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Monday, November 6th, 2006

Buy levitra c.o.d., Hello fellow Fanpoppers, we've been so busy adding new features and improving Fanpop that we've neglected the good 'ol Fanpop blog (whoops). North Carolina NC N.C. , Nevertheless, I wanted to officially announce two new features for you:


  • The Fanpop Soapbox: The Soapbox provides fans a way to post their thoughts, comprare levitra, Order levitra pills, musings, opinions or anything else to a given spot, Texas TX Tex. . Billiga levitra apotek, Feel free to get up on the soapbox when you're upset that a new tv show that hasn't lived up to the hype, or you've got a specific idea about how to watch the Star Wars trilogy or when you just want to tell the world about a cool little startup's humble beginnings ;-), cheapest levitra. Illinois IL Ill. , It's easy to do and a great way to drum up a conversation with fellow fans.  For people who don't maintain a regular blog or just want to be heard by an immediate audience of readers who share the same interest, Soapbox is the perfect venue to be heard.

  • Personalized RSS Feeds, Kaufen levitra. Acheter levitra discount, Tired of checking the site for the latest updates in your subscribed spots. Now you can go to your personal profile page (click on the "my page" link when signed in) and look for the orange rss button next to "my spots", buy levitra c.o.d.. This will take you to an rss feed that has all the latest updates from the spots you are subscribed to, generic levitra. Ordering levitra online, To further customize the feed, simply join other spots.


We've also made a host of other performance and small UI enhancements across the site, φτηνές φαρμακείο levitra. Billige levitra apotek, Many of these changes are based on direct feedback from all of you. So thanks for all the ideas and encouragement to date, order levitra without prescription. Delaware DE Del. , We've got a lot of other cool new stuff up our sleeves in the coming months and will keep you posted on things as they happen...

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Friday, September 22nd, 2006

We've added a couple more cool new Fanpop Order soma, features for all you fanpoppers this week. Buy soma without prescription, Here are the details:


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Yes, I know, Koop korting soma, Ordering soma no rx, we didn't launch with them and folks have been begging us to add them asap. Feel free to subscribe to them via your favorite newsreader or news aggregation site (bloglines, billig kaufen soma, Lowest price soma, my yahoo, etc.).


Here's a list of the currently supported RSS feeds:



  • Fanpop 100

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    Track the latest additions to the site.

    (http://www.fanpop.com/recentlinks/rss)

  • Spot Feeds: Stay up-to-date on the latest news, reviews, Kaufen soma, Order soma, videos and more in your favorite spots. Look for the RSS button on the Spot home and links pages.


By the way, buy soma online, Billige soma Apotheke, if you're a complete beginner when it comes to RSS and have no idea what I'm talking about, don't despair, soma online cheap. Cheap soma, Here's a link to an article that helps total neophytes get up to speed on RSS: "RSS for Total Newbies"


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The recent activity feature allows you to keep tabs on what's going on in the spots you've joined. To access this feature, sign in and go to your fanpop profile page (click the 'my page' link in the upper right corner of the page when you are signed in), order soma. Here's what you'll find:



  • Recent comments to your contributions

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That's it for now. Keep the suggestions and feedback coming. And we'll let you know about the next batch of cool features when they're available (we're currently working on 'em).


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Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Buy soma no prescription, Hi Fanpoppers. Just wanted to announce a few new features that we've rolled out on the site to make your Fanpop experience even better:

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We've now made it easer to tell your friends about Fanpop and share the favorite links you discover on the site. För soma online, Look for "invite a friend" and "share this link" on the spot pages and the link comments pages.

The Fanpop Bookmarklet

A number of fans have been asking us for this, so I'm glad we could oblige, Alabama AL Ala. . For the uninitiated, Georgia GA Ga. , a bookmarklet is simply a snippet of code that you can drag and drop onto your browser's bookmarks toolbar (don't worry, there's no spyware or any arduous installation).

