What is MyFrontSteps all about?
A) Connecting homeowners with local experts that their friends trust and recommend.
B) Jazz music and funny violence.
C) All of the above.
Watch for a cameo by our CEO Brendan King, and non-speaking appearances by several other MyFrontSteps personalities.
PS. If you missed the earlier Spokesmonster cartoons, you can find them all over on the Spokesmonster blog.
PPS. No, seriously, What is MyFrontSteps all about?
The MyFrontSteps community is all about connecting home owners with local home experts, and StepRep is where the experts hang out. You can read about the latest changes to our trusty reputation monitoring service over on the StepRep Blog.
Brendan, Allan, and Jeff were down at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, and they wandered around with Allan’s new videocamera asking people, “What have you done to make your house a home?” They brought me back the footage and said, “Here, make some promotional videos.” But, being a glutton for work, I thought instead I would make some promotional cartoons.
Here’s Vanessa Fox talking about reclaiming her home office space:
Robert Scoble talks about guys and their toy rooms:
This is Alice Myerhoff of Inman News, bein’ organic and what-not:
Jennifer Pahlka, general manager of the Web 2.0 Expo, spends all of her money and all of her time on her house:
PS. Some of our visitors might be wondering, What the heck is MyFrontSteps?
We introduced our Facebook application Homebook into the wild over a month ago now. But it’s been skulking in the trees, out of sight, and returning to the lab every night for our mad scientists to inject it with nanobots and graft microchips to its skull. Until now we weren’t sure it was strong enough to survive on its own. But we believe this latest round of surgery has done it: Homebook is finally ready to leave the nest.
Homebook lets you upload photos to create a little tour of your house. It also connects you with local home service providers and lets you pose questions and request quotes – anonymously, if you want. Down the line, when you’re looking for a carpenter or a plumber or whatever, instead of thumbing aimlessly through the yellow pages you’ll just log into Homebook and find out who your friends recommend.
The whole point is to connect homeowners with home service providers. But we want Homebook to be a fun experience on its own, even when you’re not looking for somebody to regrout your bathroom tiles. Snapping photos of your rec room may or may not be fun for you. But looking at photos of other people’s rec rooms is usually enlightening. And as the app spreads, and more photos get uploaded, we’ll make it possible to browse not just your friend’s photos, but random (anonymous) photos from your town and around the world. That’ll be fun. It’s coming.
There’s a lot more I could talk about, but it’s easier if you simply try it yourself. Homebook is just learning to fly. Why not grab a handful of fur and enjoy the ride?
