Another great OSX screenshot app
My friend Issa Breibish over at Veer turned me on to Paparazzi…check it out.
Shelfari purchased by Amazon
It was announced yesterday that Amazon has acquired Shelfari. Over the last year, the team at Shelfari (led by Josh Hugh) positioned the company as a leading online destination for sharing and discovery of books in a social format. The site has received much acclaim for it’s brilliant user interface and its clear that the Shelfari team prioritized high quality execution with this effort and Amazon was obviously impressed enough to feel that outright ownership was best for them.
Hard work and attention to detail seemed to prevail here and we couldn’t be happier for everyone at the company who worked so hard on this project. Congratulations.
6 tools for sharing webpages with your Mac
I stumbled on this blog post titled “6 Screenshot Utilities You Should Know About” while looking for a Mac utility that would let me capture screens even for longer pages that go below the fold.
Finally found a great tool call SnapWeb. Works great on Leopard.
SEO, SEM, marketing and entreprenuer sites to bookmark
The style of this site isn’t my thing but this really is a nice, complete list of sites to add to your bookmark list. All in all, a nice list of informative blogs to help entrepreneurs with their marketing efforts.
Letting grids guide you
So I’m starting out on this new project Presslayer and I wanted to be sure that I chose a screen resolution that was appropriate for 1024 and also easily divisible to support 2, 3, 6 and 8 columns etc.
I wound up using 984 pixels in width and proceeded to make a nice Photoshop template that had a 12 pixel gutter for each of the various column scenarios that I might encounter.
I know a ton of people (like Cameron Moll who loves to “grid the 960″) use 960 but not for me. Not this time. Times they are getting as wider. Don’t want to make your own Photohop guide template? Well, feel free to go ahead and download mine.
IE6 and PNG’s just don’t really get along do they?
This script adds near-native PNG support with alpha opacity to IE 5.5 and 6.
Remember everything with Evernote?
Now this looks interesting.
And these people seem to think so too: Evernote. Why it will make it & 20 Awesome Ways to Use It.
Curious Office is hiring for it’s new venture!
Our new project code-named Presslayer is looking for a variety of new people. You’ll be joining previously successful and well-funded entrepreneurs in the Seattle area who have started and sold several venture backed companies. You’ll also be signing on to a solid business concept that is backed by some of the most well known venture folks in the area.
Flexible work schedule, great office location and the occasional free lunch are all part of the deal.
We’re looking for:
Print and Interactive Designers
- 2+ years of professional print and web design experience using Adobe products such as: InDesign and Illustrator are a huge plus
Community builders
- Strong understanding of viral online marketing initiatives: blogging, conversational marketing, promotions and email campaigns, banner ads etc and previous e-commerce design experience
- Strong understanding of SEO is a huge plus
Send us your resume. We’ll respond to everyone.
Thanks!
Kelly Smith
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Curious Office Companies
Inkd
Inkd is our latest internally developed concept. We raised our $1.7 million seed round on September 22 and are backed by Second Avenue Partners and a variety of tremendous angel investors. We are developing the World's First Market for Original Print Design.
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CafePress
Cafepress acquired Imagekind in July 2008. CafePress.com is an online marketplace that offers sellers complete e-commerce services to independently create and sell a wide variety of products, and offers buyers unique merchandise across virtually every topic. -
Imagekind
Curious Office started Imagekind in 2006 and it is the world's fastest-growing art site offering over 750,000 high-quality fine art images for sale. Imagekind gives consumers limitless options to purchase museum-quality framed and poster art from over 50,000 domestic and international emerging and established artists. -
SEOmoz.org
Curious Office invested in SEOmoz along with Ignition Partners in 2007. SEOmoz serves as one of the largest online hubs for search marketers worldwide by providing education, tools, resources and paid services to help make every SEO the best they can be. -
Shelfari
Amazon.com acquired Shelfari in September 2008. Based in Seattle, Shelfari introduces readers to our global community of book lovers and encourages them to share their literary inclinations and passions with peers, friends, and total strangers -
Fanzter
Fanzter is headquartered in Collinsville, Connecticut and are the creators of the wildly popular celebrity style and entertainment platform Coolspotters.com, which launched in May 2008. Fanzter secured $2 Million In Series B Funding Led By Steamboat Ventures in March 2009. -
Wishpot
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netConcepts
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Rouxbe
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RocketVox
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