http://gigaom.com/2008/06/26/iminlikewithyou-gets-vc-cash-for-new-game/

The post also reveals a little more info about our man-on-the-inside, Charles Forman. Turns out he’s a Valleywag fave, to say the least;

http://valleywag.com/tech/charles-forman/iminlikewithyou-founder-not-as-big-a-jerk-as-youd-think-318980.php
http://valleywag.com/370335/reallynotinlikewithyou

I would like to think that EntreList.com, and the zillions of man hours we’ve poured in to writing about IILWY, has helped to sway the new investors, board members, and team members in their decision. And I’m looking forward to the next sunday session (whenever that may be), safe in the knowledge that the new funding will keep our favorite sunday down-time app around for longer.

Talking of which, Ryan and I are finally meeting next weekend! I’ll make sure we talk about a full-on EntreList meetup in Amsterdam….

@Micro-blogging & Jaiku - I’ve been revisiting my Jaiku account (got the username ‘neil’ back in the day), and it’s not bad at all. I have a different set of contacts from those on Twitter, so I’ve justified actually using another microblogging service (or visiting one when Twitter is down). @Peter, I’m following you, but it looks like you’re back on Twitter full-time. The funny thing is, the Jaiku rss import cron jobs obviously can’t handle a quick update of the imported Twitter feeds - they turn up at least 24 hours late (well, maybe this is a tactical decision - that wouldn’t surprise me).

@git - my post was only really the beginning, it doesn’t really go into anything like branching or forking, but thanks for the support.

@IILWY - I’d like to see powerup that sends a 7 block long, U-shape piece (i.e there are 2 blocks at each end - like the current U block but longer) to another player (in blockles), and that block is just reserved for powerups. Another could be they get their screen blocked until they solve a simple maths problem, it would catch most people of guard, and it would be hard to solve with that much adrenaline pumping through your veins! - Applicable to all games probably.

@Wakoopa - We use SVN at Wakoopa, but we’re gonna switch to Git sometime soon, so I will check out @Ryan’s post by that time Glad you guys like the business card! I just hope I still have the same number when I switch to an iPhone in a month…

* Too bad Sjoerd and Dominiek are in a different timezone (well, so is Mark, but it’s earlier for him).

@iPhone - I can’t believe how cheap they are, in the UK we basically get £150 off, for the same contract, and same term length (18 months). However £60 will go towards my MobileMe subscription, which I think is going to be pretty impressive, all I want is the syncing, however it will be good to use the apps for inspiration.

@EntreList - Maybe we should only stick a few select tags, wipe what’s currently there, and just make sure we only use tags that are going to be used often. E.g: EntreList, External (for twitter, facebook, IILWY, etc), Wakoopa, TheWineGod, VoiceTracker. Obviously the list would be added to as we start new and exciting projects. I have a few more ideas, but will think them over before plurking them out (sounds like an appropriate phrase!) on Entrelist.

Speaking of which, I’ll just give a short run down of what I am up to at the moment. ThinkRefresh is coming along nicely, I am working on a series called Rails 101, for beginning Rails development, however there will be a lot of non-Rails Ruby content. My boss is going on a trip abroad next week to source wine for TheWineGod, and I will be beginning the e-commerce system.

I have been making a central account manager for use within a set of applications (CMS, e-commerce, issue tracking, client login etc), and in doing so I decided to port out the authentication as a plugin for Rails called Authenticaterb (http://github.com/ryantownsend/authenticaterb) which is also coming along great. I’ll soon be releasing another plugin aimed at easy to implement spam filtering.

@iPhone - Definitely getting one as soon as it gets out on July 11 Have to look into my current subscription, because it’s with a different carrier than the one Apple made an exclusive deal with.

@Plurk - Haven’t tried it yet. Any good?

@Entrelist - Maybe it would be a good idea to make ‘Recent Projects’ into a tag cloud, instead of a list. Also, I don’t think Entrelist is big enough to necessitate RSS feeds for the different ‘Projects’. The layout would look cleaner if these two changes were implemented. Finally, the quick post on the main page - when logged in - could use two things: (1) option to add a title - nice for the people who have EL in their RSS feeds (2) Make the text input field bigger, lets say twice as big? OK, those were my 2c

@Puke.com (my new name for it) - Yes really not happy with it. There is a point at which AJAX puts me off. There is no need to have the timeline open whilst I am editing my profile, so don’t popup a box on screen, just let me view a normal page.

@IILWY - Neil you might also want a dictionary… Unicron what a truly great game, much prefer it to Tetris, especially because people cheat so much, and you get some really stupid words.

@Neil - Hope it wasn’t Safari’s fault, don’t want you to give up on it or anything.

@Peter - thanks for the link. I came across that in my reader but I didn’t actually read it until you brought it to my attention. That’s EntreList-powered filtering at it’s best. Facebook do have a mainstream-friendly version of all the WebTech flavours-of-the-month, but they need to focus more on Twitter-esque coversation.

@Wakoopa, @Peter - congratulations on the new round of funding. The upcoming recommendation project sounds like it will be in safe hands then.

@Plurk.com - Ryan and I had a simultaneous Skype-chat/Plurk-testing session last night. It may be the hot topic right now, but I wasn’t particularly impressed with some of the design decisions, particularly those moving comment.count links…Has anyone else had a chance to try it?

@IILWY (I’mInLikeWithYou) - The guys at our favourite Tetris-morphing startup have added ‘Draw’ to their arcade suite. Ryan and I had a go on this too, and it’s pretty special (unless you’re using a trackpad, please use a mouse).