Posts in Popfly

We never thought rubber duckies could get *this* big

For a while now, Popfly’s unofficial mascot has been a rather unassuming rubber duckie who rebels against the man with his rakish magenta hue. From my understanding, he spends his weeekends barhopping with college kids along the Ave. Anyway, my P...

PC World calls Popfly one of 25 websites to watch

This is always a nice way to start a week: If you haven't already discovered the world of mashups, Microsoft's Popfly is a good place to start. Mashups combine multiple Web-based sites or applications to produce all sorts of useful things, such as...

Come get your fresh, updated Popfly!

It hasn’t even been a month since we launched Popfly, but we already finished our first batch of updates for the site with a ton of new features! We have some notes up on our team blog about the new features; here’s an abbreviated list of my favor...

Rocky Horror, Lolz and Popfly: Together at Last

I just found a wonderfully amusing adaptation of Rocky Horror, as if scripted by lolcatz. Naturally, I decided to wrap it up with a Popfly mashup, which you can see through this link (toucha toucha toucha touch me!). Creating this Popfly mashup wa...

View.Source for the MySpace Generation

My boss, John, posted the following a couple hours ago: Well, we saw a lot of people at Maker Faire, but the biggest thing we did was the ducks. Sure we gave a lot of demos, but for every demo we gave we had four kids painting ducks. Here are some...

Five Invitations to Popfly

update: i’ve received five requests I’m going to give away invitations to Popfly to the first five people who email me or leave comments telling me what they want to do with the service. Seriously, it’s that easy: just leave me a note saying tha...

I am the token startup guy

Tom Barta, slayer of dragons, commenter with much to say, and all-around devilishly handsome chap had the following to say about me: This one looks the most realistic. Notice the token Startup Guy and Girl Programmer hidden among a flock of toke...

My gamerscore, courtesy of Popfly

When Slashdot strikes!

I discovered this morning that Slashdot just found Popfly. Hilarity promptly ensued. What follows are some of my favorite quotes from the Popfly-related posting on there, which garnered about 300 comments. Re: That’ll make you cringe from hobo sa...

Meet Popfly – Mashups for the rest of us

For the past few months, I’ve been toiling away in secret with a small team (only about 15 people, which is tiny by Microsoft standards) on a new project that we’re finally ready to unveil. I’m very excited to introduce you to Microsoft Popfly, a ...