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Standing on the shoulders of giants
Circa was an atom in the universe of Semantic Web and Structured Journalism. I’d like to think we created a Big Bang, which resulted in apps like NYT Now, WSJ’s “What’s News”, Yahoo’s News Digest and countless others. However, we didn’t create the concept, we just built upon it and hopefully took it further than it had been executed, or conceptualized before.…
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The app world needs to be wild and free like the web
We reached an inflection point long ago. The vast majority of users prefer apps over mobile web as they continue to prefer mobile over desktop in increasing numbers. The problem is that the folks who create what we consume don’t have the same ability to create and iterate with the same flexibility and ease when building…
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Transparency and Process Journalism
(I wound up expanding on this idea in an op-ed for the L.A. Times, which you can read here) There’s two schools of thought when it comes to publishing news. There’s the traditional approach, where you take your time and make sure you have multiple named sources you’re personally and directly in contact with. That…
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Why I love ESPN’s redesign
ESPN was like Han Solo, dipped in design carbonite for years, but today, easily one of the best designed websites around. What I love: Clean card based design, easily transfers to mobile. Puts my teams first. First thing on the nav directs me to what’s going on right now. The NOW ticker gives rich, but…
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Dear Circa
I’ve been flooded with messages of support since we shut down. I asked permission to share these messages from the folks who sent them. I have been so amazed and humbled by how much people really had emotionally invested in Circa. It makes me feel really proud of what we were able to build and…
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Farewell Circa
(click here to skip to the list of Circa employees looking for new opportunities) Here’s the short Circa version: We tried to do something very different, we took huge risks, we built a product that spawned a whole new category, and we enjoyed every moment of it, at least until the money ran out and…