We had a great time both giving and getting demos at DEMO this year – our CEO, Neil Roseman, wrote this about the experience. Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth to see collections and the toolbar. If you missed the live broadcast, you can watch it here:
Now you can create and share your own collections! Watch the demo, or check out the sample collections we put together for Obama’s Cabinet and Oscar Winners. BTW, the name of your collection doesn’t HAVE to start with the letter “O”…
Click “Follow This” on any profile page to get started (it’ll ask you to create an account if you haven’t already), and don’t forget to share!
If you love Evri, now you can take it everywhere you go online. Download and install the Toolbar Beta (available for Firefox and Internet Explorer), and you’ll start to see yellow highlights show up on the pages you visit. Place your mouse over the highlights and get a description, the latest news, top connections, images, and videos for each highlighted topic.
It also lets you jump to any of our profile pages by typing a name into the Find box.
Learn more or just go and get it!
Here at Evri, there are debates over many subjects, but one irrefutable fact* is there is not a sweeter swing in baseball than that of Ken Griffey Jr. who after eight years away is returning to the Seattle Mariners. Although it made some sense for Griffey Jr. to leave the Mariners for the team where his father played with Hall of Fame players like Joe Morgan and Johnny Bench as part of the 70’s Big Red Machine, most of us never grew accustomed to his absence.
In the 1990’s, he was everywhere from commercials and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air to video games. Through ownership and other relationships, the Mariners are well connected to local video game titan, Nintendo, which resulted in a trio of classic video games featuring the great one: Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball, Ken Griffey Jr.’s Winning Run, and Ken Griffey Jr.’s Slugfest.
Being that Evri is located in the Pioneer Square district in Seattle, mere blocks from the house that Griffey built, it goes without saying that we are looking forward to having the Kid back in our midst.
*this statement has not been verified by employees originally from the east coast that may actually try to argue in favor of someone like John Kruk
Among my group of friends, calling oneself a fan of a band or musician is a pretty significant claim. It generally means that you can recite albums, songs, members, location of origin, etc. It’s especially gratifying to point out a hole in their knowledge, like knowing that The Clash actually had five drummers in their history or that Alex Désert, the lead singer of Hepcat once starred as a teacher on a popular TGIF sitcom.
This past week, while getting my haircut at Valentine’s, Seattle’s best barber, I found myself in a similar situation, with a rather embarrassing outcome. Valentine’s has played host to a number of music figures over the years, namely local Seattle producer Jake One and saxophonist Ravi Coltrane. As a result, discussion tends to center primarily on music.
During my past visit, my barber asked if I liked Stones Throw Records, to which I affirmed, they’ve released albums from underground hip hop fixtures like J Dilla, Madlib, and MF Doom. I was then asked if I was into Peanut Butter Wolf, to which I gave a puzzled look. I had never heard that name before. He then loudly said something about him and pointed toward someone sitting next to me about 4 feet away, who evidently was Peanut Butter Wolf. I sheepishly smiled, not knowing if I was supposed to know who was next to me.
Flash forward to about 10 minutes ago, I find the Stones Throw Records page on Evri, and notice that Peanut Butter Wolf is the top connection. It turns out that Peanut Butter Wolf, a.k.a. Chris Manak, founded Stones Throw Records in 1996. Not only did I not know the founder of a label I claimed to like, but also had the misfortune of admitting so in his presence.
On Evri, there are endless examples of interesting connections between people, places and things. Spending a little time browsing through your “favorites,” can potentially will help you avoid some serious social mishaps.
One of the best things about Evri is that you start with one little tip of the “entity web” and you can just keep browsing for a long time, finding out more than you expected about things that you love or hate (or love to hate). This is the first post in a new category where we dig deeper on various topics using Evri.
I was excited today when I saw Martin Scorsese hit our zeitgeist list on the home page. Lots of interesting new information about his next project, “Silence.” The movie is based on Shusaku Endo’s masterpiece from 1966, Silence. The book, about Catholic missionaries in 17th century Japan, concerns many of the themes Scorses has explored in differing ways in earlier films. Plenty of guilt, redemption, and violence here.
And the cast! Daniel Day-Lewis and Benicio Del Toro are on board right now.
I am a big movie fan, and a Scorsese fan as well. But, ever since I had a kid I am way behind on my movie news. So, not only was this the first time I read about this project but I also found out that Scorsese has another movie coming out this year — Shutter Island, based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lahane. Some good preview trailers on the page too.
Finally, for this tour, I was reminded that Benicio del Toro is in the remake of The Wolfman, coming out soon. I am cautiously excited about this, being a big fan of Lon Chaney Sr. and the original 1941 version. We’ll see in April.
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