Jay Meattle

Author: meattle

  • HUGE NEWS: Shareaholic Wins Grand Prize in Mozilla.org’s Firefox Contest!

    Mozilla Firefox Labs Hearts Shareaholic

    What do Garrett Camp (founder, StumbleUpon), Brendan Eich (CTO, Mozilla and creator of JavaScript), Jesse James Garrett (president, Adaptive Path), Tariq Karim (founder, NetVibes), and Joshua Schachter (founder, del.icio.us) have in common?

    They were all part of the tech celebrity judge panel that picked Shareaholic as a Grand Prize winner of Extend Firefox 2, a Mozilla sponsored contest for the best Firefox extensions!

    Grand Prize Winner!The winners were announced last week. Three Firefox extensions, including Shareaholic (!!), were named Grand Prize winners after being selected from a list of more than 100 submissions.

    About Extend Firefox 2:

    Extend Firefox is a developer contest to encourage development and innovation in Web experience through add-ons to Firefox 2.

    All entries were judged and scored by a panel of experts based upon excellence in: (a) User Experience (30%); (b) Creativity (30%); (c) Platform Leverage (15%); (d) Technical Correctness (15%); (e) Open Source and Use of Standards (10%).

    Check out Mozilla’s official announcement and rest of the winners and runners up here.

    The grand prizes are awesome, but we are very much more excited about how many more people will now find out about Shareaholic as a result of winning the contest, and the resulting momentum. If you don’t already have Shareaholic, you can get it here.

    A big thank YOU for supporting, using, and believing in Shareaholic. Much more to come 🙂

  • Bzzster growing up – gets an “About Us” page

    A couple of days ago, David and I decided that it was time to put up an about us page for Bzzster.

    Though not everyone wants to know more about us, and it is probably the last page that most people will visit, we don’t want to disappoint those who do want to know more about the people, idea and values behind Bzzster and Shareaholic.

    About Bzzster: http://bzzster.com/about

  • Super excited about SxSW Interactive 2008

    SxSW Interactive 2008

    March 7-11, 2008
    SXSW Interactive
    Austin, Texas

    The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology. Whether you are a hard-core geek, a dedicated content creator, a new media entrepreneur, or just someone who likes being around an extremely creative community, SXSW Interactive is for you!

    it’s going to be my first time attending. it sounds like A LOT of fun, can’t wait!

    please ping/tweet/email/message/im me if you’re going, would love to connect and catch up 🙂

  • 98 billion dollars. Not including Flickr.

    Shpigler the Shark 🙂

    Ahh Valleywag. thank you.

  • Build a company you are proud of

    “Build something people want, scale it up, make sure it’s defensible, and make sure you can make money with it. Build a company you are proud of. If you do those things, you’ll do just fine.” — Marc Andreessen, technology entrepreneur