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TapCanvas Launch
Updated to WordPress 3.4.2
http://wordpress.org/news/2012/09/wordpress-3-4-2/
Fixes for some bugs
Back to work on 3.5
It’s time to update
Updated to WordPress 3.3.1
Things that happened today:
- First day in a new office! We’re now working on TapCanvas out of First Floor Labs, which despite the name is located on the 3rd floor of AOL’s Palo Alto building.
- Yahoo! layoffs
- Updated to WordPress 3.3.1 and wrote this post.
On Leaving Twitter
Four years ago, I signed up for a Twitter account. I went through the typical new user hatching process. For a year, I didn’t get it. I barely logged in. When I tweeted, it was about how the Twitter website was down. But eventually I started following someone interesting. Then another. Some followed back… Conversations, Retweets, and the iPhone client happened… After a while, seemingly everyone in the valley had a Twitter account, and plenty were using it as their identity. I too clicked the little blue bird more and more frequently. I was hooked.
Two years ago, a Twitter recruiter contacted me. I went on to interview rounds with amazing, crazy, smart people. The energy was palpable, and I was psyched by the opportunity. Twitter was the hot startup that everyone wanted to join. I was offered a job, and I accepted. I picked the red pill, and got to see how far the rabbit hole goes.
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