 20070530 Vimeo is hiring.
I'm expanding the product design team at Vimeo.I'm considering people with mid to infinite skill levels, but ultimately I'm most in need of people who know the difference between style and design, work well without guidance and have forward-thinking ideas of their own. You will be responsible for conceiving and designing new functionality, and will work side by side with teams of developers to execute. It's preferable that you know XHTML/CSS/Flash, and that you're able to work in our New York office. Please email me your URLs. What If Apple Is Bad for Design?
In this verbose article, I found an interesting simile that I'm eager to verify:Basically the iPhone is a 1996 Ford Taurus — that car in which all design problems, from logo to windscreen, were solved with an Illustrator-stretched oval.
Scott wrote a hilarious document for potential recruits explaining why it's better to work for his company over Google.
20070524
10MPH, a documentary about 3 people crossing the US on Segways.
20070523
Starcraft 2
The cinematic trailer is incredible.
Great remix
Junior Boys - In The Morning (Hot Chip Remix)
Oregon Trail online via Paul Mayne.
20070522
Listening to Yeasayer
Yeasayer - 2080 via dalas.
While traveling this weekend, I realized that I group most places into three different categories:
20070518
A. Centers of the world, B. not centers of the world, C. or where nowhere else matters.
Watch the pilot for Flight of the Conchords, which includes Eugene Mirman and my friend Kristen Schaal.
20070517
Will premiere on HBO June 17 at 10:30pm EDT. via Matt.
Guess the origin of this pullquote:
20070516
They are all well-scrubbed and ridiculously good-looking ... All of this good fortune, obviously, makes Van Veen and his partners despicable.I incorrectly guessed Gawker. Here's the answer.
Jessica Cameron, aka Duplo, created a blog to document her summer internship with Vimeo.
Watch the 4-hour American Experience/Frontline special on Mormons. I skipped This American Life archives, and instead listened to the audio of this program while I worked yesterday.
Their history is incredible.
Objects of Desire. I still have an Atari 2600.
Ricky Gervais Tickets!!!
I have two for sale at face value!This Saturday, May 19, at MSG. Section 201, aisle A, seats 16 and 17. $70 each. Email me at zklein@gmail.com ASAP.
Badass commercial. via Chad.
A Beloved Mag's Painful Lessons:
20070510
20070509
There is something heartbreakingly familiar, something very "After School Special," in Sassy's saga. Smart young outsiders start something, do a bang-up job—and remain marginalized by the mainstream. Sassy taught a difficult lesson that remains valid: What's culturally significant can be lousy business, and often requires a pivot from a property's founding vision to be successful.
Robert Hodgin's Magnetosphere visualization for iTunes is beautiful.
Robert also Vimeos as the user Flight404. See more of his visuals there.
The Patagonia DIY via Court. Ideal uses include "Post Watersports, Around Town, Backyard Lounging and Pre/Post Yoga."
The Fort Wayne News-Sentinel now integrates Vimeo online. Example.
20070507
20070502
Really really cool. Need Nerd Help
Looking for a solid Subversion extension for Dreamweaver. Just found SVN4DW.
Google Web History launched today. Makes me kinda nervous.
20070501
Listening to Dr. Dog
Dr. Dog - Ain't it Strange via Forrest.
My weekend summed up by a few quick videos
Quizzing Esther Dyson at EconSM conferenceCoachella 2007, Trance Tent Beat Drop Rock climbing at Joshua Tree National Park |
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 Hi, I'm Zach. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Wake Forest. After college, I moved to Manhattan to get serious about a company I ran with friends. We sold it to Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in 2006. I just wrapped up with a project I co-founded called Vimeo and left CV to focus on being a twenty-five year old. I have another blog called Copy and Taste, where I post about learning to cook. I live in Brooklyn now.  Del.icio.us My Flickr Me on Flickr Last.fm Linked in MySpace Netflix History Vimeo  Amir Blumenfeld Chris Bodenner Mareen Fischinger Fort Wayne Observed Nick Gray Hype Machine Jake and Amir Jakob Lodwick Oh My Rockness Jonathan Marcus Youngna Park Megan Scheminske Eliot Shepard Shorpy Signal vs. Noise Alex Soth Stereogum Ricky Van Veen Khoi Vinh Eugene Wyatt  June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007  Postal Skype SMS (via AIM) |