Visit my Lens at Squidoo

Squidoo is an interesting site and I've created a "Lens" there - please have a look!

www.photoalbum.com is now open!

Online Scrapbooking now has a new home! www.photoalbum.com is now open in Beta mode and we are working hard to make sure our online design tool is the best it can be.

We are really enjoying the opportunity to work with all of the very talented designers that are building beautiful designs for scrapbooking. We have implemented support for both designer and user accounts. The user accounts provides a private space for uploading images and building custom designs. The designer account provides an interface to build templates that everyone can see and use in their designs.

Please come and visit and let us know what you think.

David

Skype is down - how does that effect you?

We are spread all over the place and Skype has become a service we use on a constant basis. Today they say they are having software problems which puts a real crunch on us. What other web services have you come to depend on for your daily grind?

Semi finalist at TechCrunch 20

PhotoAlbum.com was selected as one of the semi-finalist for the upcoming TechCrunch 20 event. We are really happy to be included in their list of startup projects to interview.

We interviewed with Jason Calacanis the originator of Weblogs Inc and currently working on www.mahalo.com the human powered search engine.

Now we wait to see if we advance to the next level!

Is LinkedIn coming Unhooked?

Like many others in the business community - I find LinkedIn to be my social networking place of choice. I don't feel like I fit in at MySpace and not many of my peers have joined Facebook yet, but quite a lot are on LinkedIn.

Over the past few weeks I have noticed that LinkedIn seems to be coming unhooked. It started off that - now everytime I perform any action it askes me for my login and password - over and over again. I wrote customer service about it and they responded saying "
There is an anomaly that we are researching is not tied to a single browser type or operating system affecting a very small segment of our users" - what does this mean?

Next I started getting repeated emails from requests sent out ages ago. The same message over and over again.

Now I am trying to post a recomendation for a long time business contact. I have posted the receommendation 3 times and my friend still has not received it. I've written to customer service and so has my friend but still no answer.

Has anyone else been having similar problems?

Please tell me of Heaven and Hell

The master gazed at the young Samurai and smiled. Then his smile turned to rolling laughter. Pointing at the young warrior he said "You ignorrant bumpkin! You presume to ask me a wise Master about Heaven or Hell? Don't waste my time - you are too ignorant to possibly comprend such things!"

The Samurai's temper flared, he strained to resit drawing his sword to take the head of this Zen master!
The master was not finished " Its quite clear that none of your lineage of loots and fools could ever understand a word of this!"

Enraged as never before the Samurai moved to rise and draw his weapon!

In that very moment the Master pointed at the Samurai and said "There open the gates of Hell!"

The Warrior froze - understanding took control - Hell was not a realm beyond his life but within him now!
He dropped to a bow of gratitude to his Master!

The Master smiled - pointed - and said "There open the gates of Heaven!"

Quality and Integrity - as a technology!

Its an interesting consideration!
But for us it is our history!

Our base technology is Print Trapping - this is technology to improve commercial printing to the highest quality possible! It is technology designed to insure that print buyers receive printed pieces with the highest possible integrity!

What a lofty goal! We have devoted many years to this and it has permeated our lives! Think of it - our customers contact us about support on fine details in their printed piece that on average is about 5 thousands of an inch in size! Its mind boggling!

A human hair is larger than the width of most commercial print traps! Our software has more rules to produce quality trapping than most spread sheets use - yet is developed to run millions of times faster!

We have been developing solutions to improve the quality and integrity of printed pieces since 1988! I hope that Quality and Integrity have rubbed off on us in the process!!