I’m incredibly proud of this crazy, awesome, beautiful, responsive new section of The Verge we’ve been building over the last couple of months: Verge Video, a new home for The Verge’s insanely great original video content.
VAX ’13 Documentary covers Vox Media’s hackathon in Texas
VAX ’13 wrapped up two weeks ago on a sunny Friday afternoon in Austin, Texas, and our product team presented their proof-of-concept work in front of the entire company.
In a Google Hangout, editorial and sales staff from across the country watched as over a dozen exciting new projects were…
Check out the sweet documentary my coworkers put together about our hackathon in Austin last month.
VAX ’13: Vox Media Product Team’s first hack week
VAX is a three-day hackathon that starts today, Wednesday, February 20 and wraps up on Friday, February 22. The ideas being worked on at VAX are forward-thinking and full of creativity. During normal development cycles, the product team focuses on projects that are prioritized by company needs. At VAX, the scales are tipped, and the product team has full creative control.
This is why we’re in Austin. Click through to see a great photo of my coworker Dan.
Vox Product: Representing the Product Team at CES 2013
My name is Chao Li, and I’m the Support Manager for The Verge. I answer all the support emails, monitor the Verge support twitter account, and I’m responsible for communicating and helping with site feature additions, changes, and fixes. When something breaks, I’m in the first line of defense — except this time, I was in the sky with no WiFi. It turned out that Chorus, Vox Media’s modern media stack, was acting up and it was taking an extra long time to publish articles. Writers and editors were freaking out, and we were scared of missing embargoes. This was not the way we wanted to start CES.
My coworker Chao wrote about our experience last month at CES. Check it out!
The SB Nation redesign my coworkers at Vox launched today is incredible. Beautiful. fully responsive, and chock of Hoefler & Frere-Jones webfont goodness. Amazing, check it out.
Good news, everyone!
I’m starting my new job tomorrow as a web developer at the Vox Media Product Team here in DC! You may know them from such online internet websites as SB Nation, The Verge, and Polygon. It’s gonna be awesome.
Better infinite scrolling with the HTML5 History API
Now that Piictu finally launched and is out of beta, I want to write a bit about one of my favorite things I worked on as the front-end web developer there, which is our implementation of an infinite scrolling page improved by the use of the HTML5 History API.
Look, I blogged!
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Moving on.
Today is my last day at Piictu. I wish Jon, Hugo, and the rest of the team best of luck with the app; and thank them for the opportunity and the great learning experience.
This means I’m once again available for freelance work, so if anyone needs a web developer, don’t hesitate to contact me.
Onwards.
I’m starting a Hipstamatic stream on Piictu, come take a look and add your own if you want.
By rafitorres in the “I love you” in your native tongue stream on Piictu. This is why I love having my friends on Piictu.
“There’s no other way to describe the UI than ‘A bunch of delicious pixels got together and the designer wizard waved his magic wand to create a stunningly beautiful UI that you just want to chew on and eat.’”
Piictu: A Delicious Way to Play with your Photos, by Preshit Deorukhkar.
Wow, spot on.
Part photo game, part social camera, piictu is a fun + simple way to talk and play with piics from your mobile phone. Simply snap a piic, post it and watch it come to life with picture replies. Create photo contests, compete with friends and strangers, ask questions, or start a conversation through piics. No rules, it’s up to your imagination.
