http://blog.spotstory.com Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:13:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Do you have two sisters? Four friends? Seven brides for seven brothers? a.placebetween.us can help you find a meeting place. Earlier today, we updated a.placebetween.us to support an arbitrary number of addresses.Thanks to everyone who suggested this improvement. By far, it was the most popular request! http://blog.spotstory.com/2007/06/01/aplacebetweenacrowd/ I left my room last night headed for a night of gweeping in the free-WiFi lobby at my hotel (compared to $10/night in the room). In the elevator, I ran into Jason Hoffman from Joyent (Spotstory is a customer) and was promptly invited to a Joyent event at the Lucky ... http://blog.spotstory.com/2007/05/17/joyent-quid-pro-quo/ Right now, I'm in Portland, Oregon getting ready for RailsConf 2007. Even though I've been here for less than an hour, I've already had an encounter with Internet celebrities! If you follow the Ruby on Rails community (and who doesn't), you have probably seen the Ruby on Rails vs. Java commercial ... http://blog.spotstory.com/2007/05/16/helloooooooooo-railsconf/ a.placebetween.us is one of the 9 stories mentioned in today's edition of Yahoo! TV's video blog The 9.  Go on over and check it out! We're the last item mentioned, or you can click on the sidebar to skip right to our 10 seconds. Oh, and don't forget to ... http://blog.spotstory.com/2007/05/16/aplacebetweenus-on-yahoo-tvs-the-9-and-more/ Angela Gunn writes some kind words about Spotstory in today's USA TODAY Tech_Space.  We wholly approve of her take-charge attitude: Okay, people, I have a mission for our summer lolling-about-taking-photos time, which is fast approaching: I think we need to build out the wonderful Spotstory site past its New England roots. ... http://blog.spotstory.com/2007/05/15/spotstory-in-usatoday-tech_space/ As Matthew has been chronicling, the interest in a.placebetween.us has kept us wide-eyed and browser-refreshing all weekend. Tonight, a.placebetween.us received a minor update in response to all the great feedback. Highlights: Improved interface: The first version of the site used some of the default search controls offered by Google's Search API. This meant ... http://blog.spotstory.com/2007/05/14/anupdatefromus/ a.placebetween.us sure has kept us from having a case of the Mondays!Not only did we get to see it written up on a bunch of blogs, but now we've also found our way to the front page of del.icio.us, which is pretty awesome.I haven't been checking constantly, but we seemed ... http://blog.spotstory.com/2007/05/14/aplacebetweenus-on/ We've had a good weekend as far as getting mentions on the Interwebs are concerned!Spotstory has appeared on StumbleUpon, and  a.placebetween.us has as well.a.placebetween.us has also received a very nice mention on Web Worker Daily.  Google Maps Mania has also picked up the news. Updatea.placebetween.us gets written up by lifehack.org! http://blog.spotstory.com/2007/05/13/weekend-mentions-roundup/ Spotstory is a bootstrapped company.  This means that we spend a lot of time working out of our homes, as well as at coffee shops, bakeries, and what have you.Early on, Aron and I often needed to find meeting places that were midway between our houses.  Or, midway between us and some ... http://blog.spotstory.com/2007/05/10/introducing-aplacebetweenus/ In the spirit of further opening communication, we've removed comment moderation from the blog.People have mentioned they don't like waiting for their comments to appear.  Some have also complained about having to register just to leave a comment.  We can understand how all of that can put a damper on ... http://blog.spotstory.com/2007/05/09/blog-comments-now-unmoderated/