Our office is a bit of a steam-bath today, and we’re really feeling it. And as much as I love the sun, I have to say that my allergies are getting in the way of enjoying the warmth. (I’m currently working a mix of Claritin, Flonase, saline, and a big box of Kleenex–what’s your pollen [...]
There are good things happening at MakeFive HQ. We moved, we’re lean(er), and we’re working like bananas on new features.
Lean and mean
Lately a big time-suck here has involved moving and getting skinny. Over the past few months we wanted to get our burn-rate down as low as possible. In part this helps given the dodgy [...]
We’ve had stellar traffic recently, breaking any of our past records. In fact, a whopping 140,000 people visited MakeFive last week. That’s a lot, and we’re happy to connect with so many new people!
Contest news
The new contest seems to be bringing some added activity. Congratulations go out to plmiller who won $100 and a sassy [...]
We’ve had a number of users ask us about the ability to automatically tweet the lists they vote on. Today we’ve activated this function in MakeFive, but it’s taken us a while to get here.
Our hold-up in getting this started is largely a result of us waiting for a secure authentication method to be adopted [...]
Sometimes the notion of giving away money seems like fun. (Well, at least we figure that’s how it must feel.) Regardless, it’s a crappy Monday afternoon, the rain is coming down in buckets, and we want to mix things up a little.
Some of you folks are really active here, and we greatly appreciate that. You [...]
We just released an update to the MakeFive Facebook app! We think it’s a pretty neat one, as it shows your friends on Facebook what you are voting on. (It also lets you showcase your favorite lists in your Facebook tabs.)
Here’s how to do it:
- Click here to install the MakeFive Facebook app
- Go to [...]
So, with all of the new, let’s take a moment to talk about what’s new.
We have been in the news
Eric Schonfeld gave us a nice start to the holiday season by featuring our Elevator Pitch. This was followed by Robin Wauters making note of a recent article we posted, in his piece, Six Reasons Your [...]
Working on MakeFive can be a little strange, as it’s something so different. We’re not really modeling it on anything that already exists, which means that we’re really trying a lot of different things to see what works. A few weeks ago we realized that although the community component is working well, we have to [...]
Want to know what’s going on at MakeFive? Want to know all the time? Well no problem–all you had to do was ask! Just follow our Twitter feed where we share the newest topics as they happen!
Just click here: www.twitter.com/makefive and get ready to share in some sweet and sticky Twitter/MakeFive love. (On the bed, [...]
We’re big fans of Michael Arrington and Erick Schonfeld’s website TechCrunch. It’s a blog that showcases news on tech startups, and I start most days by reading it. They still haven’t talked about MakeFive, which we think is just plain crazy, but we figure that they’ll get on board one of these days. ;-)
Their new [...]
