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I’m the CEO at Viget Labs.

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SpeakerRate on ReadWriteWeb February 19, 2009 – 6:34 am

Rick at ReadWriteWeb has a good write-up about SpeakerRate.  He sets up the reason why SpeakerRate exists really nicely with this intro: If you’re a speaker, you know that standing in front of a crowd isn’t half as hard as getting critical feedback on your talks. People who disliked it will generally remain silent or [...]

SpeakerRate, Now Open For Rating February 11, 2009 – 11:30 pm

We posted recently about SpeakerRate, our first official Pointless Project.  It was behind a private beta wall, and we invited in a small group of folks to provide feedback so we could make it better before releasing it to the world.  Their feedback was great, and some of it was “why the wall?”  For this [...]

Our Pointless Logo January 31, 2009 – 10:01 am

In case you missed it, the always inspiring Doug Avery wrote a great post on Viget’s Inspire blog about the design process he went through to create the Pointless Corp. logo.  I was there for the early sketches of hydras, half-amputated fingers, and platypuses (platypi?).  The bear-on-a-bike sketch, though, immediately jumped out at all of us.  What could [...]

Introducing SpeakerRate January 26, 2009 – 11:46 pm

Over the past few months — even before we formalized the concept of Pointless Corp. — we’ve been working here-and-there on a project called SpeakerRate.  SpeakerRate is a community site for event speakers, attendees, and organizers.  We’ve been all three of these at one point or another, and we felt that a site like SpeakerRate [...]

Hi, We’re Pointless Corp. January 23, 2009 – 9:22 am

As you can see in a couple places on this site if you look carefully, Pointless Corp. is neither pointless nor a corporation.  It’s a place where we folks from Viget Labs can get together to build little web projects when we’re not busy with client work.  In some ways, it’s nothing new — like most consulting [...]