It can be found on the 'add a link' form as well as on the Fanpop FAQ, buy soma no prescription. I'm also posting it here for your convenience:



  1. Internet Explorer users: Right click on the 'Add to Fanpop' image below to add it

  2. Firefox and Safari users: Drag the 'Add to Fanpop' button below onto your browser bookmark bar


Add to Fanpop



Once the bookmarklet is present on your browser toolbar, you will be able to quickly and easily add anything you find during your web browsing excursions to Fanpop. When you find an article, Minnesota MN Minn. , video, Order soma overnight delivery, game, tool, website or anything else you want to share with other Fanpoppers, comprar soma baratos, just click on the 'Add to Fanpop' link in your browser bookmark bar. Ordering soma online without prescription, You can then add the link (login if necessary) to any of your subscribed spots and then continue on with your browsing. You'll be sent right back to the page you were looking at after you are done adding the link.

Deal and Events Buy soma no prescription, Based on user feedback, we now support two new content types when you add a link: deal and event. Additionally, Connecticut CT Conn. , deals and events can be optionally submitted with expiration dates (to help your fellow fanpoppers better know when they have to act by). Køb discount soma, It also makes sure users aren't penalized for links that have a time duration and that spots aren't cluttered with old and crusty links.

Message Notifications

Did you know that when you register for a Fanpop account you also get a Fanpop message box that can be used to communicate with other fans. (you can find it by clicking on 'my page' in the upper right corner when signed in), Massachusetts MA Mass. .

We've tweaked the messaging feature so that you now get notifications when someone adds you as a friend (isn't it nice to feel popular?) as well as when someone flags one of your links, buy soma no prescription. In the latter case, Order soma online legally, we want to give you a heads up in case you want to try to rectify the problem (broken link, duplicate, miscategorized) before a moderator attends to it, acheter soma.

Finally, Acheter soma bon marché, we've had multiple requests for Fanpop Badges so that folks can promote Fanpop on their blogs or personal sites. We've posted a couple of badges on the FAQ for our most addicted users (and we'll be working on more customizable badge at some point in the future).

That's it for now. Please keep the feedback and suggestions coming. We're all ears when it comes to the Fanpop audience.

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Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

I can't believe that Fanpop Buy soma cod, has been live to the world for a month now. Delaware DE Del. , It's been surreal watching the site grow with new users registering each day and fresh content being added all the time. We've been blown away by the attention we've gotten in the blogosphere (you can follow along with all the fun over at The Fanpop Spot, soma without prescription. Soma cod, I guess it's still a little weird for me to see Fanpop come up in headlines on my Google RSS Reader from sources that I've been reading for a long time now like TechCrunch, Mashable!, where to buy cheap soma, Soma generic, John Battelle's SearchBlog, Emily Chang's eHub, acquistare online soma, Order soma pills, and more. The best part is that everyone has been so positive in their reviews of the site, cheap soma tablets. But as flattering as it is to read complimentary articles about your company, it's even more important to hear great feedback from the users, buy soma cod. Buy soma, I get so excited seeing messages in my Fanpop inbox from excited users who gush about the site or share with us how addicted they are. It makes the team feel really encouraged because it means we did something right, order soma online. Soma cheap, And that's what we care most about at the end of the day, doing right by our users, order soma without prescription. Rhode Island RI R.I. , I constantly find myself checking our stats to see where our users are coming from. Buy soma cod, It's so fun to see people coming from all over the world. We've got fans joining from India to Scotland to Iceland to our neighbors up north in Canada, cheap soma pills. Soma pills, It's fascinating to see all the new and interesting links people are adding each day. I sincerely apologize if we've decreased your productivity at work because you've spent so much time surfing on Fanpop. But think of it this way, we've saved you time you would have had to spend Googling and clicking all over the place just to find the good stuff or waiting for that friend to e-mail you a link to that hilarious video clip that everyone's talking about. Now you can be the person who is the first to know, buy soma cod.

The team's been working hard on new features to make your user experience even better. Keep an eye out because they're popping up all the time. Thanks for all your feedback everyone, this site wouldn't be what it is without you. Thanks to fans like djottercreek, pianissimo, jessica, wangela, thesimpleleaf and all you other fans who have been contributing to making Fanpop fun and useful each day. We love hearing from you whether it's via our messaging system, contact page, or right here in our blog. Okay...back to work...

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Friday, August 11th, 2006

Order cheap soma online, Wow. That's all I can say. Not even live for a full week, Where to buy cheap soma, and I get contacted by Marshall Kirkpatrick of TechCrunch. It's almost surreal nowadays seeing our name show up in my Google Reader feeds and reading about us on places I check every day for the latest and greatest in the wacky web world. First it was MOMB, then Mashable, soma online kaufen, then eHub by Emily Chang, and now TechCrunch. Needless to say, I was nervous, but Marshall was totally a nice guy (who says the press are all sharks!), order cheap soma online. Order soma no prescription, It's been a crazy past two days since we were contacted by him through our site.

