Our first iphone app was rejected by Apple — but we’re resubmitting new one this week!

As chance would have it, our first-ever submission to Apple was rejected earlier last week, and we are now wrapping up the fixes (and taking the opportunity to throw in some new details) before re-submission.  All in all, a valuable, efficient application to share your life with the groups in your life.  One of my favorite features: being able to select ‘Family’, take a photo of a family member or event, and the rest (uploading to the family group and emailing everyone in that group) happens automatically for me.  This feature alone is fantastic!  Here’s a snapshot:

rrripple iphone application screenshot

This week, we released version 1594 to rrripple! Lots of improvements.

Version 1594 improves on several bugs sent in from our great early user base — thank you everyone! Next up: performance enhancements on our submission of our iPhone app!  You guys are going to love the app.

We’re Launching Today at TechCrunch50! Go rrripple!

For those who want to try our group-sharing application (in Beta), please go to: rrripple.com and use the following invite code: tc50party

We’re soft-launching @rrripple rrright now!

One remaining Mac ‘post/upload’ bug to take care of, and then we’re off to the races! We’ve been working round the clock (literally) over the past week, hammering out the remaining critical (blocker) bugs that we need to disarm before proceeding to letting our first users in. We’re now hours away. I hope you enjoy our creation: a new way to share with groups, privately.

Michael Pritchard’s water filter turns filthy water drinkable (TED)

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/michael_pritchard_invents_a_water_filter.html

Fantastic! Entrepreneurship at its best.

@rrripple launching at TechCrunch50

I am happy to announce that we will be part of the TechCrunch 50 demo pit companies on either September 14th or 15th, 2009.  We are looking forward to being part of this yearly conference, and will provide audience members with an invitation code to be an early tester of our upcoming group sharing product.

Are you ready for the Windy City?

I’m personally very excited to see the next release of rrripple.com tomorrow afternoon — codenamed Chicago (v0.9.6).  Thanks to your generous support, feedback and a ton of work from our global team, we bring rrripple one step closer to our September 1st Beta release!

I’ve also had the pleasure to play with our v.3 of our iPhone application, and it’s coming along beautifully.  Private, group sharing is coming for sure.  And it looks and feels wonderful.

Moscow releases today!

I’m personally looking forward to today’s release (code named Moscow) at 12pm PDT. Today’s release includes some of the following:

• Content tags
• Status bar updates
• First glimpse of our iPhone application
• Admin Access Controls
• Bug fixes

Launch time: 12pm PDT.  If you’ve already been on rrripple, make sure to clear your cache before trying out new build.  Just a tip. 

Groups, Privacy & Why rrripple?

Since May of 2008, a mighty group of colleagues and friends have come together to dream big around the idea of group sharing.  How can we take group sharing to its next level in terms of functionality, interconnectedness to social media applications, privacy and next-generation UI?  We’ve spent a long time thinking through ways in which we share with groups — and are now beginning the alpha launch of rrripple.com to share with you the results of our thinking and hard work.

This is just the beginning of a constant conversation around the dream of private, group sharing, and we welcome your feedback, input and co-dreams.

To try out a new way of group sharing, visit rrripple.com.

mypressi TWIST gives espresso addicts an easier way to indulge

I think our patent attorney is part of this group… fascinating.

You know the story — your daily craving for a shot of espresso hits right around 7:30AM local time, and if you don’t have it in your grasp by 0800 hours, you’re likely visiting the slammer for at least a day or two for barista battery. In a beautiful effort to keep addicts far away from prisons and ever closer to their productivity machines, Espressi has unveiled the mypressi TWIST, which is described as a truly portable espresso maker that delivers top-notch goods without the wait. The secret to the one-pound device is the pneumatic engine that provides constant pressure throughout the extraction cycle, and we’re told that a single CO2 cartridge can provide around eight shots. It’ll hit American shores this fall for $129 — ’til then, it’s on you to keep a local shop on retainer.

reference

Seth Godin Presents Tribes (Video)

7 Powerful Steps to Overcoming Resistance and Actually Getting Stuff Done

Article here

“There are a slew of popular books and systems, from favorites of mine such as Getting Things Done to the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to the Now Habit and more, all designed to get us more productive and effective…”

Must see video!

Handpresso

Article here.

Mr. Bronson, check out this cool gadget:

2007 Crunchies: The Winners (From TechCrunch)

This is a helpful list of the 2007 Crunchies winners.  One can learn a great deal by paying attention to the details of why these companies made it to this winning list.  Some won by logical business models, others by calm, intuitive design.  All won by being extremely thoughtful. What characteristics do you feel were important too?

Benchmark Bets on Ruby on Rails With $3.5 Million Investment in Engine Yard

For Jeff, Rich

Article here

“Is Ruby on Rails the next Java? Benchmark Capital thinks so. It just invested $3.5 million in Engine Yard, taking its entire series A round. Ruby on Rails is an increasingly popular Web application programming environment because it is dead-simple, open-source and very fast to develop on. The downside is that it is not always as robust as more mature frameworks such as Java….”

The End of Snail Mail? What do you think?

Click here for Engadget article

Yahoo Media Player – Embed Code (Java)

Check out the instructions here

The Yahoo! Media Player enhances your web site or blog by creating an embedded player for each audio link. All the links can be played with one click, turning the page into a playlist. This is done by adding our JavaScript to your page.

Bill Gates’ Last Day at Microsoft – Video

Casio’s EXILIM Pro EX-F1: 1,200 FPS, 60-Shots-per-Second

Wow. Can you imagine what’s next?  What this technology basically is allowing ANY photographer who snaps away at this camera to choose THE picture that looks best, without having to worry about whether or not they captured the photo on their own reflex.  What do you think?