We’re happy to grow the team again today. Chris Metcalf joins blist as our first Technical Program and Product Manager, or TPPM for short. Chris joins us from Amazon, where he was initially a software engineer, but most recently a TPPM for the last year. Chris earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science engineering from [...]
Continue Reading →Happy Memorial Day. A genuine and sincere thank you to all who gave their lives in defense of freedom. If you have some time today, I encourage you to research the roots of the song “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Originally written in 1855 by William Steff as a campfire song, this patriotic anthem has [...]
Continue Reading →You may have seen my post that a couple of weeks ago I decided to try twitter. Feel free to follow me at www.twitter.com/kmerritt. My first 10 days or so have been mostly positive, other than the annoyance of the service being down fairly often and the mental distraction of the engineer in me wanting [...]
Continue Reading →Many of you have commented that you like the dashboard and are enjoying seeing how other people are using blist. Some of you have asked why some of the activities have pictures associated with the person using blist. Those people have updated their blist profile with a photo, image or caricature. So how can you [...]
Continue Reading →As most people who subscribe to this blog know, blist raised $6.5M from Frazier Technology Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures earlier this year. While raising money does tend to be picked up and reported on by journalists, it really is a non-event. What matters is what you do with the capital you’ve raised. After all, the [...]
Continue Reading →Earlier today we released an update to blist. This post outlines some of the enhancements. You may have noticed that we’ve slowed down from the frenetic pace of feature releases. That was deliberate and in response to user feedback. People were telling us that the basic feature set was rich enough but that there were [...]
Continue Reading →One of blist’s most powerful features is Discovery, which lets you create a new blist by using someone else’s blist as a starting point. I have a guest post over on FlowingData today, describing what Discovery is, and the thinking behind making everyone’s blists discoverable by others. Check out the post and while you’re there, [...]
Continue Reading →Congratulations to Tony Wright, co-founder of RescueTime for being my first follower on Twitter. I know Tony and know he’s here in Seattle, so Tony come on by to pick out your blist t-shirt. We’ve got long sleeve or short and two versions – hi fidelity color logo or monochromatic white logo on black fabric [...]
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