December 2010
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Our Take on Filtering - wearenytech.com
As many of you know, we designed and built the wearenytech.com website (with CMS) in one night. In my opinion, the single most important feature, which I also think is often overlooked is the filtering system. While we definitely had a lot of ideas on how to possibly handle filtering, credit has to go to Eric for pushing for the “natural language” method that we ended up creating.
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WeAreNYTech.com Interview Questions
The most common question that we’ve been getting asked lately is how we come up with the questions for the interviews.
Here’s a three part explanation:
When Eric and I were first hashing out the details of the site, we decided that we really liked the way that the New York Magazine Look Book seemed to ask somewhat random, unique questions.
I had just listened an old Entrepreneurial...
Mashups, Markets and Motherhood: "We Are NY Tech"... →
terezan:
We Are NY Tech is a new website featuring a person from the New York tech scene each day. It was developed by Matt Shampine and his team at Simande.
What an awesome concept — a beautiful, clean site that does a beautiful job of curating and framing a host of terrific individuals. I love…
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The Fred Wilson Effect
In case you missed it this morning, a side project of ours, We Are NY Tech, received a surprising endorsement from Fred Wilson on his blog, A VC. It definitely made for a very exciting and crazy day to say the least. Here’s a breakdown of today’s stats:
Number of times the server went down: 1
Twitter followers started this morning at 32 and closed out the day at 454 and...
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