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Hi folks,
A quick note:
Of the many great reviews written about BricaBox today, one has made it quite high up in Digg. It would be great to get this review on the front page, so please go and Digg it.
Thanks so much,
Nate

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Thanks Read Write Web, CenterNetworks, Mashable, SomewhatFrank, WWWhatsnew, Changing Way, Silicon Alley Insider, jrusso, and others for the coverage. (I’ll add your link here when I see it)

Ladies, Gentlemen, Friends, and RSS Subscribers…
Behold, the new BricaBox:

I am super proud to announce the launch of BricaBox.com.
We’ve been at work for nearly 8 months (see the details [...]

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Hi folks, I’m working on part 2 of the “manifesto” — this next part is going to be called “The Social Content Autopsy” — and I wanted to get some feedback from you on some notes of mine and a quick video I put together to express those notes.
This will help me get my material [...]

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Mark your calendars. I’m very happy to share that we’ll open BricaBox up to the public next Tuesday, February 26th.
Interesting tid-bit #1: The version we’re launching will be completely different from what you see on the main site now. Over the last 6 weeks, Kyle has been rewriting the entire platform in PHP (from Ruby [...]

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I’m writing, with the encouragement of my anti-stealth friend Charlie O’Donnell, a series of posts which talk more explicitly about BricaBox. This first one is about the market and web trends which are informing us. Future posts will talk about WHY you’d use BricaBox, from a consumer perspective. For now, please read the first [...]

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We’ll put a formal “help wanted” ad out in a few days, but as things start to get exciting here at BricaBox (launching in February and working on some exciting new special projects), I wanted to start getting the message out there that we’re going to need more smart development hands in the pot very [...]

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Here’s a call to action from Kyle, and a sneak preview of the new design + UI:

Click on the image to see it in its true size (and keep sending in those inquiries!).

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You could go check out my post on the BricaBox Blog, but I also wanted to make a note here, for any web designers reading my blog (or for those of you with web designer friends - pass it on too!):
We’re making an open call for web designers to contribute to the first set of [...]

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Startupers, if you haven’t read Evan Williams’ “Will it Fly” article today, go do it.
Basically, Evan came up with a chart with which to judge the validity of new product/business ideas.
In the chart, he examines an app’s:

Tractability
Obviousness
Deepness
Wideness
Discoverability
Monetizability

He then examines several of the web’s most successful apps over the past several years. See chart:

How does BricaBox [...]

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I just posted about it on the BricaBox Blog (not a reader yet? subscribe here), and you can check out the video on out BricaBox How-To site, but the above is a screenshot of me abusing a new feature on BricaBox that allows you to use whatever colors you want.
It’s pretty awesome.

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