Max Beatty

As you might expect, when you are an investor in a new com­pany you are privy to fea­tures unbe­knownst to the pub­lic. AJ Vayn­er­chuk, part­ner at Vayn­er­me­dia, tweeted some­thing the other day that got me dig­ging into his site’s source code. What I found was a sim­ple way to dis­play your lat­est photo from DailyBooth.com!

An avatar or pro­file pic­ture is one of the first things peo­ple rec­og­nize and allows them to imme­di­ately estab­lish some sort of con­nec­tion with you. It acts like your per­sonal logo to brand who you are. Whether it’s your AIM buddy icon, Face­book pro­file pic­ture, or Twit­ter avatar, it should be the most unique thing […]

I found out about a new auc­tion site called Bid­Fire after they started fol­low­ing me on Twit­ter. I’m always heed­ful to sites that appear to be offer­ing high end elec­tron­ics for next to noth­ing, but I went ahead and checked it out any­ways. After a lit­tle obser­va­tion it was easy to fig­ure out where they […]

On Fri­day, I finally got back to Bloom­ing­ton to pick up a stack of cups with my Lit­tle 500 logo from Piz­zaX (for­merly Pizza Express) that they had set aside just for me and wanted to thank them pub­licly for their small effort that meant a lot to me.

Twit­ter is renowned for allow­ing its users to cre­ate and define some of its fea­tures (i.e. @replies, #hash­tags, retweets). The Favorites fea­ture is one of the older ones on Twit­ter, but it doesn’t get a lot of pub­lic­ity. To see your favorites go to http://twitter.com/favorites and to see other users’ favorites go to http://twitter.com/username/favorites. You’ll […]