We’re in the middle of a redesign for Kindling. It kicked off several months ago, motivated by some significant new features we’ll be rolling out later this year, and with the redesign comes a frenzy of activity. There are implications for sales, direction and (obviously) the team of developers and designers who embrace the vision [...]
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Creating a culture of leaders
As a democratic application, Kindling is well-versed in providing an even playing field. Every user, from the intern to the CEO, has the same amount of votes to spend. In this way, Kindling believes that anyone can have a good idea – and that no one gets more influence than anyone else. So if all [...]
Use it or lose it: the nomadic idea.
Lately it seems like Elizabeth Gilbert is most recognized as the woman who gave a brilliant TED talk on genius and the role of the muse in an artist’s life. Unless, of course, you refer to her as “the woman who wrote Eat, Pray, Love.” Then you get a totally different look of understanding, typically [...]
How is Kindling reputation calculated?
Who wants to know?! Seriously though, users gain reputation by interacting with Kindling. Your reputation score is a reflection of your activity in the system. High-value activities are most rewarded, including: submitting ideas commenting on ideas volunteering for ideas having an idea approved Other than that, we can’t tell you much more. Our reputation algorithm [...]
Why you shouldn’t stop innovation when faced with THE BUSY
As Product Manager on Kindling, I spend much of my week fielding feature requests and keeping track of enhancements we want to make to to the product. There are no shortage of these. Between customer feedback (thanks, by the way!) keeping an eye on our competition and exploring relationships with design partners, we could ride [...]
Part I: What Makes an Idea Good?
There are no good idea guarantees. Set up guidelines, encourage themed idea-drives, do whatever kind of marketing you want for good ideas. But you’ll never be 100% in the realm of goodness. (And who would want to be? Bad ideas provide the most fertile ground for better ones.) What I want to write about here [...]
The Case For Liberal Arts
I played the violin for 10 years while I was growing up. I wasn’t very good; I never aspired to be the next soloist or Julliard applicant. But I often think about the things we learned in that class, life lessons that have stuck with me. For example, our Hungarian director once told us about [...]
Storytelling for Kindling
When Rich presented Kindling to about 700 people at the NY Tech Meet-up on Monday evening, we had a group of about 10 Arc-ers representing a cheering section. Seeing our app on the big screen (aside several other talented technologists’ work) was as exciting and nerve-wracking as one might expect. Perhaps the best thing about [...]
Welcome.
Welcome to The Kindling Blog, a space for ideas about ideas. Kindling is about innovation. We here at Arc90 have been using Kindling for over a year and recently released it to the wild scene that is The Public. As a result, we’re pretty jazzed about ideas and we wanted to share that. This is [...]