Ted Grubb hates hot cereal http://tedgrubb.com Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:05:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 en Tea blogs unite! Multiple Infusions http://tedgrubb.com/tea-blogs-unite-multiple-infusions/ http://tedgrubb.com/tea-blogs-unite-multiple-infusions/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:05:21 +0000 Ted Grubb http://tedgrubb.com/tea-blogs-unite-multiple-infusions/ 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

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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 :)

]]> http://tedgrubb.com/get-satisfaction-has-an-api/feed/ Dr. Fish Cafe http://tedgrubb.com/dr-fish-cafe/ http://tedgrubb.com/dr-fish-cafe/#comments Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:58:37 +0000 Ted Grubb http://tedgrubb.com/dr-fish-cafe/

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

]]> http://tedgrubb.com/dr-fish-cafe/feed/ Dinner http://tedgrubb.com/dinner/ http://tedgrubb.com/dinner/#comments Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:38:23 +0000 Ted Grubb http://tedgrubb.com/dinner/

Live skinned bbq eels. mmm… yeah.

]]> http://tedgrubb.com/dinner/feed/ Korea, part 1 http://tedgrubb.com/korea-part-1/ http://tedgrubb.com/korea-part-1/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:26 +0000 Ted Grubb http://tedgrubb.com/korea-part-1/ It’s day 7 in Seoul

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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.

]]> http://tedgrubb.com/korea-part-1/feed/ Slides are up from the Customer Service is the New Marketing Summit http://tedgrubb.com/slides-are-up-from-the-customer-service-is-the-new-marketing-summit/ http://tedgrubb.com/slides-are-up-from-the-customer-service-is-the-new-marketing-summit/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:14:52 +0000 Ted Grubb http://tedgrubb.com/slides-are-up-from-the-customer-service-is-the-new-marketing-summit/ 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.

]]> http://tedgrubb.com/slides-are-up-from-the-customer-service-is-the-new-marketing-summit/feed/ Sharpie’s customer support http://tedgrubb.com/sharpies-customer-support/ http://tedgrubb.com/sharpies-customer-support/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:42:19 +0000 Ted Grubb http://tedgrubb.com/sharpies-customer-support/ SharpieThe 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!

]]> http://tedgrubb.com/sharpies-customer-support/feed/ Custom apple touch icons (webclips) for your iPhone http://tedgrubb.com/custom-apple-touch-icons-webclips-for-your-iphone/ http://tedgrubb.com/custom-apple-touch-icons-webclips-for-your-iphone/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:05:31 +0000 Ted Grubb http://tedgrubb.com/?p=5 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!

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]]> http://tedgrubb.com/custom-apple-touch-icons-webclips-for-your-iphone/feed/ Highlights from The Crunchies http://tedgrubb.com/the-highlights-of-the-crunchies/ http://tedgrubb.com/the-highlights-of-the-crunchies/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:44:39 +0000 Ted Grubb http://tedgrubb.com/?p=4 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

]]> http://tedgrubb.com/the-highlights-of-the-crunchies/feed/ Turn your iPhone into a web application portal http://tedgrubb.com/turn-your-iphone-into-your-web-application-portal/ http://tedgrubb.com/turn-your-iphone-into-your-web-application-portal/#comments Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:22:32 +0000 Ted Grubb http://tedgrubb.com/?p=3 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

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