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We are excited to announce that MetaLab has won a Webby Award for TED Connect! While having the opportunity to work on this app was a reward in and of itself we’re thrilled and honoured to be recognized – especially when competing with the likes of the BBC, NYTimes, MLB, and 2012 Olympics. Those weeks of late nights were worth it, despite the grumbling from certain significant others. Love you babe.

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What do immigrants have to offer this country? Only entrepreneurship, job creation, economic investment, scientific advancement and pride in the country they now call home. But why would we want any of that?

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Does our current immigration policy hold us back from $329 billion dollars?

Check out “Terrence’s Chalkboard” to answer that question. Terrence is the UC - Berkeley Math Club President, so we’re pretty sure he knows his math, and he’s also one of the 11 million Dreamers will would be impacted by The Dream Act and immigration reform.

We think Terrence deserves a path to citizenship. If you think so to then check out our website, Twitter and Facebook Page.

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Introducing: The New Pixel Union

Last night, at the end of a thirteen hour day, we completed our new website. Where the last site was corporate, the new one is human. Where the former site was scant, the new one is verbose. I couldn’t be happier with what we’ve done over the past few months. I’ve never seen my team so scrappy and undernourished, but boy did it ever pay off.

Please head on over to our homepage and explore our hard work. Let us know what you think. PixelUnion.net.

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Scotch Tape Faces (21 Pics)

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Smash Mouth: Recipes from the Road: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Cookbook

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How far the mighty have fallen.

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If you vote against Obama because he can't get stuff done, it's kind of like saying, 'This guy can't cure cancer. I'm gonna vote for cancer.'"

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Spent an evening redesigning TED.com for fun. View Full-size

Introducing a Brand New Ballpark

After eight months of hard work, we're excited to share a brand new Ballpark. After many false starts over the past few years, we've knuckled down, built an amazing new team, and redesigned the app from the ground up. We've also added some great new features to the mix, including time tracking—our most requested feature—and a slick new iPhone app. You're going to love it. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, Ballpark gives you everything you need to run a small business in one app. You can send estimates, track your time, invoice your clients, and keep track of cash flow, all in one place. Can't wait to hear everyone's feedback. Check it out and let us know what you think: http://getballpark.com -Andrew

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There’s a big difference between money and ideas. Money buys desks and pays salaries. Ideas buy you evangelical customers and set you apart from the crowd. We’ve built an amazing company around our ideas, and now we want to help others do the same. With our consulting work, we’ve helped hundreds of great companies build amazing products and services, but we’ve gotten big. Most small startups—the people we built our business around six years ago—can no longer afford us. Today, we’re changing that with Design Capital. Design Capital is different from Venture Capital. It isn’t about money, it’s about execution and ideas. We see too many smart entrepreneurs obsessing over securing massive investments and primping their advisory board instead of executing. Tim O’Reilly puts it best: “You should regard money as fuel for what you really want to do, not as a goal in and of itself. Money is like gas in the car—you need to pay attention or you’ll end up on the side of the road—but a well-lived life is not a tour of gas stations.” We want to give entrepreneurs rocket fuel for great ideas, help them excute better, and build profitable real-world businesses. We won’t be writing big checks or pimping our companies as acquisition targets, but instead using our wealth of experience and amazing team to provide our companies with the resources to build simple, useful, and profitable web-based software and services. This could mean design work, strategy, marketing, or development. Whatever the weak spot is, we’ll fill in the gap. We won’t be making a lot of investments, probably only a couple per year. We’re looking for people with great ideas that are in it for the long haul, not serial entrepreneurs looking for a quick flip. If you think we’d work well together, we’d love to talk. Learn More

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