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WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND A screen shot from Slice editor in chief Adam K.'s Outlook Express in-box.
A good amount of the offbeat pizza news I regurgitate on Slice comes to my attention via Google News and its News Alert feature, which sends users e-mails whenever something moves on the wires with whatever search parameters the user has specified. Today at 6:28 p.m. EDT, I received a News Alert e-mail about piPod. How d'ya like them apples?
I never thought this little guide would get this much attention. Since posting about it at 3 a.m. or so on Tuesday morning, we've seen more web traffic in three days than we did the past two months combined. Much of the response has been overwhelmingly positive, with maybe one person on a site somewhere commenting that it was neat but didn't contain as many pizzerias as he would like.
Fair enough criticism. I came up with the piPod idea Monday on my subway ride home from work, wishing I had the phone number for House of Pizza so I could call and check if they were open. At that point, the idea of piPod hit me, and, instead of trekking to House, I went home and culled together version 1.0 of the guide. Wanting to see the idea through in one working session, I left out a lot of pizzerias, with Staten Island and The Bronx getting one pizzeria only (and with some embarrassing typos in some of the files).
I'm working on correcting both the sparse nature of the guide (and the typos). The next version of piPod should be out by Tuesday night.
We at Slice would like to thank everyone who has written us e-mails praising piPod or who has sent us "glaring omissions." We'd also like to thank all the websites that have posted about piPod, especially iPodLounge, gizmodo, boingBoing, and Kottke—those four really started the ball rolling. We'd like to list everyone who has linked to the guide, but there are too many right now! (But you can see some of them here.)
Oh, and of course, thanks to the Slice staff for all the work you've done over the last nine months: Seltzerboy, E-Rock, and Amanda G.
Most of all, I'd like to thank my dad, for buying me the iPod when he and my mom were in town the other week. Thanks, Dad!
In other piPod news, we're pleased to announce that you can find the lil' iPod-based pizza guide at its own dedicated URL: www.piPodNY.com (though it's not case-sensitive, so don't let the shift key slow you down).
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2 Comments:
very nice adam and slice crew. i like how i'm in that technorati stuff despite not linking to the piPod.
Slice tien at 11:35AM on 06/25/04
Hell, yeah, you're in the Technorati stuff. You comment like every day! (And we appreciate it. Thanks.)
Adam Kuban at 11:06PM on 06/30/04