What we feared most was the onslaught of traffic. You should have seen us running around like chickens with our heads cut off. Could we handle the infamous "techcrunch effect", order soma pills. Order cheap soma online, Is all our code stable and ready for the masses. We were hoping to stay under the radar for at least a few weeks if not a month before anyone caught wind of us. So much for that, Cheapest soma in the world, because the wind just up and turned into a tornado on us instead. But we wanted to be prepared and we braced ourselves this afternoon after Marshall and I talked and he said the article was going up in 15 minutes at around 4pm PST. I felt sick, like I always do when I get really really nervous, ordering soma no prescription. The last time I felt this way was when I was about to get on stage to sing with my friend Jeff at our business school happy hour in front of a few hundred people at a bar in Palo Alto called Fanny and Alexander, order cheap soma online. I do not like that feeling. But the funny thing is that it always happens around something good. Buy cheap soma online, The crowd didn't throw tomatoes at us then, and they sure didn't this time either.

Cliff clicked refresh on the TechCrunch page and there it was for all the world and 100,000 feedburner subscribers to read:

Fanpop: An Easy, Fun Way to Share Topical Information

And so it begins (I've always wanted to say something dramatic like that). Order cheap soma online, Marshall had written a glowing article about Fanpop and I couldn't have asked for a better review. Soma for sale, It was funny because when we knew he was checking out the site, we were like anxious chefs in the kitchen of a restaurant with the food critic in the dining room. Don't serve him the mussels. Run out and get the scallops from the market down the street, Virginia VA Va. . AHHHH!!. But in the end, I think he was a happy camper because he ordered Guinea Pigs, order cheap soma online. Hmm...that juxtaposition wasn't very good. Comprar soma, Nevertheless, he liked us, he really really liked us. He really got the concept that we're not a social network, cheap soma online, but more about the content and community sharing and users discussing their favorite topics of interest. The social aspects are all there but the content is king with a spotlight on the very real people who are sharing it with everyone. Order cheap soma online, And we especially liked how he highlighted the ease-of-use and design, because Papa and I spent inordinate amounts of time trying to perfect the UI so it would be simple enough for our moms to use. Comprar soma baratos, Design is so important to both of us (yes we're Mac geeks). But we wanted to make sure the site was fun and usable for the masses, not just the early adopter techie folks. Marshall captured all of that in his post and we were ecstatic, order soma overnight delivery.

In a way this past week has been like throwing a house party. The last week was like the first hour after you told your guests the party started, order cheap soma online. No one ever really shows up on time. Buy soma, Maybe one or two people show up and you're afraid that the party is going to be a bomb. Then all of the sudden they start pouring in and the party can really get started. Well thanks to all you awesome users who came early, now the fun can really begin. So what are you waiting for, get on your cellphones and call or text your other friends. The party's just getting started...and I can't wait to see what happens next.

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Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

Buy soma without prescription, Fanpop hasn't quite been online for a week yet but already we've been privileged to have received some encouraging feedback from several blogs. Since we don't yet have a media relations page, Køb billige soma, I thought I'd highlight some of the coverage here.

Mashable's Pete Cashmore reviewed the site on Monday and had this to say:

"For some reason, I really like Fanpop, order soma. I think it's the instant accessibility for the average user - everyone's a fan of something, Cheapest soma prices, and it's a really simple way of expressing your personality by associating yourself with brands. What's more, the design and usability are impressive..."

"...I think Fanpop is pretty neat, New Mexico NM N.Mex. . I see this as another StumbleUpon - simple, fun, and easy to explain to the average Internet user."


On the whole, Pete really seemed to "get" the site, buy soma without prescription. Read the full review here. Maine ME Me. , Chris Durr of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer did a nice write-up today on the PI's new social networking blog. He writes about Fanpop in the context of MySpace stating, "Fanpop doesn't have that stale taste of a wannabe MySpace site." And notes that "what's unique about Fanpop is that it offers content as well as functioning as a fan site." (read the rest of the article here), soma online cheap.

