business transferred to glasseyalley.com!
Moo(ve) it!
While browsing around earlier I came across this post on Damiens blog. It appears you can now get small calling cards from photos on your flickr stream. A wonderful idea I thought, as I tried to get on to order some. The website seems to be getting alot of publicity right now which hopefully is the cause of it’s unusable speed. After three attempts to use the site earlier I’ve now given up for a few weeks. It’s painfully slow to load, slow to pull in photos from flickr, doesn’t seem to want to recognise flickr sets and the one time I actually managed to pick out ten images and proceed to cropping, the second stage of the order, it stalled. So, I’ve given up for now.
Odd that I blog about it then? Maybe give it a week or three before you bother checking it out unless you’ve got the patience of a saint. I will most certainly be making at least one order when the site responds fast enough to be used, which hopefully will be sooner rather than later.
edit: finally managed to get an order through the moo website for 10 free cards. Very simple order process thankfully. Now to wait for the cards!

September 19, 2006 - 7:55 pm
i ordered earlier on today aswell and found the speed fine. the flickr site on the other hand was super slow for me all day (just went back to normal speed now) so perhaps thats where the bottleneck was for you. looking forward to seeing the cards.
September 19, 2006 - 8:24 pm
Ach they have been TechCrunched which is presumably why the site is crawling.
September 21, 2006 - 7:25 pm
These are just the coolest things ever. Ordered some for myself earlier today also!
October 4, 2006 - 3:32 pm
Did ya get them yet then?
I’m considering buying the 100 box, they just look so dinky! But I can’t get the crop/zoom page to load properly and I’m about to give up
October 4, 2006 - 9:16 pm
Amazingly, I didn’t get my 10 box yet
Herself who must be obeyed got her 10 today (and she ordered hers after I did!). They are quite dinky but they’re cool and the finish on them is top notch. I’m hoping to at least get my 10 box this week, maybe the 100 box next week. I went for the 100 box before the end of September ‘cos of the free shipping. After seeing the cards today I’m glad I shelled out the $20.
The site was a bit tempermental for me at first (read: damn slow). It settled down again when I was ordering the 100 box (although the import of the 100 photos from flickr took ages). I’m using latest version of Firefox if that helps any. Go for the 100 box, you won’t be disappointed.
October 5, 2006 - 4:48 pm
I ordered my 100 pack today!!! I’m annoyingly excited!!! I actually went and re-edited quite a few of my pictures so they would crop better. I found that on the cropping page, if I clicked ‘reset picture’ it would load up the thumbnail for cropping so I did it that way. And the free shipping was extended until October 15th, so that’s even better. Now it’s up to them to package them up, and our lovely postal service to get them ON MY DOORSTEP, now!
Tell the lady to take pics of her set, too…
October 5, 2006 - 4:54 pm
Woo, extended free shipping!
Why oh why did I hear that last sentence in a thick Scottish accent (a la fat bastard) as I read it?
“HEY YOU, GET THEM ON MA DOORSTEP NOWWWW!”
Jesus, I do need help!
October 6, 2006 - 12:59 pm
But I speak far more politely than that. Fat bastard has a lot to answer for. Also “So I Married an Axe Murderer”.
If you want a (not suitable for children) example of the glasgow accent, play this game: http://www.chunkideas.com/snowball/ …strong language warning…