus

Founder & CEO at HiiDef: Flavors.me, Goodsie, Superkix and Dashboard.me
Internet | Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area, US

Experience

  • Apr 2010 - Present

    CEO / Dashboard.me

    Coming soon!
  • Feb 2009 - Present

    Founder / Goodsie.com

    Goodsie makes it easy to create an elegant, enterprise-quality storefront to sell physical or digital goods. Retailers of all kinds, from eBay power sellers to artisans in handmade marketplaces, or even musicians on MySpace, can have their own branded online store without any of the traditional hassles of setting up shop online. Goodsie features a real-time design interface, structured product search, support for Paypal, Google Checkout, Amazon Payments and much more. It costs $20 month with a 30-day free trial.
  • Sept 2008 - Present

    Founder / Flavors.me

    Flavors.me allows anyone to create an elegant website using personal content from around the Internet. It automatically organizes all kinds of information – photos, videos, blog posts, status updates, music listening habits, travel plans, resume details – into a constantly growing, interactive visual montage. Flavors.me is ideal for personal homepages, lifestreaming, digital business cards, splash and microsites, celebrity fan pages, commercial promotion, brand marketing – and everything in between.
  • May 2008 - Present

    Founder / Superkix.com

    Superkix is the only search engine for authentic sneakers. Consumers can search inventory by size, updated continuously from 50+ leading online retailers. Registered users can rate shoes, save them to a wish list and choose to be notified via email when a specific style becomes available in their size.
  • Apr 2008 - Present

    Founder and CEO / Hii Def Inc.

    HiiDef is an Internet incubator that was founded in mid-2008. We built, own and operate Flavors.me, Goodsie, Dashboard.me, and Superkix. HiiDef's team has a strong track record in the consumer Internet sector with experience from Vimeo, Digg, Mahalo, Wordpress, IAC, Pentagram and Digitalmash. The Company is distributed around the east coast of the United States, Canada and Australia. HiiDef is privately financed by a small group of prominent angels.
  • Apr 2007 - Dec 2007

    Vice President w / General Management responsibility / Vimeo

    The best video sharing service
  • Aug 2006 - Mar 2007

    Director, Programming Group / IAC

    Rubbish fabrication
  • Jan 2005 - Aug 2006

    Co-Founder, Director / Pronto

    General comparison shopping
  • Feb 2004 - Dec 2004

    Director, Interactive Development / IAC

    Incubator of pronto.com and gifts.com
  • Aug 2000 - Jul 2002

    Analyst, Technology Mergers & Acquisitions / Banc of America Securities

    Production and sales of snake oil

Education

  • 1997 - 2000

    University of Pennsylvania

    Activities: President, Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity (2000)
  • 1992 - 1996

    La Jolla High School

Info

Hot Wax

Vimeos

PythonVsPhp - PythonInfo Wiki

July 26, 08:39 PM

We are losing our nation to lies about the necessity of war (Rep. Dennis Kucinich) - The Hill's Congress Blog

In a little more than a year the United States flew $12 billion in cash to Iraq, much of it in $100 bills, shrink wrapped and loaded onto pallets.
July 07, 05:10 AM

Re: Need A Leight-Weight Artist Or Band Website? Look No Further!

Looks like we both have some work to do, right?
June 22, 12:02 PM

Re: Need A Leight-Weight Artist Or Band Website? Look No Further!

Seriously! Don't worry, he isn't on Flavors.me either :( He is on Bandcamp though: http://emancipator.bandcamp.com/
June 22, 11:59 AM

Re: Need A Leight-Weight Artist Or Band Website? Look No Further!

Is he on SoundCloud? If not, why not ;)
June 22, 11:57 AM

Re: Will Amazon replace Bing Shopping?! We take a deep dive. - Comparison Shopping Engine Strategies

yeah they (google) are really pounding the other CSEs with qualityscore changes that essentially break the search arb. Pronto seems to be doing really well with the social/ugc approach.
June 17, 09:07 AM

Re: Will Amazon replace Bing Shopping?! We take a deep dive. - Comparison Shopping Engine Strategies

Very cool to see Pronto in the top 5! Didn't realize Google had emerged as the category leader.
June 16, 09:25 PM

Re: Fox, Yahoo Sports Vet Brian Grey to Run Sports Startup Bleacher Report

Was wondering (about the Polaris connection or lack thereof) myself.
June 16, 04:42 PM

Re: Fox, Yahoo Sports Vet Brian Grey to Run Sports Startup Bleacher Report

Not odd Jakob invested because the founder is his cousin, or something similar. Are they planning to announce an investment from Polaris in conjunction? Otherwise, that may be a bid odd!
June 16, 02:34 PM

Re: Hulu For Magazines Gets a CEO: Good Luck, Morgan Guenther!

