I just got an email that informed me we’re a finalist for the MITX Awards this year in the “applied technology” category, which is great news. You may recall that we won at last year’s award ceremony. The award nomination this year is for our new product browser and some of the underlying geotargeting technology, [...]
Last year, Kilby took some great shots of the Boston fireworks and MIT selected one of them for use on their homepage this weekend. The photo was taken from StyleFeeder’s office in Central Square in Cambridge and shows the famous MIT dome underneath some fancy pyrotechnics. You can see more from this year on his [...]
Here at StyleFeeder we work with a staggering number of merchant data feeds from affiliate networks and other partners. The data quality of these feeds varies quite a bit, sometimes by sins of commission (data where it doesn’t belong), sometimes by sins of omission (leaving out important information). In an effort to get the word [...]
As you may know, StyleFeeder has a rather large Facebook application that we launched in the summer of 2007, just after the Facebook platform was announced. We grew quickly, mainly because the application is actually useful (rather than the apps that let you throw electric sheep at people, which are fun but also tiresome) [...]
Lots of people find StyleFeeder via search engines, and the usual suspects top the list: Google, Yahoo, Ask, Live, etc. Making an appearance in the top 10 this month: CNN.
Appearing below CNN in number of search visits: Altavista, Lycos. My how times have changed.
I just tried using a little utility called subcloud to mount an S3 bucket as a filesystem using fuse on a CentOS box. I did ‘df -h’ and I got this:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 9.9G 2.5G 7.0G 26% /
/dev/sda2 147G 6.9G 133G 5% /mnt
none 851M 0 851M 0% /dev/shm
fuse 256T 0 [...]
I’ve been using some ssh port forwards to get onto our office lan where we have our integration environment on days when I’m working remotely (i.e. we got 12 inches of snow yesterday). But those are more complicated these days since I need to connect to four or five services (databases, web services, [...]
Some of us spent the day doing some mockups of some new StyleFeeder features with Balsamiq. I’ve done enough work with Adobe Flex to be slightly skeptical that it might have the polish enough to survive as a full-on desktop application, but there simply doesn’t seem to be any other good mockup applications out [...]
Hear, hear!
Sequential programming is one of those things that is nice for controlled examples, but is starting to look awfully impractical in the real world. In fact, we’ve had some discussions at StyleFeeder lately where we were talking about the things that we as a company could not exist without. Open source software is one, [...]
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