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07.01.11A different way to view Facebook photos with KlickFuKlickFu enables users to play doodles, games, and apps instantly with a single mouse click on the computer desktop. We started distributing private beta versions of KlickFu a few weeks ago. Today, we are excited to announce a new app for KlickFu called QuadPics Facebook. You can download a beta version of KlickFu including this new app here: http://bit.ly/klickfu-quadpics-facebook How it works: Download and install KlickFu (takes a few seconds) and run the application In the menu, choose "QuadPics Facebook" Authorize the KlickFu Facebook app to access the photos in your stream Once the app has downloaded the first set of photos, in a single motion, click ...
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06.14.11Can the patent system be fixed?There has been a lot of discussion recently by several top startup investors about how the U.S. patent system is badly broken and calling for Congress to dismantle software patents altogether. In a nutshell, the main problem is the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted many patents for inventions that seem like they would be obvious to anyone working on the Internet--and therefore should be unpatentable. A recent example is the Lodsys case, which seems to grant a patent for the "invention" of enabling users to provide feedback via a website. Often, these patents, which seem silly to many in ...
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06.07.11Try KlickFu todayIt is often said in the software development world you should launch your product early and often, get feedback from users and iterate on your functionality until you reach "product market fit." As much as I agree with that practice, with KlickFu, for various reasons, we have not been able to launch as early as we wanted. However, all that changes today. Today, we are making available the first real version of KlickFu. You can download it here today. In fact, for those of you who have been waiting for KlickFu, it would be great if you would download it now, ...
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05.11.11The downloadable is dead. Long live the downloadable!Quick update since my last post: for the past few months I have continued working as a consultant with HauteLook, the fashion flash sale site that was recently acquired by Nordstrom, managing their "off-website" experiences such as the iPhone app, mobile site, Facebook store, and some cool new stuff coming soon. (This has been an excellent experience, seeing how quickly users are adapting mobile and social commerce in a fast-growing new model.) Meanwhile, at KlickFu we have been working on refining the app while waiting to start an integration with an exciting new partner--adding some new features, fixing bugs, and making ...
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10.27.10Zoom in and out for product innovationIt's been a while since I last posted. I did not intend to take a long break, although I have kept fairly busy in the meantime, working on KlickFu and doing some consulting for the L.A.-based flash sales fashion company, HauteLook--releasing an iPhone app and a mobile website and working on other projects. Also, I have built up a small backlog of topics I want to post on, of which this is the first. Recently, I was asked to speak at an upcoming offsite for the Google Consumer Operations (ConOps) team on the subject of innovation. I had been intending to write on ...
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06.02.10Ding! You are now free to keep your points to yourselfYesterday, after returning from my trip to the Bay Area this weekend, I qualified for a free Rapid Rewards trip on Southwest airlines and received a confirmation email with the award codes. Yet the email did not include a link to post an announcement to Facebook or any other element of social interaction or social gaming--for example, to see which of my Facebook friends had qualified for trips or who had earned the most credits in the past year. In many ways, frequent flyer programs are the original social games. Users receive points for activity, they can level up based on ...
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05.19.10KlickFu invite list is openThis week we are starting the KlickFu private beta. For those who don't deal with the details of making software every day, a private beta means we are starting to distribute KlickFu to a small group of users to have them try it out and give us feedback, such as: do you like it, did it install correctly, did you have any issues downloading it, does it crash or conflict with any other programs on your machine, what do you like or not like about it, and how would you change it if you could? As you can tell, these early ...
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05.05.10Improving the Windows desktop is so… 2010For a lot of the time my co-founder Rod and I have been working on KlickFu, we have often had the feeling the area of the business we have been focusing on--enhancing the experience working with the Windows desktop--is maybe not the coolest part of the industry. Yes, Windows 7 is an excellent product and has been quite successful for Microsoft, however, for the past year, many of my fellow startup founders have been focused mainly on building new apps for Facebook or iPhone/iPad or Android. Of course, this makes total sense, since these areas are evolving rapidly and many ...
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03.01.10What I learned at GoogleIt has been almost a year since I left Google, yet I am struck how often I refer to lessons I learned there as I make daily decisions for KlickFu. I thought it might be helpful to summarize some of the most important things I learned at Google, some of which may be fairly obvious, and some may be less so. 1. Speed is the most important feature of any product. This is true for any tech product, and especially true for web services. You may believe users are going to love the new bells and whistles you are designing for ...
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02.01.10Founder Institute coming to Los Angeles!Last Thursday night I went to the info meeting for the upcoming Founder Institute session in Los Angeles. Founder Institute (FII) is the entrepreneur training and mentoring program started and run by Adeo Ressi, in which I participated last fall. After the initial session in Silicon Valley, FII started additional sessions in NYC, Seattle, Washington D.C., and San Diego. Now they are expanding to Denver, Singapore, Paris, and L.A. I am particularly excited about FII starting a session in L.A. because: 1) FII is an excellent program and can be a great help to new founders; and 2) through its expanded ...
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