I consider TiVo to be one of the more disappointing, almost tragically so, business failures of the past decade. For a product that effected so much positive change and still remains far superior to any alternative, TiVo failed to adequately capitalize on their invention, particularly during the 1999 - 2003 period. This guy sounds like a real 'Ace'.
June 15, 09:01 AM

Re: http://caterpillarcowboy.com/post/693513254

I knew you would come around David! Great to meet you, albeit briefly, in the street at TC Disrupt :)
June 13, 08:34 AM

Re: D8 Video: Steve Jobs Explains His iAds Restrictions (And Blames Flurry)

Epic footage. Mr. VC Money Man getting schooled by Jobs!
June 09, 05:31 PM

Re: Design and Build an Attractive Personal Homepage with Flavors.me

We can't thank you enough for such kind and eloquent coverage Jennifer!
June 02, 10:43 AM

Re: All Cloud in the Background All the Time

Very cool. I had heard about Eye-Fi before and forgotten about it. This was a timely reminder. So, I just bought the 8GB version from Amazon. Tx!
May 17, 06:04 PM

Re: Site Canvas let celebrities create fancy websites without huge costs

I saw this company's demo when it first went live and we are probably going to do biz with them. Really cool bunch of people behind the site, every experienced. Flavor.me is not at all like this product.
May 14, 02:38 PM

Re: Site Canvas let celebrities create fancy websites without huge costs

Or they could use Flavors.me to create a far more dynamic and elegant web presence in less than 15 minutes. http://venturebeat.com/2010/02/26/flavors-me/
May 13, 08:30 PM

Re: StackOverflow

Forums are indeed an area ripe for innovation and opportunity. Great explanation about the genesis of the product. Congrats!
May 06, 09:40 AM

Re: Tumblr Raises Another $5 Million From Spark and Union Square. Now It Wants Your Money

I would like to see Tumblr grow into their valuation based on good old fashioned business execution rather than being bailed out via acquisition. It would be interesting to see if either USV or Spark have the chops to usher a more recent investment to profitability.
April 20, 09:56 AM

Re: http://blog.jonpierce.com/post/520863618

Lee Hower is absolutely the best even though I have yet to convince him to invest in me :) He would be my first choice were I an entrepreneur in Boston or Providence.
April 15, 10:02 AM

Re: Google Takes a (Small) Stab at Fixing Twitter Search

That's a tallest midget contest, though. Summize is better than nothing, which is what Twitter used to have until 2008, which is sort of amazing, but then again not so much, if you think about the company's history (which it explained quite well today at Chirp). And, to be sure, if you want to know what people are saying about a single key word, right now, it does indeed surface those results. But it doesn't do search in the way most people think about -- with some kind of ranking for relevance, and an intelligence that can figure out if you're more likely to be looking for "eagles" the band, the football team, or the bird. Etc.
April 14, 11:17 AM

Re: Google Takes a (Small) Stab at Fixing Twitter Search

What are you implying about Summize? Personally, I prefer Twitter search (Summize) to any of the 3rd-party Twitter search engines.
April 14, 11:05 AM

Re: Flavors.me: The Simpler, More Beautiful Aggregator

I LOVE that background. Ive wanted to buy the print for a while. I may have to copy you :)
April 11, 09:59 AM

Re: Facebook Waves Off “Fan”, Gives “Like” A Thumbs Up

Like I said, minor. But also like I said, telling. I'd tell you to go re-read the post, but you'd probably end up feeling cheated again. Luckily, as always, I offer a 100% money back guarantee on all my content.
March 29, 07:49 PM

Re: Facebook Waves Off “Fan”, Gives “Like” A Thumbs Up

Slow news day? An entire post dedicated to one word of site copy?
March 29, 01:42 PM

Re: Can NewsLabs Give Laid-Off Journalists Another Chance?

Great idea. Sounds very much like the Blip.tv model based on the positioning you outlined.
March 26, 10:00 AM

Re: http://ted-is-a-nerd.tumblr.com/post/470189328

Is this an ad for Grablr? Release it already!
March 24, 08:49 AM

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I live in Aventura, FL with my brother David. We have two Shiba Inus, Marlo Stanfield aka 'the Big Bully' and Avon Barksdale aka 'the Good Luck Charm'. Together, we go by 'the Van Buren Boys'.

HIIDEF INC. = Superkix // Flavors.me // Goodsie // Dashboard.me // HiiTrack