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What do you think of our new team page? (type "dance" for party mode)
- huhtenberg 16y ago6 up-votes, so I take even your VP of sales now got the HN account :) (edit) The page itself - I am trying to like it, but something about it rubs me the wrong way. It might be that it is too personal and overly playful, and people look somewhat unnatural, almost as if they were forced to look having fun. This coupled with sudden image swaps creates the impression of a twitchy teenager trying to look cool rather than a smug bunch of sociable geeks. Also your CEO needs a shave, looks kind of unkempt, and Jeff's photo is of a different scale, so he looks like a person with a small head. Oh, and the dance mode doesn't appear to be working in FF3 on Windows. Typing "dance" does not do anything.
- brendan 16y agoThe benefits of being a big company ;)
- csavage 16y agoI shaved that morning, but I had to chop down a tree and fight a fire on my way into the office. The result: a 10am shadow.
- norova 16y agoNitpicking about the shave? Seriously? He doesn't look unkempt, he looks relaxed and like he's enjoying his life.
- huhtenberg 16y agoNot nitpicking, no. He is a head of the company, and his appearance contributes to the overall company's image. Consider what your first impression of a company would be if its CEO were a pierced dude with dreadlocks. Same goes here, "relaxed" and "approachable" is nice for socializing, but in business context it might be less desirable than "reliable" and "organized". I will take back the unkempt, but I would still insist on Chris needing a shave. Now, back to the downvoting frenzy.
- grncdr 16y agoNot exactly a counterpoint, but I immediately thought of this: http://earbits.com/play/#/about_us http://earbits.com/play/#/about_us
- amaaanda 16y agoI'd actually feel more comfortable calling these guys on the phone or having a sitdown business lunch with one of them after watching this video. Too many business folks take themselves too seriously. And Chris looks like he's shaved as close as he can. Didn't come off to me as a five o'clock shadow at all.
- bmelton 16y agoIt took considerable willpower to not downvote you (though it appears that somebody else already has) -- but really? Making fun of somebody's facial hair? For the record, they all look a little bit unkempt (except Brendan, who I'm guessing is single ;-)). To most people, that's a job perk -- not having to put on a suit and tie and be perfectly prepared every single day.
- brendan 16y agoI'm not single, my girlfriend just dresses me.
- acl 16y agoWhere did the Jay-Z/Modern English track come from?
- brendan 16y agoIt's the last track on Girl Talk's All Day: http://www.illegal-art.net/allday/ http://www.illegal-art.net/allday/
- num1 16y agoDance mode made my day. Well played.
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- eberfreitas 16y agoOn my 14" screen I can't see the staff and each profile at the same time.
- postit 16y agoToo many chiefs and just one craftsman. This definitely rings a bell. It's such a shame for startups to "enterprisy" their job roles.
- ffumarola 16y agoI'm not the only one who noticed that? Seems odd.
- csavage 16y agoThis is a great point and something that has been debated extensively over here. I've got a blog post coming to explain our reasoning. (edit) Here's my fresh blog post: http://savagethoughts.com/post/3772138359/whats-in-a-name http://savagethoughts.com/post/3772138359/whats-in-a-name
- russell_h 16y agoI think that can come in handy in a business-to-business situation. For example, if you have two engineers you can either call them each a "Software Developer" or you can have a "VP of Engineering" and a "CTO". Now when your customer, Huge-Corp(TM), who is going to pay the bills for the next 3 months calls, would you rather tell them "let me put one of our developers on the phone" or "let me put our vice president of engineering on the phone"?
- patio11 16y agoIn a similar vein, I introduce myself as "I'm in charge of the product" when returning calls.
- DTrejo 16y agoHuh? 2 CS, 1 Designer, 3 others. I count three craftsmen.
- Shamiq 16y agoGrrr IE.... Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; InfoPath.3; MS-RTC LM 8) Timestamp: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:39:09 UTC Message: 'beats' is null or not an object Line: 303 Char: 9 Code: 0 URI: http://wistia.com/about/team http://wistia.com/about/team
- brendan 16y agoThanks for the details. I didn't test dance mode in IE. I thought I'd cut myself some slack since it's just an easter egg. I'll see what I can do though!
- arnorhs 16y agoWeird how many negative comments you're getting. I for one absolutely love it. I think it's energizing and the awkwardness+energy is fun. It's definitely not the "typical SF thing" etc, but to anybody outside California, this feels refreshing. Great job
- paul9290 16y agoAgreed definitely something that should and possibly be shared virally and or bookmarked or stumbledupon. A start-up is about creating/doing your own thing, making a living off of it(hopefully profit from it) and most of all having fun!
