Delicious Monster on the News
The local NBC station here in Seattle - KING 5 - visited Delicious Monster HQ (aka Zoka) on Monday to shoot some footage for a story that aired during the 10 o'clock news.
They filmed us working at Zoka and did a little interview with Wil and me to create the final 90-second story that turned out great. If you want to check it out I grabbed it off my TiVo and posted it above.
posted by Mike Matas at 6:07 PM
18 Comments:
Neat. Is it accurate when they say you were "pretty much fired" from your previous employer (Omni)? Could you tell us why?
Anyway, I look forward to new versions of DL.
The QT clip doesn't appear to be working.
Love the product, love the news segment, love you guys! Congrats!
http://bigtime.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/02/17/delicious_library_eat_me.html
Hey Wil -
Congrats on the interview! I had a couple of suggestions for 1.5 and/or 2.0 that I think would be quite useful, and should improve the speed of DL.
1) "Recommended" items should not be stored at all - they should be downloaded on-the-fly when accessed. This would save hundreds of megabytes of disk space, since DL would no longer have to store all the cover art for the recommended items! This would also make exporting to HTML a lot faster since the XML data file would contain only "real" entries, not recommendations that would have to be skipped. I'd be willing to bet that most people don't access the Recommendations, and if they do, it's not very often... so it doesn't make sense to take up so much disk space in storing those items, when retrieving them on-the-fly wouldn't be much of a hit (if done only occasionally).
Also, Amazon does change its recommendations periodically, so storing them would require a manual refresh to get the latest recommendations; loading them on-the-fly would always provide up-to-date content. Perhaps provide a preference to store or dynamically load, if you want to maintain both options?
2) The "Recently Imported" shelf doesn't seem to ever get emptied... items can stay in there for months! Is there a way to purge this shelf manually, since it doesn't seem to happen automatically? You should also add this to preferences, as in, "Automatically purge items older than XX days from Recently Imported shelf."
Hopefully those suggestions help... otherwise, a great product. =) I can't wait for the next version!
--- CG
Great video clip. It's cool to see behind your company a little more and I'm sure that it will help your sales no end now that you've been on TV.
http://www.allwithin.com
The video clip doesn't work in Firefox for some reason.
Nice! I like the HQ. So how do you guys keep company's privacy in a public setting?
"They filmed us working at Zoka and did a little interview with Wil and I to create the final..."
That would be "Will and me"! Grammar isn't that difficult.
Great piece. The Omni reference was fascinating. I am sure many of us would be interested to hear that story. (Hint hint)
I can't wait for the upcoming version(s) of DL!
Keep up the great work.
-Hugh
I am inspired to move my office to my local coffee shop/Net Cafe'.
HEY, post when the new version is coming! We just need to know - pacify me.
Hugh...'Wil and I' is actually correct grammar. 'Wil and me' is incorrect.
Do you guys do your own marketing or do you outsource? I am a software engineer myself, but lack the marketing expertise. You guys are getting some great press!
Holy cow... we're in Zoka all the time. Why not do some kind of Delicious meetup or something?!
Something weird here - the "Click to Play" link doesn't work for me in Firefox, although it's fine in Safari. Also, Firefox messes up the white border. Can't see any obvious reason looking at the source code.
BTW - just for the record, Hugh's right. In this context, "Wil and me" is correct. You wouldn't say "did an interview with I" (unless you were from Somerset). We all had that "Say 'Kevin and I', not 'me and Kevin'" thing drummed into us as kids, but thing to check is whether you'd say "I" or "me" if the other person wasn't being mentioned. Putting the other person first is just polite (and usually makes the sentence flow better).
I love this product but I need you guys to stretch the envelope to allow me to catalog my comic book collection. Comics comics comics ...- John
There's not much of a story behind why they were fired from Omni - they just spent too much time at Zoka for coffee breaks!
Great work guys :p
BTW. Richard and Hugh - It is 'Will and I'. Your still speaking English, no matter how your ancestors bastardised it :p
"Wil and me" is correct. I've fixed the original post. :)
For the grammatically challenged, the way to check is always to break apart the conjunction:
"An interview with Wil and an interview with I"? No dice. It's definitely "an interview with me." :)
Uhhh...Anonymous...it's "you're still speaking....", not "Your still speaking...."
pseudo-grammaticists... * rools eyes *
Post a Comment
<< Home