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Tea blogs unite! Multiple Infusions

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Multiple Infusions

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

Highlights from The Crunchies

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Friday night I attended The Crunchies. A 2 hour award ceremony to “recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year.”

If you couldn’t make it out. Here’s what you missed:

1. Om Malik is back and thinner than ever!

2. Lavender Macaroons are fucking amazing

3. Fake Steve is still funny

Turn your iPhone into a web application portal

Friday, January 18th, 2008

With the recent 1.1.3 iPhone update we can finally arrange our application icons the way we like without hacking! This is fine and dandy, but you can only move those dancing icons around so much before it gets old.

What I’m really excited about is the ability to add website bookmarks to my home screen. It really makes them feel more like integrated applications when they’re in-line with all of the others (especially when they use the apple-touch-icon.)

The apple-touch-icon is essentially a larger favicon (57×57) that gets assigned when we add a site to our home screen. For those sites that don’t have one we can use this nifty favelet to assign our own icons.

I put together a list of great sites that use the touch icon:

Pownce
http://pownce.com

Yelp Mobile
http://mobile.yelp.com

Twitter
http://twitter.com

GetSatisfaction
http://getsatisfaction.com

Google Mobile
http://google.com/m

TechCrunch
http://techcrunch.com

Meebo
http://meebo.com

flickr
http://flickr.com

Next Muni
http://nextmuni.com

I’m sure the list goes on. Please feel free to add more in the comments