- temporarius 16y ago>> What do you think of our new team page? > Weird how many negative comments you're getting. That in itself is a feedback too.
- eykanal 16y agoNice page, but you won't be able to read the text on smaller screens. You may want to consider making the height of that huge graphic dynamic (within limits). Also, the dance thing is just awesome.
- kuahyeow 16y agoThe transitions can be a bit smoother and less instant
- yeahsure 16y agoPersonally, I really liked it. The only thing I didn't was how the pictures are cut at the bottom when you "dance", looks a bit weird to me.
- spencerfry 16y agoI like yours! Here's something polar opposite: http://carbonmade.com/about http://carbonmade.com/about
- csavage 16y agoThanks, we like yours too!
- Keyframe 16y agoFYI Dance does not work in Chrome 10.0.648.127 on Win7-x64
- chopsueyar 16y agoI think you need to prepare for your DMCA take-down notice.
- ugh 16y agoI very much doubt that Gregg Gillis will send them a takedown notice. (They are technically violating his copyright since the track is under a non-commercial/attribution Creative Commons license and they seem to violate both those terms. Gregg Gillis, however, doesn’t strike me as the kind of guy who would send out petty takedown notices.)
- chopsueyar 16y agoAt least put the attribution in the HTML as a comment, no? This company arbitrarily decides what copyrights to acknowledge and violate? So I am supposed to host my video with them, but how will I know they will respect my intellectual property? If you are a good coder, do creative commons licenses not apply? Is this the tip of the iceberg? Help me out here.
- dskhatri 16y agoReally digging your Company Overview video too: http://wistia.com/about/company http://wistia.com/about/company
- csavage 16y agoThanks. It was made by Chris Lavigne at http://www.crlvideo.com http://www.crlvideo.com He's UBER talented.
- fletchowns 16y agoDitch those S107s and get yourself some Blade MCX2s!! I'm diggin' the company profile page as well as the team page, nice work!
- keegomaster 16y agoKeep up the good work!
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- dangoldin 16y agoAwesome and fun! Who else looked at the source to see what other words you could type in? Only to discover that it's just dance =(
- alexkay 16y agoDoesn't work vimperator, the first D deletes the tab ;)
- joes_shack 16y agoWhy don't you learn how to use it? Ctrl+Z to enable pass-through mode.
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- mrleinad 16y agoAbsolutely love it. Great work.
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- sportsTAKES 16y agoI think it's cool. Good for you guys for posting something creative and fun on your site. (No idea why anyone would be critical of this.) Coincidentally, I opened a Wistia account just last week. Very cool service, keep up the good work.
- adamzais 16y agoThanks for your kind words.
- david_a_r_kemp 16y agoIt's pretty nice, but you might want to look at the edge refine too in Photoshop CS5 to get the cutouts a bit neater.
- hellweaver666 16y agoIt's awesome. You might want to consider preloading the hover states though, it seemed to take a while for them to load on my screen.
- scotth 16y agoLove it.
- atlantic 16y agoGreat stuff. Well done. Had a good laugh there.
- bhickey 16y agoI've added Brendan Schwartz to the 'where-people-are' file on the Brown CS filesystem...
- buzzfarmers 16y agoHaters are gonna hate! Keep pushing forward! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QePjIIBI-sI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QePjIIBI-sI
- sp4rki 16y agoDid you guys remove the 'party' mode easter egg?
- jtheory 16y agoNote: if you have flashblock enabled, it won't run; you have to enable flash for this site first. I realized why it was probably breaking after seeing comments here about the music.
- brown9-2 16y agoWhat happens when you hire someone new?
- brendan 16y agoI made hi-res cutouts of each person. The plan is just to shrink everyone slightly and add the new people to the left and right. I'm not sure how it will look, but that's the idea at least. Also, at first I was worried about matching the lighting in the new photos, but these cutouts are all from different photos and the lighting was quite a bit different between each shot already. I'm no expert, but I just played with the levels in PhotoShop until things looked right. I think it came out looking pretty good.
- Mz 16y agoJeff Vincent: You can always finding him listening to good beats. I'm thinking this is a typo. I mention it in hopes of helping you present a good public image. God knows, I can't proof read my own crap.
- jeffvincent 16y agoHey Mz - good eye :) much appreciated.
- brendan 16y agoMz, thanks again for spotting that and taking the time to let us know. Just fixed it on the website. You rock!