http://blog.spongecell.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:07:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are turning off our old products so we can commit all of our resources to advertising. You can read more on the Retire page. Expect a lot more from our ads soon. Thanks to all our dedicated users, it's been a fun few years! http://blog.spongecell.com/?p=169 I'm pleased to announce that Spongecell has been selected as an AlwaysOn East 100 Winner in the Digital Media category.  Congratulations to the team on this award! http://blog.spongecell.com/?p=159 Because most of us Sponges are graduates of Carnegie Mellon, we've got a shared passion for the lovely city of Pittsburgh and it's many charming idiosyncrasies. If you haven't had the pleasure of eating a JonesBurger at Fatheads and washing it down with a pint of Yuengling, you need to ... http://blog.spongecell.com/?p=157 Like that kid with the unibrow in the 80s movie, we here at Spongecell want to be big. Not big like Shaq, but big enough to count some of the heavyweights of industry as our partners. We're ecstatic to report that we're on our way, as we are proud to ... http://blog.spongecell.com/?p=155 I just got back from Berlin where I was in attendance representing Spongecell at RailsConf Europe. In addition to my great presentation I was inspired by Yehuda Katz's presentation on jQuery and Justin Gehtland's talk on loosely coupled applications. We have been using the Prototype library for a long time ... http://blog.spongecell.com/?p=154 Pictured is Melissa Shin, Operations Manager, deciding which resource recovery receptacle to use for her  beverage container at the Slow Food Rocks festival on Sunday here in San Francisco. With the patient help of an attendant, she decided to put her made-from-corn-cup in the compost bin. Similar to deciding which resource ... http://blog.spongecell.com/?p=153 A hearty thanks and a tip of the hat to Nimbology, for their post regarding their experiences with our advertising platform and specifically, my little ad-hoc demonstration at SFBeta. It's always a great feeling when people you talk to and meet out in the real world understand what you're trying to ... http://blog.spongecell.com/?p=149 Spongecell CTO Chris Hobbs will be presenting at the Rails Conference Europe on September 4, 2008 in Berlin Germany. The RailsConf Europe is organized to meet the increasing demand for skill building, and to spread the developments of Rails to programmers and IT managers alike. The most innovative and successful ... http://blog.spongecell.com/?p=148 Last Thursday, some of our East Coast office made an appearance at Mashable's SummerMash at Touch in NYC, where there was lots of socializing about Web 2.0 over food, drinks and live music. The event was the grand finale of Mashable's cross country Summer Tour, and a couple hundred people ... http://blog.spongecell.com/?p=147 Spongecell's CEO Ben Kartzman was recently inducted into The Internet Oldtimers Foundation, erzognized as being as a leader in the digital advertising community. The foundation highlighted Ben's experience in the digital and online advertising worlds alike, writing: "Ben Kartzman has emerged as one of the leading minds in the creation ... http://blog.spongecell.com/?p=146