Fan Art Talk in the Virtual Labs: Special Guest Professor Henry Jenkins
UPDATE: This is the podcast of the conversation with Prof. Jenkins that took place October 16, 2008 in Etsy's Virtual Lab. All Etsy podcasts are published under Creative Commons licenses so please feel free to embed audio and video on your blogs or websites. For other Etsy videos and podcasts please …
Tech Update: An Honest Beginning for Etsy's New CTO
Chad Dickerson joined the Etsy team on September 2, 2008 as our first CTO (Chief Technology Officer). Below Chad shares his personal account of his first two weeks at Etsy as well as some important information about the site, search functionality, and looking to the future.Welcome to Etsy ... Now Get to Work!I …
Etsy in the Press: New York Times Geekery
Etsy was mentioned in a New York Times article today, November 15, 2007. Read the piece, Tinkering at Home, Selling on the Web, at this link. "Etsy (www.etsy.com) is a popular e-commerce site for people to sell their wares. Alongside more traditional items, it offers a scattering of tech-oriented accessories …
How-to Use Etsy: Get your TechUpdates!
The Storque is an Etsy seller's place for news and updates about how the Etsy site itself functions, new site features, and important alerts about bugs. It's also a blog for shoppers who want to browse, browse, browse — as they would flip pages of a magazine or stop by their favorite boutique. Because of this dual …
TechUpdates: Best of Both Worlds Storque Ticker
The new Storque ticker on the frontpage of Etsy gives you headlines and, if you click on the related items on the righthand side, links directly to those listings. We want to make The Storque both a place for buyers to browse — as one would browse a fashion magazine or the racks of a favorite boutique — as well as …
Electronic Press Kit
We here at Etsy have decided to upgrade our bulky, paper-ridden press kit with a sleek new EPK, or Electronic Press Kit. An EPK is a standard press kit in digital form. Instead of sending an environmentally inconsiderate stack of documents to our press and media contacts, the new EPK will consist of only one …
Tech Updates: Storque has new features
Hi guys, I just want to say a big thank you to the engineers who have implemented some new features on The Storque:You can now see the latest comments along the left column on The Storque homepage. "NEWS" has been changed to "ETSY NEWS" for clarity's sake.New options for RSS feeds Admin panel features to make our …
Search: What you wanted and what you got
Hi Guys,For those of you who don't know me, I'm Kelly. One of the things I'm working on is improving the search tools, and in addition to the great feedback you guys have already posted in the forums, I've got a specific question that will help us improve search for you:If you had trouble finding what you're looking …
Admin Alert: News on Billing System
RevolvingDork announced the what's what with billing: "We've completed the new billing system and we're just about ready to launch it.We originally hoped to get it launched by today, but we decided to take a little extra time to triple-check everything and make sure it's as rock solid as possible. It will be …
