Photojojo and Jelly on Pop17!

Sarah Austin did an interview with me for Pop17 (Thanks, Jamie!) when I was at speaking at PSFK SF a couple weeks ago, and it just went up! I talk about Photojojo and Jelly.

p.s. Here’s a post by Jeannie on the panel we did on Core77.

When We Messed up Mother’s Day

I have a post up on Rohit Bhargava’s site, The Personality Project, about how we messed up last Mother’s Day. I’ve gotten good feedback on it, but reading it still gives me the chills.

Thanks to Jinal Shah for getting me involved!

Link: I messed up

It’s Photojojo Photo Month at Instructables!

Photojojo’s teamed up with our friends at Instructables to bring you Photojojo Photo Month this month. Enter your photo project or tutorial to win over $100,000* in prizes!

We’re looking to do more of these kinds of cross promotions and deals at Photojojo, so if you’ve got ideas for things we should do with you or your company, let us know.

Link: Photojojo Photo Month

* We use the the term "$100,000″ loosely here to mean “100,000 yen”, or “USD$1,000″. Still quite a lot, mind you.

Photojojo Time Capsule hits 2,000 Sign-ups

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.

Thanks to everyone who’s sent in kind words via email and via twitter. And extra thanks to the folks who blogged it early: Paul Stamatiou, Hilary, Tina at SwissMiss, Natalie Zee at Craft:, Heather Champ on the Flickr Blog, and Kareem Mayan. You guys are awesome!

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.

Link: Photojojo’s Time Capsule

Some (Photojojo) foreshadowing….

We’ve been working on something fun & new at Photojojo. You’ll hear about it in our newsletter on Monday!

Photojojo is Hiring a Bad Ass Writer in San Francisco

We’re hiring a full-time writer/editor/DIYer in San Francisco.

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.

Link: Photojojo is hiring a Bad Ass Writer/Editor/DIYer (San Francisco)

Interview with me on Behance

Heather just posted a super-nice interview with me on Photojojo, Jelly, and marketing to Behance. Thanks, Heather!

Link: Behance: Amit Gupta

Awesome Time-Lapse Video of Bryant Park

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.

Digg the tutorial or Watch the video in HD (be sure to click full-screen!)

Add WiFi to any Digital Camera

I’ve been sworn to secrecy about it, but I’ve been using it for the past year, and it’s AWESOME.

Eye-Fi is new. It adds wifi to any digital camera.

Your photos get uploaded straight to Flickr, AND downloaded to your computer when it’s next online. $99 gets you 2GB of SD storage and antenna-free, cable-free, subscription fee-free wifi heaven.

Buy it now at the Photojojojo store! (We’re psyched to be the first to ship it.)

UPDATE: We’re gonna offer an SD to CF card adapter that makes it work with any camera that takes CF cards. Probably next week. (We’re testing.)

Recent Photojojo Press

The Sunday travel section of the Washington Post today is a special photo issue and mentions Photojojo! (closeup) “Photojojo… has ideas for a zillion and two DIY projects.”

(We were also recently in The Cincinnati Enquirer and The Flickr Blog — “if you haven’t subscribed to this eNewsletter, you’re missing out” — Heather Champ) And some of our recent pieces were on the Digg homepage (1, 2), project.ioni.st, Lifehacker, Macworld, Craft, Apartment Therapy – “Photojojo, our favorite source for photo fun”, and Wired. WHEW!

bARTer + Etsy on August 24th

We’re having our second bARTer art swap party on Friday, August 24th. This time around we’ll be throwing it with Etsy at their Etsy Labs collaborative workshop space in Brooklyn.

Last time was a blast, so we hope you can make it!

Space is limited, check out the rules and RSVP on the Etsy blog.

Wanted: Part-time Writer, Actionscript Developer, and a NYC apt for a friend

Job opening: Photojojo is looking for an amazing part-time writer and editor for our much-loved newsletter. If you or someone you know is an excellent writer and loves photography and DIY, please get in touch! (Location unimportant.)

Freelance opportunity: Photojojo is also looking for an ActionScript wizard to help with a small and fun development project. Contact me.

Apartment wanted: My pal Dan Lurie is a designer looking for a place to live in NYC. He writes for TUAW and Download Squad and starts school in the city in the Fall.

Photojojo Hits 100,000 Subscribers

102,000, to be more exact.

New subscriber growth at Photojojo continues to accelerate. It’s taken us 1 year and 3 months to get to this point, and we’ve spent $0 on advertising and marketing. It’s all thanks to really enthusiastic readers who blog about us, tell their friends about us, and help spread the word. Thank you!

As an aside, when Daily Candy was acquired by Bob Pittman, they were about 3 years in and had 100,000 subscribers to their daily email list (we’re twice a week.)

Another aside: Two friends have started their own email newsletters in the past couple months, and I’m a fan of both: Nicole Davis’ startup Brooklyn Based for all your Brooklyn-dwelling friends, and Scott Hurff’s excellent Fuego for the classy men in your life.

Photojojo on 37Signals Blog!

I was stoked to see our new forum design pop up on the 37signals blog this afternoon. The post highlights the progress-bar like interface I designed to give people an at-a-glance look at the amount of activity in a particular forum thread. (Thanks to Luke for the heads up!)

The UI’s still under development, but I think it’s a lot better than most other forums so far. And Susan’s done a phenomenal job getting our forum software to work with this design, and doing the amazing Flickr-integration that makes registration a breeze.

Also got this great note from a reader who unsubscribed from the newsletter today.