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John Montgomery's Weblog
Though we decommissioned Popfly last Monday, Ben Anderson from the (former) Popfly team worked his...
Date: 08/26/2009
This post started as a collection of thoughts on the AP’s decisions around how they want their...
Date: 07/26/2009
Gidget, the chihuahua best known for her role as the Taco Bell dog, has died. While sad news (I grew...
Date: 07/23/2009
When I announced that we were closing down Popfly, one of the biggest questions I got was how users...
Date: 07/22/2009
A couple of years ago, a group of us decided to try something different: to create an online service...
Date: 07/18/2009
As part of our remodel, considerable work was done on the front porch. Unfortunately, that work...
Date: 09/01/2008
Popfly, which we opened to the public last fall as a web mashup tool, has come a long way. Over the...
Date: 08/29/2008
About a month ago my wife and I attended the Seattle Luxury Chocolate Salon. With a name like that,...
Date: 08/16/2008
A customer noted yesterday that the patch for "big VS" (that is, Visual Studio 2008...
Date: 08/14/2008
Have you created a really cool Popfly project? If so, we want to hear from you! Click here to send...
Date: 07/21/2008
Created by students. AlfredTh has the list. Technorati Tags: Popfly, Casual Games, Students
Date: 07/21/2008
A coworker who is teaching Popfly to his daughter just asked me, I'm working with my daughter who is...
Date: 07/19/2008
Plumbing is my least favorite home improvement task. Today I tried to repair the drain in my mom's...
Date: 07/08/2008
The toilet in the bathroom I was using in my mom's house was running. Not a...
Date: 07/08/2008
When Pandora launched it garnered a lot of coverage in the mainstream press. I tried it then and...
Date: 07/04/2008
When traveling, I often like to listen to music. Unfortunately my choice of music tends to be...
Date: 07/04/2008
Every time I'm out visiting my mom, I cook a few times. I'm not sure why, I just do. This time I...
Date: 07/04/2008
I'm an RSS Bandit user. I have been for years -- before I knew it was written by Dare Obasanjo. He...
Date: 07/01/2008
One of my friends, and a former teammate, is Aaron Brethorst. For the longest time I thought of him...
Date: 06/30/2008
In this short screencast, I'll show you how to take a Popfly application (in this case, a mashup)...
Date: 06/17/2008
The neat thing about working on a team that updates its product every 4-5 weeks is that every 4-5...
Date: 06/13/2008
Several people have asked me, "Why would we do this?" They imply that there are so many...
Date: 05/02/2008
This morning we’re launching an alpha of the Popfly Game Creator (https://www.popfly.com), a...
Date: 04/30/2008
I'll be darned. Daniele Muscetta has Popfly running on Moonlight. Technorati Tags: Popfly, Virtual...
Date: 04/11/2008
And this is an interview question how?
Date: 04/10/2008
A conversation on Twitter got me thinking. That's kind of rare. Thinking, I mean. At least for me....
Date: 03/28/2008
Earlier in the week we quietly updated Popfly. Why quietly? Because we really didn't add any new...
Date: 03/27/2008
Popfly, a mashup tool, depends on three things: data that is simple to access programmatically,...
Date: 03/20/2008
I got hooked on plugging sites into Alexa a couple of nights ago, and started to see some patterns....
Date: 02/28/2008
Today Popfly was nominated for a Webware 100 award. As you can see on the Popfly team blog, this...
Date: 02/25/2008
One of the things that Popfly does well is take photos from one place (e.g. Flickr, Live Image...
Date: 02/25/2008
I don't mean this metaphorically, nor do I mean that the food in the oven is on fire. I mean, "The...
Date: 01/27/2008
Adam Nathan created a pretty cool Popfly gadget the other day. You can see it on this very blog if...
Date: 01/22/2008
When is the right time to take down Christmas decorations? Growing up, my parents typically did it...
Date: 01/15/2008
One of the scenarios a lot of Popfly customers have tried is to create a block. Display blocks have...
Date: 01/14/2008
Passing VS projects around is a common-enough task. I don't mean those times when you're trying to...
Date: 01/14/2008
I start every day with a list of things I need to do. Generally, this lists comprises a collection...
Date: 01/13/2008
With today's update to Popfly, comes a new Popfly screencast. Or kind of a screencast. It turns out...
Date: 01/09/2008
I predict that 2008 will have between 300 and 400 days. Most if not all will end in the letter "y."...
Date: 01/03/2008
One of the projects I've taken on for our home remodel was building the downstairs linen cabinet --...
Date: 01/01/2008
After many ruminations and a second drive of the Mazda3, I changed my mind, but not for a reason I...
Date: 01/01/2008
For years I was a happy Mazda Miata owner. Though I bought it when I lived in California (total days...
Date: 12/28/2007
This morning, PC World posted a story about the top 25 most innovative products of 2007 and Popfly...
Date: 12/28/2007
As a follow-on to the last screencast (about how to do a screencast), I've created a screencast that...
Date: 10/31/2007