Less flattering, For soma online, but nevertheless valid is John Pospisil's article about how the social networking space is getting overcrowded ("Social networking for all"). Pospisil's expresses concern that we are seeing bubble-like levels of startups in the space -- fanpop being included as part of this stampede -- and suggests that market saturation might be on the horizon:

Buy soma without prescription, "People (even young people) only have so many hours each day, and can only commit their time and energy to limited number of social networking platforms. And of course there are only a finite number of advertising dollars to go around to fund all of these sites."

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I don't disagree with him on the above. I would suggest that, Louisiana LA , our position is that Fanpop is *not* primarily a social networking platform. αγοράσετε soma έκπτωση, First and foremost, Fanpop's goal is to connect fans with the best content on the web through collaboration. The social network is a complementary part of the overall product offering, cheap soma tablets. At the end of the day, social networking exists on our site as an integrated part of the feature set, buy soma without prescription. However, Køb discount soma, you do not need to participate in the social network to take advantage of the rich content our site is steadily acquiring. Additionally, while advertising dollars in the "fat tail" of the advertising market may be highly saturated and highly competitive, buy soma cheap, we believe that the long tail will provide ample opportunities in overlooked niches that are dying to connect with user eyeballs. Comprare soma sconto, We've also had some nice Spanish and German language coverage as well. But our favorite blog post to date comes from one of our newest fans, Kimmiekins, ordering soma online. Kimmiekins writes:
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(read the original blog here)


Thank you Kimmiekins. It's passionate users like you that will help make Fanpop a place worth visiting and kicking back with fellow fans in the future. And seriously, user feedback is bar-none the best kind of feedback a fledgling website can hope for.

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Monday, August 7th, 2006

Cialis online kopen, Okay fine, so we haven't won an Academy Award or any award for that matter. But you have to understand that being able to launch this site to the public and finally let the world see what we've been pouring ourselves into for the past several months of our lives is a pretty big deal to us. And a lot of people deserve a ton of thanks and shout outs for supporting us and getting us to this momentous occasion. Think of this as the author's note at the end of completing and publishing a novel. Kjøpe cialis online, Without the following people, we wouldn't be here. Plus, this might be the closest we get to giving a speech, so here goes:

Dave: Wow, where do I begin, cialis online kopen. Well, first off I'd like to thank God for giving me this unique opportunity to create something so fun and cool with such a great group of guys. Thanks to my mom and sister for being so supportive and encouraging throughout my life and career, comprar cialis. To my roommates past and present, Dick and Eric for taking a risk on me when I had nothing but a business plan and a dream, and putting their money where my mouth is and Jeff for letting the company take over our apartment. Kjøpe cialis, To JimO for taking a chance on two of his goofball colleagues. To Jeremy at Yelp Cialis online kopen, , Josh at RobotCoop, and Seth at Meebo for their candid advice and inspiration for this rookie founder. To Tom, Al and Tom for your sage guidance and helpful introductions, I would recommend these guys to any startup looking for an investment. To my friend Dan, nombres para cialiss en frances, who was like the fifth member of our team, for being our dream user and voluntary QA Director. To my team, Cialis online without prescription, well, without whom none of this would have been possible. Cliff and Michael, thanks for putting up with my barking and badgering, I think I surpassed my quota on the bug list, cialis,china. Papa, who would have thunk that nine months after eating Vietnamese noodles at a hole in the wall brainstorming ideas that we'd be here today, cialis online kopen. I couldn't have asked for a better cubemate at Yahoo. seven years ago. And finally, For cialis online, special thanks to my dad who I wish was here to witness all this. He believed I could do great things and in turn made me believe in myself. Cialis online kopen, I'll always be your biggest fan ba.

