I was down at Ad:Tech this morning talking with MySpace and noticing how many companies have suddenly transformed themselves into online advertising “marketplaces” or “exchanges”, and I ran into a local SF celeb: Justin.TV himself! Needless to say, we hit Justin with the CreditCovers on the spot, and hooked him up with a few samples to pass along.
I’ve been trying to find the clip in his archives, but it’s a little tricky. I snapped the above pic about 12:08pm today (April 26, 2007). Here’s the deal - whoever is first to send us the link from his archives to the clip of me hitting him up gets a three free CreditCovers! Just cruise thru the Justin.TV archives, find the spot, and mail us the link. Hit it!
CreditCovers artist Food One will be at the APE show this week in San Fransisco, CA. He’ll have a limited number of CreditCovers for distribution. Food One is so cool, when I gave our patent attorney a sample Mizz Lady Pink he said “Isn’t this Jim Mahfood, that comic book artist?”. Rad. So, if you’re on the left coast this weekend, check out Food One and APE, and if you’re on the right coast, be sure to hit up the Lit Lounge. Of course, if you’ve got private jet time, you might be able to hit up both.
CreditCovers is about to f*ck your heads up. We’ve locked down the Lit Lounge on Manhattan’s lower east side, Friday April 20th to cover the cards of NYC’s sexiest… Join us for a night of debauchery, punk rock, freebies, and the hottest people of whichever genders light your fire. COME GET COVERED!
Friday April 20th, 2007
9pm - Close
The Lit Lounge
93 2nd Ave.,
East Village
New York, NY 10003
Map: http://tinyurl.com/2qwc39
Feel free to invite anyone who you think will liven things up…
CreditCovers is proud to announce our first round of retail locations. Of course, you can always find CreditCovers right here on CreditCovers.com, but if you’re in San Francisco, Madison, Minneapolis, or Cedarburg (that’s in Wiscompton, yo), you can find CreditCovers In Real Life. Here’s a list of stores currently carrying CreditCovers:
…and here’s a map, using Google’s new MyMaps feature. We’re stoked to have CreditCovers in so many places already, and you can expect to see them in many, many more locations real soon.
Congrats to Hirai M. on becoming the first person in Japan to order CreditCovers! Hirai decided to roll strong with a few Money in the Bank, a Louis the XIV and a Blackout. Nice choices!
We gave him a call to congratulate him. Luckily, his english was better than our Japanese, and we were able to chat. We’ll most likely keep up this trend of drunk dialing our customers, so be warned.
We’ve got designs for Series #2 lined up from a bunch of super-hot artists, including Todd Francis, Plastic God, CERN, and more by CreditCovers Series 1 artist Jessica Lansdown, just to name a few. Series #2 is going to be amazing - sign up for our newsletter or RSS feed to be sure you get the word as soon as they hit the street!
CreditCovers are blowing up this morning! First off, in addition to being featured on Charles & Marie’s Soupe du Jour, we’ve got CreditCovers for sale on SukaraSterling.com, another super-hot online retailer. Along with that, we’re seeing coverage pop up on all sorts of blogs all over the world: OhGizmo, Techie Diva, DotGizmo, Uneasy Silence, Didn’t You Hear?, GeekSugar, Popgadget, Vox, Original Signal, CoolHunting, CNET Gadgets (France), Expressen (Sweden), Macadelic (Germany), Gizmodo (Netherlands), Que Curioso, Jo Que Cosas, at least one site in Israel, at least two sites in Japan, and who knows where else! At least one of our customers has already blogged about CreditCovers too! With all this love, we had to get some hate too — but hey, we Love the Hate. Keep Rocking!
CreditCovers aficionados everywhere will be happy to know that CreditCovers are being featured for the next 24 hours on Charles & Marie, the super-cool lifestyle, travel, and shopping site!
Charles & Marie is something everyone can use, a ‘lifestyle navigator, covering the world’s most exciting destinations and carefully selected, exclusive and limited lifestyle products from around the globe’ — sort of a Coolhunting for the global fashionista. Their Soupe du Jour is a rotating daily feature of the latest ultra-cool product discovered by the C&M’s roaming experts — and several CreditCovers designs are right there, right now. Check ‘em out!
Just a quick plug for Qunu, a super cool, free, live chat-based tech support service - a great application of the Mechanical Turk concept. Pixa @ Qunu just helped CreditCovers with a little CSS issue - thanks Qunu!
