Yesterday we officially released our newest project over at Photojojo, the Time Capsule.
Today we hit 2,000 sign-ups.
When Photojojo launched almost two years ago, it took us 45 days to reach 4,000 subscribers. That was good. Seeing Time Capsule hit 2,000 in a tiny fraction of that time is really good.
If you’re new to the Time Capsule, I encourage you to check out the about page. As we create more and more media — photos, blog posts, twitters, tumblrs, etc. — services that can intelligently sift through that data and find you the stuff that matters most become incredibly useful. I think we’ll be doing more with this.
This person will be helping with our newsletter, an upcoming book, and all sorts of other awesome photography-related projects. They’ll learn all about spreading ideas online, and building products, etc.
It’s gonna be a really cool position, and I’m hoping to find someone awesome that can grow with us.
Please spread the word to anyone in San Francisco who might be interested or might know someone who is.
Susan put this together to go with Photojojo’s Time-Lapse Photography Guide from 30GB worth of images I’d been saving from the Bryant Park webcam every 10 minutes for the past year and a half.
You can see the park go from ice skating rink, to outdoor movie theater, to fashion show, to outdoor broadway theater. It’s quite beautiful.
Here’s a quick video made from photos taken at the Photojojo photo booth when we held bARTer (our awesome art auction/party) at Etsy last month. Watching it makes me happy, as there are a lot of awesome NYC peeps featured.
My roommates and I threw an art party last night that we call bARTer.
It’s part art-exchange, part game night, and part party.
Here’s how it works:
You bring a piece of art with you to the party. It can be anything, but preferably something you made. You’ll get points depending on what you bring.
Throughout the night, you can run or participate in games to win more points. Games can take any form. (Wii tennis tournament, math problem solving, chopstick challenges, build the tallest structure you can in 5 minutes using nothing but spaghetti and gum, etc.)
At the end of the night, you use the points you’ve won to bid on all the art that people brought.
Everyone walks home with a new piece of art!
It was a blast, and we hope to do it again soon! (We also hope others will host their own bARTer events.)
Check out the photos from the night (Hilary and I set up a Flickr booth where people could take their own photos), the full rules, and email if you want to come to the next one at House 2.0.
Tomorrow’s PodCampNYC in at the New Yorker hotel. With over 1,000 registered attendees, it’s sure to be interesting. I’ll be a judge for Eric Skiff’s “HalfBaked.com - Entrepreneurial Improv Theatre”, modeled after the HalfBaked.com session I ran at BarCampNYC, which in turn was modeled after the session Dave McClure, Paul Rademacher, and James Levine ran at FooCamp. Come say hi!
At 1pm tomorrow, I’m heading over to Central Park for an awesome photo scavenger hunt my friend Carson is organizing. We start in Central Park, and take pictures and solve clues until we end in Brooklyn at 5pm with slideshow, food, and cheer. Get more info and join up!
Photojojo turned 1 year old on April 1st and I’m pleased as punch to report that we’ve now surpassed 68,000 email and RSS subscribers to our kick-ass photography newsletter. Whew!
And according to Technorati, we’re currently ranked #549 out of all blogs. This stuff is pretty volatile, and I was psyched when we broke the top 1,000 blogs a couple months ago. Considering the fact that there are a bajillion blogs, we publish relatively rarely (just twice a week), and we’re not even technically a blog, it’s pretty awesome.
This month also marks the first where where I’m going to be moving the majority of newsletter writing work to others. I’ll still be editing and selecting stories, but my goal is to do less of the writing and focus more on other aspects of the business.
I’m really excited for the opportunity to focus on some Photojojo projects that have been in the slow cooker for a while now, as well as a couple non-Photojojo projects I’ve underway.
I had coffee this week with Michael Galpert, COO of Photogami. Their parent company, Worth1000 runs the largest photoshop contest site on the net, and Photogami is their play to get into printing (on paper, on canvas, on plastic, whatever you want.) Kind of like QOOP, they’ll also let third parties plug into their architecture. Michael is working to convince printers to work with them on some really unique products. We’ll be hanging out at PMA next week.
This is part of a series where I take 30 second videos of interesting people I meet. Here are the rest.
I haven’t blogged about Photojojo in a while and figured I owed a quick update…
Subscriber growth has been really healthy. We hit 4,000 subs after the first 45 days, 10,000 after the first 100 days, and we’re now at 19,000+ subscribers at 180 days in.
People seem to like what we’re doing: Our Panorama Planets piece hit Digg last month, and Jason Kottke dished some lovin’ on our photo cans tutorial yesterday. (Check out what others have been saying on our brand-spankin new Press Page.)
We’ve been shipping hundreds of our Astounding Magnetic Photo Rope all around the country and the world. We’re hard at work finding and creating awesome new photo products. Expect more here soon!
1) I’m a guest panelist for this season’s Hey, Hot Shot, a really cool photography competition run by the jen bekman gallery. The submission deadline’s tonight at 6, so I probably should have posted earlier!
2) My pals Jake and Zach of Connected Ventures sold a 51% stake of their company to Barry Diller. Congrats, guys!
This Monday, The Wall Street Journal ran a short blurb on Photojojo in their Blog Watch column. (Subscription required.) We’ve also been in the Florida Times-Union and on an ABC affiliate in Toledo, Ohio. Neat!
The 7th New York City Photobloggers event will take place at 6:30pm tonight at the Apple Store SoHo. I’ll be talking about Photojojo for about 10 minutes and giving away a couple things.
We want people who want to write for us, blog for us, and help us think of amazing new DIY projects for the 4,000 subscribers that have joined since we launched a month and a half ago. Interested? Know someone who might be? Please get in touch!
His latest project is Photojojo. If you like photography, you will like Photojojo.
Before Photojojo, he was a founder of The Daily Jolt, an online community on 100 college campuses, helped create a non-profit called ChangeThis with Seth Godin, and brought the technology un-conference BarCamp to NYC. He also started a weekly casual coworking session called Jelly.
And he's consulted for companies such as Pearson, Apple, and Creative Good and co-authored The Big Moo, a WSJ best-seller, with Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell, Guy Kawasaki, Tom Peters, and others.
Yesterday we officially released our newest project over at Photojojo, the Time Capsule.
Tomorrow’s 