Papa: I'd like to thank my wife for letting me quit my job which resulted in a cessation of my salary and our once high standard of living. I'd like to thank my children Koa and Kalea for putting up with eating beans and playing with cornhusk dolls. I'd like to thank my neighbors for their unsecured wireless networks, Koop korting cialis, your bandwidth was essential to our success*. Thanks to my parents and my sister who didn't freak out when I told them what I was doing (dad was actually quite supportive). Thank you to our investors, including my former Yahoo, cialis online kopen. compatriot Jim O'Connor. För cialis online, Thank you lawyers for not collecting on that fat bill we owe you just yet. Finally thanks to the Fanpop team. Elizabeth for interning with us despite the lack of perks. Cialis online kopen, Mike for joining up as our first employee and feeding us. Cliff for taking the big leap of faith early on and getting things rolling. And last, Acheter en ligne cialis, but not least, Dave Lu, for sticking with this despite the numerous misteps and mistarts. Womens cialis, Sure quitting our jobs was scary, but we knew 2006 would be special. And finally, thank you subterranean-asian-foodcourt-with-one-mexican-booth-next-to-belden-
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Michael: Like Papa, I need to thank my wife, cialis online kopen. Even before I knew I was joining these guys, she supported me in quitting my job and working on projects that I found interesting and invigorating. Michigan MI Mich., Through these last six months, she's been the financial support that enabled me to help build Fanpop. I'd also like to thank my parents for supporting me in this endeavor and for they continuous prays. Thanks to the loyal fans of Cooking For Engineers for being patient with me during the last couple months where I haven't had time to post any new articles. Cialis online kopen, I especially want to thank Harold for spending so much time on the site during the private beta and providing unimaginable amounts of excellent feedback. Also, West Virginia WV W.Va., Trevor for the early user experience and providing me with early words of encouragement. Of course, a big thank you to Dave, Wyoming WY Wyo., Papa, and Cliff for selling my on the idea and then deciding to hire me on. You guys rock. Finally, I'd like to thank God for bringing me into this group of cool and wonderful people.


Cliff: A million thank you's to my girlfriend, my awesome family and my extended family for being so supportive through the late nights and long weekends. To my priceless friends for helping us get there and for putting up with the stacks of servers everywhere, cialis online kopen. To the people who put their faith in us and backed us before we even had something going. To Jeff and his ‘mate for giving us a home. To all of our rat-loving, photography taking, backcountry hiking, tree snowboarding, jedi-and-hobbit-like beta members. To our hard-working lawyers and their staff. (Is this billable?) To open source software. To the great crew at Good. To the Jetta and biodiesel for getting us through the big ass commute.  A huge thanks to the incredible FP team: Dave, Dave, Michael and Elizabeth, and thanks to lady luck for hooking all of us up together.

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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

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Just nine months ago I was sitting in a hole-in-the-wall foodcourt downtown eating Vietnamese noodles with Papa lamenting corporate life. We were just so tired of dealing with the politics and bureaucracy. We decided then and there that we wanted to do more, soma. Tinkering with different ideas, we found one we liked focused on travel and we worked and worked to flesh it out while working our day jobs. Order soma online cheap, After some hurdles and losing our engineer, we decided to scrap the idea and start over again. Kansas KS Kans. , Those were the days when it was easy to give up and call it a day. We could say, "Hey, we gave it a shot", order soma online. But that wasn't good enough for either of us. So we went back to the drawing board. I loved working with Papa back at Yahoo, order soma online cheap. Nevada NV Nev. , when we were in the Yahoo. Finance group and it was fun coming up with product ideas with him again.

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Papa and I got to talking about the site and he was inspired created an Office fansite for the NBC comedy called dunderball.com. Köpa billiga soma, Together we learned more about online communities and fansites. We were onto something. Order soma online cheap, He was about to have his second child and was complaining about how there was no good way to find the best links out for new parents. We both felt like it was silly that people had to do redundant research and they weren't able to effectively share the content they found with others. It was such a pain going through Google searches only to keep finding lame sites and search optimized spammers, kjøpe billig soma. We thought to ourselves, wouldn't it be awesome if we could make thousands of these niche fansites. Comprar soma de descuento, Fansites and forums out there are so fragmented and quality is so inconsistent. We wanted to bring the whole experience together and put our own spin on it, order soma online cheap.

After much pain in trying to find a technical person to round out our team, we were about ready to throw in the towel again. We were sitting at the very same foodcourt months later lamenting once more, buy soma no prescription. Right then I got a call from an old family friend, Cliff, Soma generic, who had just gotten back from a trip to Thailand. I had mentioned our idea to him before his trip and after thinking about it on his trip, he called to tell us he was interested. Order soma online cheap, Next time I'm down and out, you know where to find me eating Vietnamese.

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Fortunately we settled on having "fan" be part of the name early on. Cialis uk, But fan- what. Kjøpe billig cialis, The possibilities were (sorta) endless. Each time we thought we had a winner, we'd rush over to instantdomainsearch.com and punch in the domain to see if it was still available. Fantabulous, Arizona AZ Ariz.. Taken. Fantropolis. Ditto, kjøpe billig cialis. Comprar cialis de descuento, Fantacular. Gone. Unbelievable.

