Spend it all on an epic launch party. Get the tech press and the silicon valley elite to come. Build so much buzz in one night, all of sand hill road skips work the next day to slide checks under your hotel suite door.
Nice work Brad, This is really cool. Now I want to hook something like this up to an A/B testing framework and see if I can improve site metrics simply by swapping out the background. Adding some basic image manipulation (hue, saturation, blur, etc) on top of the patterns would be nice to, as I imagine that how most people use that resource.
Pretty Nice. Couple of small issues I noticed: If you try to save an empty Paste you get a server error. Also, The Save Icon itself feels very 1990s to me, you might want to consider trying out a few others.
Hi, Paste.pm's designer here. I thought that same thing about using the floppy disk icon as a metaphor for "saving" things, I really wanted to use any other icon to represent that because I also had that feel of 1990s. But after some research, I arrived at the conclusion that the very much hated floppy disk icon is also the most representative one for this action.
I'm not sure if these were so wild, since they don't seem to be companies as high-profile or controversial as Color. Siri is somewhat wild insofar most people didn't expect that Apple was working on such a project. I'm talking more about the Apple will buy Twitter/EA/RIM stories.
I would say they are more high profile than Color. The only reason we think of Color as high profile is because it was a failure. Anyone outside of our bubble will never have heard of it. Siri and Chomp were both successful and had a lot of users. People actually cared when they were shut down. I doubt many people will care if Color gets shut down.
