Chirp presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo Launch Pad

Chirp Launches our Desktop App

This afternoon we're announcing the launch of our desktop app from Chirp. We took everything we learned from the full screen experience and made it into a tight little viewing screen that you can have running on your screen while you're doing other stuff.



It's like watching a fast slideshow, or watching your friends go by the from the seat of a subway car. I keep seeing it out the corner of my eye, like watching a channel of your friends on tv. Constantly updated with the newest, and some great archival surprises.

Then you can stop it and begin to get more engaged in the object that caught your eye. Share it via email or Facebook, see the meta information about it, who it's from, what others have said about it, comment on it yourself. Just a real nice way to grab all this stuff, stuff you care about but would never unearth. Then go back to the show without missing a beat. Make your own damn social network, if you will.



The download is Windows only (for today). I hope you'll give it a try and tell me what you think.

Drew Domkus interviews me about chirpscreen on N3RD M0M3NT

Listen to a meandering journey with two old online friends. Lots of chirp goodness and plenty of jabber about dogs, Burning Man, and springtime.

Drew Domkus broadcasts n3rd m0m3nt in his free time when he isn't broadcasting his popular podcast The Dawn and Drew Show with his lovely and talented wife Dawn Micelli.

Anil Dash at SXSW BattleDecks 2008

I was honored to be the MC for this debauchery known as BattleDecks at this year's South by Southwest Interactive Festival. Mule Design and Get Satisfaction should be commended for the creative and organizational hutzpa to make this happen. In this Rocketboom video Anil Dash from Six Apart returns from a second introduction and round of applause (the first time it wasn't enthusiastic enough). He nails the presentation and walks away with the trophy.

It's a great time here in Austin, with friendly, progressive people and lots and lots of good music.

Turntable Chirp

chirpscreen public beta launches - and some early press

Woo Hoo. It is with great excitement and warm fuzziness that we announce the public beta of chirpscreen this morning. What a ride. What a fun team of real humans.

Here is the early coverage:

Wired: Chirpscreen Helps You Watch Over your Social Networks
TechCrunch: Chirp Launches Its Social Screen Saver In Beta
TechConfidential: Chirp's Eve Phillips weaves networks into the humble screen-saver
Venture Beat: Chirp, a screensaver that shows you what’s happening on your social network

WSJ Covers I Love My Dog Community

This is a nice story about the community of dog lovers we built at MarketTools.

Visualizing Situations

Earlier in the year, after animated evenings at Moose's, I'd walk with my friends up Grant Street in North Beach and would point out a storefront that I thought would be a great place to hang out and do creative things with smart people. A bunch of situations and people converged and it happened. Well not in North Beach, but deep in the Mission - and the work is a different kind of work than I saw in the temporary picture. It's all better than the original image. All of it.


I've read that this experience can be described as: you won't know something when it arrives if you don't know what it looks like.

So, I am trying to create lots of pictures with the new, new reality and see what comes next.

See: Shakti Gawain, David Allen

The Chirp Blog - Why We Founded Chirp

We tried to put down in words why we started chirp.

Eve Phillips, Chirp CEO on the town

Here's Eve Phillips, our celebrated Chirp Interactive CEO, on the town spreading the good news.