From: Mike Tatum <mike.tatum@gmail.com>
To: barriticus@gmail.com

me: he's going to push to get politicalbase as one of the 20 or 30 pre-programmed mediums it rolls out with
Mike: yes
Mike: ah yeo
me: the software end, rather
me: I may have mentioned that my room mate is in charge of Hearst's new digital paper product
me: speaking of which
Mike: once we get a few more things done, we're going to do a much bigger push
Mike: we're doing about a 1000 people a day, which is good considering we haven't started marketing yet
Mike: we also are going to do a polls product that ties to the news
Mike: we're going to get a news feed from Reuters and AP and create a general news section
Mike: i think we'll have some things up by the end of the week
me: also, how many hits are we up to thus far?
me: when are new features up?
Mike: right on
me: same old
Mike: how's it going with you?
Mike: but you make the point
me: oh, right
Mike: it's the tab at the top
Mike: exactly ;-)
me: elections?
Mike: elections is an example of not working
Mike: now that we've thrown it out there, we're going to offer some new features, fix a few others and remove some that are not working
Mike: we're retrenching a bit post launch
Mike: it's going pretty good
me: kind of slow news day so far
me: thanks, how's it going?
Mike: posts
Mike: good post this morning
Mike: thank you sir
Mike: nice!
me: good idea, actually..
me: word
Mike: see you in a bit...getting coffee
Mike: right on
me: nah, think I'm set for now
Mike: anything i can do for you?
Mike: really appreciate that
me: I'll keep you updated
me: he's in charge of all the non-hardware stuff, so should be able to get that done