OnMyList Blog

Derek and I met at Zazie in Cole Valley for a late morning brunch way back in June. He didn’t know me from Adam at the time but graciously agreed to meet up since we were practically neighbors. I wanted to run OnMyList past Derek and see what what his thoughts on the website and space were. I think we had just launched a week or two earlier. After our meeting I decided it would be good to have his opinion a little more often and began exploring adding him to the advisory board. Four months later we have.

Derek has a great set of past experiences on all kinds of interesting stuff from design to communities to publishing to photography to chihuahuas (that’s a funny word to type by the way). He played key roles at Blogger, Technorati, and was the founder of user generated magazine JPG. Derek also wrote a seminal book on online communities titled, “Design for Community: The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places.”

Derek joins our existing advisory board members, who I would be remiss not to mention, Jude Lange, Jim Spencer, and Jeff Wasson.

Today Andrew, Margaret and I were all working from Ritual Coffee in the Mission. AS I walked in I looked on at the army of hopped up people working diligently on their computers. Staring back at me was a sea of glowing half eaten Apples. In fact I later did a little count. Of the 27 laptops in Ritual, 24 of them were macs. Pretty impressive! I wonder what the common thread is at Ritual?

Here’s Margaret designing the new OnMyList.