If we uncovered a domain that was available, αγοράζουν φτηνά cialis, we'd jump up and down, high-five each other and celebrate like we'd won the state lottery no matter how bad the name. Kjøpe billig cialis, At various points in time the following contenders had us positively giddy: fanstations, fanslot, fanposts, fanpop, fanbase, fanhub, fanlinx, fanspy, fanbeat, fantown, fanedge, fanpage, fancast, fanpicks, fansof. αγοράζουν online cialis, For a little while I was particularly enamored by "fanglow". Dave Lu was partial to "fanfresh". Cliff liked "fanbase". Of course, Tennessee TN Tenn., after the initial euphoria, the lingering suckyness of these names would soak in (but only after we plunked down $10 to buy the domain).

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For a little while our site was called "Fansters". I don't think that name ever sat well with any of us but it was the best we could come up with.

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Fortunately, the earlier brainstorming sessions had left us with a stockpile of other semi-suitable company names, cheap cialis for sale. Fanhound was out of the question. Dave suggested recycling "fanpop" which we already owned. Is cialis legal in thailand, We were somewhat wary of it initially, but I had always been fond of the "pop" brand as we had nearly gone with "globepop" as the name for our initial venture.

We slept on it, but by the next day, fanpop was sounding better and better, kjøpe billig cialis. Dave had made a new logo which had us jazzed. But more importantly, the name was scoring well with the women-folk (which at the end of the day is what really matters).

So after some additional scrambling the site that was originally known as Fansters and then Fanspots was reborn as Fanpop.

So when someone asks rhetorically, 'what's in a name?' I can only respond by saying, "A hell of a lot. Kjøpe billig cialis, Stress, laughter, care, disappointment, frustration, joy, ridiculousness and anguish. It's all there".

In the end a name is no trivial thing. The name needs to be that succinct nugget that encapsulates the attitude, energy and spirit behind the company. The name needs to be fun, short, memorable and unique. And the name needs to be something you can proudly stand behind, kjøpe billig cialis. I think fanpop is more than qualified on all counts.

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When I tendered my resignation with Intel, I sent Dave an e-mail with my resume and mentioned that I'd be interesting in finding out how his company was doing. We met up for lunch (Sushi in Mountain View) where Dave explained his vision for a website called Fansters. I thought it was a pretty cool idea but also explained to him my intentions of concentrating on Cooking For Engineers. Cialis for sale, I was impressed, though, and, when I got home, explained the concept to my wife, Tina, αγοράσετε cialis. Osta cialis, While explaining it, I thought, "Hmmm... it doesn't sound nearly as interesting or as cool when I explain it...", but Tina's reaction was, "That's sounds pretty neat. I'd want to use a site like that!" So, Halvalla cialis apteekki, I told Dave I was still interested. After a couple weeks of going back and forth between deciding to work for myself or a start up, Dave arranged for me to meet one of his co-founders. Cliff was their lead (and only) developer who had been working on the project in his spare time and had just quit his job to work full-time on. He seemed to know what he was doing and I got excited talking to him about programming, Osta cialis. (It sounds strange, but it's true.) The company (now Fanpop, Pennsylvania PA Penn., Inc.) brought me on board with a schedule that would slowly ramp me up on Fanpop and off working on Cooking For Engineers as my full-time occupation. By the last week of March, I was so excited that I started on a regular schedule working full-time on Fanpop.

The experience of working professionally as a coder is a new one for me. Alaska AK, I have always programmed computers as a hobby (sometimes not doing it for over a year, but always picking it back up again) and occassionally for work, but never as my primary function. At Fanspots, I've managed to work with Dave, Papa (Dave Papandrew), acheter cialis bon marché, and Cliff to produce something - well, I don't know any other phrase to describe it, except, AMAZING. Billige cialis Apotheke, A lot has changed in my life in the last few months since I quit Intel, found Fanpop, and helped build what is going to be an awesome new way to consume content on the internet. Rediscovering my love of programming (solving interesting problems and building something useful) has been the beginning of "something" - and I'm not sure where that "something" is going lead to. So, as we start seeing users playing with Fanpop and getting sucked into the fun, I say again, "Hello world!".

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