Maybe Inkd will be an award winner?
I have the honor of being a panelist/judge for the upcoming Seattle 2.0 Awards event on May 7!
The Seattle 2.0 Awards recognizes the amazing accomplishments of the best of over 300 Seattle area technology startups (despite the challenging economy), and the exceptional people who are behind their heroic efforts. They will single out the very best of the best, as judged by the people who knows best: their peers in the startup community. Maybe even Inkd will win something! Attend the awards ceremony on May 7 if you can make it to Seattle!
Here are the categories!
Best Startup
Best Boot-strapped Startup
Best Startup CEO
Best Startup Technologist
Best Venture Capitalist
Best Angel Investor
Best Startup Product Designer
Best Service Provider to Startups
Best Blog from/about Startup
Best Social Event for Startups
Curious about the browser stats for our new company Inkd.com?
The results are amazing.
Internet Explorer is just 11%!
Check out the rest of the browser stats for Inkd.com here.
Thanks to Seattle Times for mentioning the Inkd launch!
Thanks to TechFlash for mentioning Inkd launch today!
John Cook was kind enough to make mention of our latest company Inkd on TechFlash today!
Inkd.com has launched today!
The latest project from Curious Office and Second Avenue Partners launches today! Inkd is the World’s First Market for Original Print Design. Get printing templates such as brochures and business cards for free. Thanks to everyone on the Inkd team for their hard work over the last several months! Download free brochure templates, newsletters, flyers, business cards, letterhead templates and more!
Download free brochure template
Download free letterhead template
Download free business card template
Here’s a nice write-up from TechCrunch.
Original Atari! Anyone else have one of these?
Saw this in a bar in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle yesterday.
New desks at Curious Office/Wishpot/Zooppa
Yes they look cool. No we didn’t spend a lot of money. The office is nice heh? We’re located in the Pioneer Square area of Seattle.
The new Apture Twitter Viewer
The folks over at Apture are certainly an interesting bunch. They are obviously very shrewd about how they think about the future of the web and, more specifically, content mash-ups. I’ve played with Apture here on Curious Office to embed supplemental information as shown here, where I link the respective Wikipedia entry to the actual name of one of our companies right on the Curious Office website.
Once you’ve set up your free account on Apture, you can integrate reference guides, images, video, maps, music, documents, presentations on your website simply by highlighting the text you want to link. Apture uses a fairly complex bit of javascript to enable a dashboard that hovers above the page you’ve enabled. The dashboard launches the Apture Media Hub from which you access media from a range of sources right in the DIV layer without ever leaving the site you’re working on. Just type in what you are looking for and Apture returns information from about 25-35 sources of external information though I find Wikipedia to be a particularly reliable and relevant reference to embed based on the quality of material that comes back.
I also found Apture to be a useful way to quickly add your own external URLs on your site…without having to login to your blog and edit a previous post. So, for bloggers you can see that Apture is an interesting and speedy way to get your existing content to a more valuable state. Since Apture is the intermediary, it’s also an interesting outlet for publishers looking for more distribution. Not that Twitter needs more distribution but I did need even more reasons to like Apture. They recently announced Twitter integration which allows you to embed Twitter searches that are relevant to YOUR blog and they also recognize a Twitter address on your site and display that Twitter feed for you.
Here’s a Twitter search result for SEO. Using the Apture dashboard to do this looked like this:
Apture Dashboard
Hover over this to see it in action:
#SEO
You can also hover over my twitter name to see the results:
@curiousoffice.com
The new Twitter functionality in Apture is a nice move because it allows you to have finer control over the quality and type of INCREMENTAL information that you publish in context with the rest of your blog articles.
Curious Office Twitter
Dummy Credit Card Numbers for Testing
4111-1111-1111-1111
via Dummy Credit Card Numbers for Testing.
Page-Sender: Full-featured Mac Fax Software for OS X
Page-Sender: Full-featured Mac Fax Software for OS X.
Looks very cool actually!
Seattle 2.0 Awards 2009
My good friend Marcelo Calbucci of Sampa just announced his latest creation – the Seattle 2.0 Awards for 2009. The Seattle 2.0 Awards recognizes the amazing accomplishments of the best of over 300 Seattle area technology startups (despite the challenging economy), and the exceptional people who are behind their heroic efforts.
This is a big undertaking by Marcelo and I really appreciate this effort as well as the work put in by all the other panelists involved.
Vanessa Fox
Rebecca Lovell
NWEN
Alyssa Royse
Just Cause
Danielle Morrill
Seattle 2.0/Twillio
Bill Bryant
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Matt McIlwain
Madrona Venture Group
Jon Staenberg
Rustic Canyon
Mike Mathieu
Frontseat
Brady Forrest
O’Reilly
Marcelo Calbucci
Sampa & Seattle 2.0
Renay San Miguel
King 5/NWCN
Brier Dudley
Seattle Times
John Cook
TechFlash
Chris Pirillo
Lockergnome & Gnomedex
Tony Wright
RescueTime
Nathan Kaiser
nPost
T.A. McCann
Gist
John Maher
Lunch 2.0
Andru Edwards
Gear Live
Kevin Leneway
Microsoft
Geoff Entress
Voyager Capital
Greg Huang
Xconomy
Dusk setting in for the latest Curious Office/Second Avenue project
Great lighting in the afternoon while the team works away…
Working late in the Pressplane office
Just 2 more weeks before Pressplane launch!
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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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FeedDigest
