Monday, October 9, 2006

Images from the Wunderground Wunderground: Providence, 1995- present. Underground Wonderland The RISD Museum is hosting a retrospective of Providence's DIY marketing approach to underground shows. The exhibit, with every wall plastered from floor to ceiling, feels like a time-capsule. Fort Thunder and its associated bands has been mentioned here on the blue before, but the sense of community that comes through, and which still runs through Providence's subcultures thanks to individuals like Ryan Lesser and his "Lots of Noise" site deserves yet another post. Be sure to check out the Lots of Noise image and photo gallery for more fun stuff. (No direct links, sorry!) [MetaFilter] 8:15:08 PM

Sampa.com Sampa announces Rob Dickerson as its new CEO. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE REDMOND, WA (Monday, October 9, 2006) -- Sampa Corp (www.sampa.com) announced today the appointment of Rob Dickerson as its CEO, replacing the founder Marcelo Calbucci. Rob Dickerson has more than 20 years of experience in executive roles, most recently as the President and CEO of Pacific Edge Software. Before that Dickerson was the Sr. Vice President of Products at Rational Software and has held a variety of executive roles at Pure Software and Borland. "People's expectations for websites have been raised by interactive AJAX driven systems such as Google Maps or GMail, and by content sharing sites such as Flickr or YouTube" said Dickerson, "Sampa can use web service interfaces from these content sharing sites to let people create their own interactive multimedia websites without programming". Sampa also announced that Daniel Kerns joined the company as its Vice President of Engineering. Kerns is a veteran of the software industry and most recently founded Pure Networks. He has held positions from developer to executive at Rational Software, WMware, Pure Software and Data General. Marcelo will continue to be involved with Sampa in the role of CTO. "We are very excited to have experienced people like Dan and Rob joining us", said Marcelo. About Sampa Corp.: Founded in February 2005 by former Microsoft engineer Marcelo Calbucci, Sampa was borne of his passion to simplify the experience of individuals building websites to share their life on the web. Sampa offers a free, do-it-yourself website creation and hosting service available in beta at www.sampa.com. Sampa is designed to enable a broad array of users to easily create attractive interactive sites. By leveraging other popular web services such as YouTube, Flickr and Blogger, Sampa users can quickly create a web presence centralizing all of their content under one site by integrating rather than re-creating other web content. An easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface allows non-technical web users to design and modify their Sampa site from their browser without knowing HTML. Sampa provides built-in photo albums, blogs, feeds, pages, dynamic menus, templates and a comprehensive configuration system for users to take control of their website. Website: http://www.sampa.com Blog: http://blog.sampa.com (feed: http://blog.sampa.com/feed.xml) Press Contact: press (at) sampa.com or http://www.sampa.com/press.aspx By Marcelo. [Sampa Blog] 7:46:44 PM