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I’ve been keeping busy these days. Most of my time (for the past 2 years) has been spent working with the incredible people at Get Satisfaction, but by night I’ve been hiding in my apartment scheming…

Over the past few months I’ve been working on a project. Something fresh, something ripe. It’s Ripe and it’s ready for consumption.

itsripe.com is designed to help you discover new recipes based on the ingredients you have.

Here’s how it works:

• Keep track of your ingredients in a virtual pantry.
• Create grocery lists to help keep your pantry stocked.
• Get recipe recommendations based on what you’ve added.
• Add more ingredients to keep getting better recommendations.
• You can add your favorite recipes or pick from recipes added by the community.

WE NEED BETA TESTERS! Sign up to find out what you can make.

Here’s a recipe my brother Lewis added a few weeks ago. (Any recipe can be embedded on your site like this)

Bryn Athyn, PA. The borough in which I was raised. I can’t say I relate to many of the people in this Republican run Christian society. But today I’m proud to be from one of the many small towns in Pennsylvania that helped elect Barack Obama as our 44th President of these United States.

This email came from a family friend:

I just went up to the Bryn Athyn Borough Hall where the voting results are taped to the window of the front door. For the first time since perhaps FDR and WW2 the democrat presidential candidate received more votes (14 more to be precise) in the BA borough than the republican candidate. An historic vote for BA! As best I could tell from reading the machine printouts and the absentee ballot document, the results look like this:

Obama (D) - 349 (49.4%)
McCain (R) - 335 (47.5%)
Barr (Lib.) - 8 (1.1%)
Paul - 4 write-ins (.57%)
Nader (Consumer?) - 3 (.42%)
Clinton - 1 write-in (.15%)
Pedro (who’s that?) - 1 write-in (.15%)
Chose not to vote - 5 (.71%)
TOTAL TURNOUT - 706 (100%)

Sadly I was out of the country for the election, but was able to early vote here in San Francisco before leaving.

If you like tea as much as my brother Lewis you’ll probably like his new project Multiple Infusions. Follow him as he samples and reviews tea from around the world.

Check out his 5 part Anxi tasting.

His pretty pictures make me want to drink more tea. Really.

From Multiple Infusions:

All my favorite tea blogs in one place

Multiple Infusions is an experiment in bringing tea blogs together. Conceived as a kind of dynamic blogroll, my hope is that it will provide visitors with a simple way to find out what’s happening in the tea blog world by visiting one page.

From there, visitors will be able to search and browse many tea blogs at once, where they’ll find varied perspectives on tea, including my own. All posts are tagged by tea type, country of origin, vendor and, of course, the blog where the full post can be found.

I realize that there are several tea blog aggregators in existence already, some of them quite good. I’m not looking to be just another aggregator. I’m looking to pay homage to the blogs I love by thoroughly mixing them into a single entity, one that facilitates effortless navigation and promotes intervisiting between sites.

Multiple Infusions is not in the business of repurposing content. The only full posts you’ll see here are my own, or those of my guest reviewers. All other posts will be limited to a brief description and an image from the originating blog, with permission only.

Over the coming months, as I determine what works and what doesn’t with this experiment, I will be looking to add more blogs to Multiple Infusions. If you are interested in being featured here or have anything else on your mind, please feel free to contact me.

Thanks for visiting!

Lewis
multipleinfusions@gmail.com

http://blog.getsatisfaction.com/2008/04/16/the-get-satisfaction-api-is-here/

We’ve been hard at work on this for the past several months, and by we I mean Scott Fleckenstein.

Like working with PHP?
http://developers.getsatisfaction.com/docs/Using_The_PHP_Library

Are you a Ruby on Rails ninja?
http://developers.getsatisfaction.com/docs/Using_the_Ruby_Library

I think I’ll start by building an iPhone app

$10 gets you cake, coffee/tea, Dr. Fish, and aroma therapy. Excellent!

Live skinned bbq eels. mmm… yeah.

It’s day 7 in Seoul

I’m waking up in a bit of a haze from last nights YouTube Korea party. Where the free booze and geek groupies were a flowin’. I was amazed by the turnout of this event (1000+). YouTube had a rough launch in Korea earlier this year, but it seems like people are at least interested in seeing Steve Chen in person.

My experiences in Korea have been very interesting thus far. I’ve been meeting a lot of really interesting startup folks (musicshake, storyblender, gomtv, SK Telecom’s tossi.)

Tomorrow I’m meeting up with the people from OpenMaru, Korea’s openID experts. I’m really looking forward to getting a fresh perspective on this subject.

For all of you who couldn’t make it. Slides are available to the world on my favorite slide sharing site, SlideShare!

http://www.slideshare.net/event/customer-service-is-the-new-marketing-summit

The not so live cast should be available in a few weeks.

The other day I stumbled upon Sharpie’s personalize your sharpie tool. Naturally I wanted to print bad words on them and have them delivered to me ASAP!

After getting past their “appropriate message filter” using slightly less offensive language, I successfully submitted an order for 12 personalized Sharpies that read (in bold cursive)
“You stole my Sharpy… A-hole!.”

Well today I received a very pleasant email from Sherri Brown, Sanford Consumer Affairs Associate that read:

Good Morning,

I have been advised that we need to confirm with you on you order, both markers show sharpy, is this the way you need it to be spelled? And also unfortunately we are not allowed to print certain words that have several meanings, and A-hole is one of them, I am sorry, but can you revise to something else?

Not only did my sneaky bad word not get through, but I also spelled Sharpie with a freakin “y.”

Though I’m a bit sad that I couldn’t slip one past them, their attention to detail has saved me the embarrassment of all my friends knowing that I can’t spell. Luckily they don’t read my blog

Thanks Sherri Brown!

Now that we can set an apple touch icon for any site we don’t have to wait for our favorites to add their own. I’ve put together these icons ready to be linked to from your iphone or ipod touch. Enjoy!