PreferenceSet

I’m a huge fan of Komodo Media‘s Social Media Network Icon set. The icons are simple and elegant and they’ve become quite popular on the internet. Recently we were building an application here an needed an icon for Google Buzz and decided to build one to fit the Komodo Media icons, as the set has […]

Responding to the growing popularity of link shorteners (services which compress long links into short, coded links), Facebook, Google and Bit.ly. all announced new products yesterday. Google and Facebook are launching their own link shorteners, while Bit.ly is enhancing their market leading service. Beyond the excitement of these new developments, none of the new services […]

Recently we launched an internal project called Giv.to.  Giv.to is a URL shortener with a few additional tricks.  To support all the features we wanted to provide our uses, we decided to go with a full Ruby on Rails application.  We were worried about expensive scaling with Rails, if the service ever really caught on. […]