It is with incredible pride (and about equal parts shock and bewilderment) that I report that Socialbomb is the winner of NYU Stern’s Business Plan Competition! Out of the initial 155 teams that entered, Adam Simon, Scott Varland, Mihir Dange and I took on the last three on April 25 at the competition finals [...]
Holy crap! Socialbomb’s on BoingBoing!
It’s a sweet piece, and it was mega-nice of all the BB folks to post it. The comments are actually shockingly intelligent too — seems like people kinda get what we’re going for, and that RULES.
Edit: And now Kotaku!!
So while I’ve bantered about the process of making the new SB 2.0 units and the things we’ve done with them, I haven’t given many nice images of them. So, let’s fix that:
Yay pretty pictures! The Documentation Station recently put up on the floor at ITP (a nice camera, a great lightbox, some [...]
Thursday, February 28, 2008
We Socialbomb folks (Adam, Scott and I) have been quite busy lately, making prototypes, writing proposals and presenting things at various places. So far, the latter point has mostly involved the Stern Business Plan Competition, which we are Semi-Finalists in (and still in the final running), but it’s about to lead us to San [...]
Sunday, February 24, 2008
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The new Socialbomb boards have been prototyped, printed, and soldered up — and they work perfectly! Adam, Scott and I are working on some backend changes now, [...]
Monday, February 18, 2008
So I’m not sure I’ve mentioned this here in any detail, but Adam, Scott and I are taking a revised version of our way-fun Socialbomb game pieces to O’Reilly E-Tech this year (err, in two weeks). We’re absolutely thrilled and honored to be part of such an amazing conference, and stoked to get to head [...]
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Following on the heels of a few other performances recently, I had the great pleasure of joining several of my favorite folks at Monkey Town this past Friday to make some noise as part of the Sculpting Voice show, curated by Lesley Flanigan (who I also performed with, see below).
Photo by Joo Youn Paek.
From the [...]
Thursday, November 15, 2007
When I was making the crickets, I ran into a lot of issues with finding a reasonably-priced, pcomp-able sound generation system. There’s some work (especially by Limor Fried) into making open-source MP3 players, but they ain’t cheap and they take a lot of tinkering. There’s voice chips, like those found in toys and/or [...]
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
It dawned on me recently that I’d never posted the final cricket code here, so I went back, did some touch-ups, and slapped it up here. If anyone’s going to try doing this, the line breaks may goof things up. This is also assuming you’re using my wiring setup, with two relays (one attached to [...]
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
…with a bit of a nod to Mouna, RSG and yours truly, amongst others. I’m highly flattered, and a bit confused, but really glad the festival’s getting the attention it deserves. It was an amazing time — by far the best festival I’ve been involved in, and likely the best I’ve even been [...]