The Indian greeting “Namaste” does not translate perfectly into other languages. Simply translated, it means “I bow to the divine in you”. It’s not only spoken and is accompanied by a “slight bow made with hands pressed together, palms touching and fingers pointing upwards, in front of the chest”. Other great words that are hard to translate include Saudade, in Portuguese, and Sisu, in Finnish.
Namaste, to all of you who’ve come by to create such beautiful scrapblogs: you’ve blown us away, by your creatvity, by your photos, by the time you’ve spent and the love you’ve shown. We will start featuring them here.
And Namaste, to those who’ve sent feedback, both positive and negative. We appreciate your Kudos and your nudges about where we could do a better job.
Also, Namaste to those who’ve greeted us warmly over the past week, who’ve welcomed us and who’ve talked about us. It’s only been a day since the curtains were unveiled and already there’ve been scrapblogs published across the web, in blogs and in photosharing sites across the globe. The links keep arriving and we’ve joined some of the conversations. We’d like to acknowledge as many of them as we can here:
We’re thrilled by bloggers who’ve picked us up around the world. Jussara Nunes, Richard Menneveux and Hebiflux blogged us in France, Pat Phelan in Ireland, Andy Piper, Simon Bisson and Stuart Meldrum in the UK, Blogosfere, Federico, Francesco Fullone and Cristian in Italy, Mark Robinson in Canada, Edwin Mijnsbergen in the Netherlands, Carol Leslie in Brazil, Deepak Verma in India (Namaste!), Michael Kamleitner in Austria, Mikkel in Denmark and Gonzalo Arzuaga posted us on KillerStartups.com, in Argentina (please vote for us!). Ivan Chew hearted us in Singapore and Kai in New Zealand, where we’ve worked with a great development team. Mobile expert Charlie Schick, who works at a large telecoms firm, has been test driving Scrapblog in Finland, to his delight as has Stella Stenroos. Anita Rissler’s in Sweden and we’ve seen articles we can’t read in Israel, China, Japan and Russia (hope they’re good!), as well as interest in Australia, from MeatPaddy and Tower Systems. Leonard Witt scrabplogged his travels in Spain: looks like he had great fun! And let’s not forget virtual worlds: usability expert Thomas Baekdal from Denmark knows alot about Second Life as well.
On the techy side, thank you, Ryan Stewart, RIA mountaineer, who liked our Adobe Apollo demonstration, as did Mike Potter from RIApedia and JD from MacroMedia. Scott Barnes of Microsoft liked that we’re powered by .NET and WebORB (as did Mark Piller). Joe Parry, from Visual Design & Analysis, liked the smoothness of Scrapblog Builder, Jeff Croft dug our UI and design, Molly Macdonald of DemoGirl liked our themes and Ine Dehandschutter like our features and integration with media-sharing services, as well as Cameron Moll who linked us up.
UK-based social media guru Lee Bryant linked to us and his american counterpart Brian Oberkirch scrapblogged a family outing at the beach … great pics! Rafat Ali mentioned our VC financing and Susan Kitchens from Family Oral History, found Scrapblog “dang easy to use”!
You like pink? Christine, Big Pink Cookie, enjoyed meeting up with Sottish-American Hugh MacLeod and me in Austin for the SXSW interactive festival and has been talking about us to her friends. And Susannah Gardner of UnfavorablePink enjoyed creating her first scrapblog, despite a glitch or two (care to tell us? Our e-mail is feedback[at]scrapblog[dot]com).
We dig The Bonster, who put her scrapblog on her MySpace homepage and we’d like to send a virtual hug to the many more who blogged and linked to us over the last few days: Sherwin Techico, Quentin D’Souza, Frederic, Paul Hallstein, Scrapbooking Bloggers, Marshall, Jen, GuillaumeB at Webscratches, Jeroen Coumans, Julian, Kitty Lin, Emily Davidow, Rhianna, Cindy, Susan, Josie, Red Pirmary, San Jose State University, Bernard Doddema, North Temple, Corporate Geek and “cool stuff” sites Web2weblog and Stuffiti. Uncle Su saw a lot of potential in Scrapblog and Christopher Salazar’s already asking for more features!
Finally, thank you, TechCrunch, TechMeme, ZDNet, who broke the story early, Jeremiah Owyang, Josh Hallett, Douglas Karr, and Ryan Stewart, who blogged about our launch first, David Parmet, Tara Hunt and Shel Israel, our advisors and Longworth Venture Partners (hi, Kevin), our VCs.
So, to all those who’ve linked to our blog and site, who’ve published their scrapblogs to Flickr, who’ve tweeted about us on Twitter, Namaste. You’ve helped make the past week memorable and unforgettable.
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