When we started HomeGrownClone way back in 2002, our goal was to create a new type of web culture portal along the same lines of Pixelsurgeon, K10K, Design Is Kinky and the others -- but with a human cloning twist. Yeah, it's a random, but fun association and we dared to list the sites they wouldn't. We were always fans of these sites, but we were greeted with frustration when we submitted links for them to post about lesser known designer's sites (sometimes even our own). Often, our submissions were ignored...was it web snobbery, MAILER DAEMON issues, or something else? We'll never know, but HomeGrownClone was born so we could post web design and web culture news that WE felt was relevant. Fuck all the rest.
7 years later, Social Media and Web 2.0 is the new big thing...and those two terms are somewhat seemingly becoming interchangable. Web 2.0 seems to BE Social Media. Now, anyone can create a design news feed using Twitter (hell, we've got our own @
twitter.com/homegrownclone). So, out of the birth of Web 2.0 and Social Media came the idea for a new direction for HomeGrownClone. We are going to whore ourselves out to as many social media channels as we can...essentially completely changing the HGC experience for our fans (we hope, for the better). We'll still host a few fun pages, but mostly, you'll find us:
Posting The News Feed You Know And Love (@ twitter)
Blogging (here @
posterous.com)
Using Facebook (even though we do not yet know wtf to use it for when it comes to HomeGrownClone)
Sharing Our Bookmarks (@ delicious)
Listing Our Friends (@ friendfeed)
Sharing Fotofunk (@ flickr or bubbleshare.com <--
now dead or
smugmug.com ... we haven't decided yet)
[edit](and as suggested by rdub) Using
kontain.com for something cool...[/edit]
It will be a fun challenge to integrate all of these channels as we strive to maintain homegrownclone.com as the main point of entry.
So, be on the lookout for HomeGrownClone v.5. We're changing with the times online because the times have changed us.
[EDIT EARLY NOVEMBER 2009]
We're being as picky as it gets when it comes to the new HGC...or perhaps it's because we tried to code it on a giant plasma TV and ended up streaming a Netflix movie (see our latest update on the main page of
homegrownclone.com).
Whatever the case, we ARE still actively working on finishing up the new HGC, and it has been a lot of fun. A little progress for the random fan that happens to read this:
Our facebook page is now set up, but you won't see it yet. Bookmark
http://www.facebook.com/homegrownclone/ though as we have the URL set up.
Our intro page is coded. The song of choice is by, who else, Smashing Pumpkins. However, the song won't be revealed until we launch.
All interior pages hosted @ homegrownclone.com are built in one method or another. We just need to QC them a bit more and we're working on some fun promotional videos where you will actually SEE roto & rdub's faces...or will you?
There's a lot more fun in store, and we thank you for being a fan of HGC. In the meantime, "
We're all clones..."
[/EDIT EARLY NOVEMBER 2009]
