Yesterday we were interviewed by KDFA News Channel 10 in Amarillo, Texas. They ran a great piece about POSTACRIME during their 5 and 6 o'clock news casts, it is definetly worth checking out. The link to the story is under featured videos on their frontpage.
We want to welcome all of our new users from Amarillo, and encourage you to tell your friends and family about POSTACRIME!
Friday, June 29, 2007
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
KOMO-TV Features POSTACRIME.COM
We were interviewed by Matt Markovich from KOMO-TV in Seattle about POSTACRIME.COM, click here to read the story and watch the segment.
We're having a ton of fun with the attention that POSTACRIME has recieved in only the first week of being live!
We're having a ton of fun with the attention that POSTACRIME has recieved in only the first week of being live!
Sunday, June 24, 2007
POSTACRIME on KOMO Radio Seattle
We received our first press coverage on Friday, June 22nd. KOMO Radio in Seattle, WA interviewed me about POSTACRIME and aired sound bytes of the interview during the 5 o'clock drive before the Mariners game. We're all very excited that word is starting to get out about POSTACRIME!
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
postacrime.com @ npost Networking Event
Last night I attended the npost.com Seattle Entreprenuer's Networking event with my long time friends Dan and Adam. Adam is a program manager at Payscale.com, and Dan and I went representing POSTACRIME, Dan was even kind enough to sport his POSTACRIME.COM Tshirt.
The event was held at the Great Nabob located on Lower Queen Anne and gathered some of the best (and worst) internet startup companies and ideas in the Seattle area.
I had a chance to talk with several people from different start ups, appature, Mixpo, Trenchmice, BuddyTV, and several guys that work with Adam at Payscale.
It was very interesting to hear people's thoughts and feedback on POSTACRIME, I enjoyed talking to people about our Web site and hearing how they would use it, or what they thought it could do. One guy I talked with thought initially that POSTACRIME would be used by good samaritans who want to post information about crimes they've witnessed. I don't suppose why it couldn't be!
The best thing I heard all night though was from Glenn Pingul who works at Mixpo. His comment was that POSTACRIME was using "Social Justice" to stop crime, and frankly I couldn't agree more.
Overall I thought the event was a lot of fun and I was able to meet and network with some very interesting people. I'll be anxious to follow the progress of the people and companies that attended.
The event was held at the Great Nabob located on Lower Queen Anne and gathered some of the best (and worst) internet startup companies and ideas in the Seattle area.
I had a chance to talk with several people from different start ups, appature, Mixpo, Trenchmice, BuddyTV, and several guys that work with Adam at Payscale.
It was very interesting to hear people's thoughts and feedback on POSTACRIME, I enjoyed talking to people about our Web site and hearing how they would use it, or what they thought it could do. One guy I talked with thought initially that POSTACRIME would be used by good samaritans who want to post information about crimes they've witnessed. I don't suppose why it couldn't be!
The best thing I heard all night though was from Glenn Pingul who works at Mixpo. His comment was that POSTACRIME was using "Social Justice" to stop crime, and frankly I couldn't agree more.
Overall I thought the event was a lot of fun and I was able to meet and network with some very interesting people. I'll be anxious to follow the progress of the people and companies that attended.
Saturday, June 16, 2007
POSTACRIME.COM - We Launch!
POSTACRIME.COM has launched our beta for the world to see today! You may be asking yourself what many people do when I first tell them about our idea, what is PostaCrime?
David, Greg, and I (Ben) started POSTACRIME.COM, a free service that allows business owners with CCTV (closed circuit television) systems to post photos and videos of people who rip them off on the internet. David and Greg have been in the security industry for 15 years, and they have seen all to many times where they help a business owner who just had $10,000 worth of merchandise stolen turn over the video of the criminals to the police.
Often times the police get a crystal clear photo of the criminal, and more often then not the criminals are not caught. Which makes sense, unless someone actually recognizes the criminal in the photo, or he or she is a repeat offender, it is next to impossible to identify them.
This is where POSTACRIME comes in. Now the police or the business owner can post the photo online for the public to help identify, they can even offer rewards to further encourage people to submit tips and help identify criminals. Our goal was to make a clean, intuitive user interface that allows the public to easily search for crimes by their zipcode. Users can submit tips online to the "Poster" and they in turn give that information to the police.
We think that posting people online who have committed crimes will not only help police bust criminals, but more importantly will serve as a formidable deterant for would be criminals. Business owners can display decals (available in our store) at their front and back entrances, cash registers, dressing rooms, or anywhere else to tell people that if they commit a crime, their face will be posted online.
I found an article recently which discusses how the West Yorkshire Police are sharing photos and videos of criminals on their Intranet website. The article explains that in the past 12 months, over 350 criminals have been identified and prosecuted. Can you imagine how many more would be caught if the general public were able to also view the content? POSTACRIME will allow them to share this content online with the general public for free.
We welcome any feedback about our website or any ideas that you may have about how to best make use of this powerful tool. We will keep you updated via this blog on our progress launching our "Internet Startup" and look forward to sharing our experiences with you in the future.
David, Greg, and I (Ben) started POSTACRIME.COM, a free service that allows business owners with CCTV (closed circuit television) systems to post photos and videos of people who rip them off on the internet. David and Greg have been in the security industry for 15 years, and they have seen all to many times where they help a business owner who just had $10,000 worth of merchandise stolen turn over the video of the criminals to the police.
Often times the police get a crystal clear photo of the criminal, and more often then not the criminals are not caught. Which makes sense, unless someone actually recognizes the criminal in the photo, or he or she is a repeat offender, it is next to impossible to identify them.
This is where POSTACRIME comes in. Now the police or the business owner can post the photo online for the public to help identify, they can even offer rewards to further encourage people to submit tips and help identify criminals. Our goal was to make a clean, intuitive user interface that allows the public to easily search for crimes by their zipcode. Users can submit tips online to the "Poster" and they in turn give that information to the police.
We think that posting people online who have committed crimes will not only help police bust criminals, but more importantly will serve as a formidable deterant for would be criminals. Business owners can display decals (available in our store) at their front and back entrances, cash registers, dressing rooms, or anywhere else to tell people that if they commit a crime, their face will be posted online.
I found an article recently which discusses how the West Yorkshire Police are sharing photos and videos of criminals on their Intranet website. The article explains that in the past 12 months, over 350 criminals have been identified and prosecuted. Can you imagine how many more would be caught if the general public were able to also view the content? POSTACRIME will allow them to share this content online with the general public for free.
We welcome any feedback about our website or any ideas that you may have about how to best make use of this powerful tool. We will keep you updated via this blog on our progress launching our "Internet Startup" and look forward to sharing our experiences with you in the future.
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