I am very excited to announce that Foodspotting has acquired Eat.ly I am extremely proud of this sandbox project created by my co-founders and friends Mike Singleton, Sam Huleatt, and Sam Brown Below is the final goodbye page we posted on Eat.ly notifying our users on 12/17/2010 We began working on Eat.ly in the fall of 2009 as …
Tags: Eat.ly, Foodspotting, Foursquare, Mike Singleton, Sam Brown, Sam HuleattAt the end of last year a group of friends came together to create a web service we all wanted to use called Eat.ly – a quick way to track and share food photos on the web via email. The idea was born based on the observation that most people can’t remember what they had …
Tags: Eat.ly, Eric Friedman, Mike Singleton, Sam Brown, Sam HuleattI gave a talk this week at the Lean Startup Meetup which was a great exercise to wrap my head around my Eat.ly project that I have been working on with our team over the past few months. It ended up being a Q&A in real time but I went through building a deck and …
Tags: Business, Eat.ly, Lean Startup, Lean Startup MeetupIt is now cheaper than ever to start and run a web based project. I refer to these sites as too small to fail. They are small projects. They are learning projects. I call them sandbox projects. Most importantely, they are projects that help and inform everything you do and look at in the future. …
Tags: AutoMagicLabs, Eat.ly, Eatly, engineyard, Mike Singleton, Ruby on Rails, Sam Brown, Sam HuleattBehavior generated content is the by product, or data exhaust(as I like to call it), or using a product or service the way you normally would only now some data is collected in the background. As my friend Mike Singleton’s article points out this activity is being captured by services like Foursquare (USV is an …
Tags: Behavior Generated Content, BGC, Eat.ly, Foursquare, Mike Singleton, Sam Huleatt