Archive for April, 2007

We needed a public place to work where we could focus. Meet the people who work for us. That has free wifi. And if it could be, where we felt the camaraderie of Cheers. There are a lot of coffee shops in town we frequent and a few months ago we fell in love.

Solution: Firefly Coffee
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We learned two really good lessons this week. Why do good lessons always cost thousand of dollars?

Lesson #1: Manage The Right People

Our most expensive contractor costs us a lot of money and he is totally worth it. Problem was, Peter & I spent so much time running around managing our Jr’s and making sure they knew what they were doing, we didn’t pay him or his project enough attention. In retrospection, we innately assumed, at that rate he should manage himself. Truth be told, he did well, but did not approach things as we would have preferred (it happens).

The problem is that when your $15/hr Jr. goes astray, that’s one thing. When your head developer or project manager goes astray , that is insanely more expensive. So thousands of dollars later we are back on track and got a good lesson. Manage the right people.
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Woohoo … blip.tv is a finalist in the 2007 webby award’s!

Go vote for us in the people’s choice award!! Sign up to vote, then got to:

Websites -> entertainment -> broadband -> vote for blip.tv

This is the second international contest in which blip has come out on top (yeah we haven’t won quite yet). We also won 2 awards in the Interactive Media Awards in 2006 in both the community and hosting categories.

I had to share my dialog with Angus (programer @ blip) – not only cuz he is such an amazing coder with a great wit – and it makes me feel happy when I chat with him – but I love it when someone on the client’s side understand the curious foibles that people often present.

Angus Top Reasons blip should win a webby!

1. Best use of the color ‘pale blue’
2. Most excitingly complex mid-page navigational feature.
3. Most comps ignored by client
4. Coolest frontpage jumbotron thingummy