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Mar 22

Calling all Bay Area Devs! Register for Aviary and Facebook’s Photo Hack Day 4!

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Photo Hack Day is back, and it’s better than ever!

Developers and designers, register for free now.

Photo Hack Day 4

Join Aviary, Sincerely and Facebook on April 6-7 for Photo Hack Day, hosted at FB HQ in Menlo Park, CA!

Photo Hack Day is an exciting, weekend-long coding marathon, brings together talented developers and designers to build amazing applications using web and mobile photo API’s.

We’ll be there featuring our Ship API, and providing hands on support. We’ll also be offering awesome prizes for the best uses of the API.

This year is going to be huge, some highlights include:

  • Design firms will be on hand to help attendees add a sharp visual flair to their amazing apps. Many thanks to Monkey Republic Design, Method and Yeti!
  • Way awesome catered meals, courtesy of Cater2.me
  • Over $15K in cash and prizes including iPads, some kick-ass cameras, iPhone lenses, a killer Lego set, and more
  • The chance to have an Aviary filter named after you (rewarded to the best use of the Aviary API)
  • Amazing sponsors – Facebook, Walgreens, AMD, Shutterstock, Filepicker.io, Dropbox, Getty Images, Cater2.me, Fujifilm, Chute, Sincerely, Tumblr, Foursquare, and OF COURSE, Aviary.

Chute is hosting the Official Pre-Party for Photo Hack Day sponsors and attendees, register here for an amazing night of food, music and drinks courtesy of Chute!

New to Photo Hack Day? Read more about it here.

Nov 19

Fighting Cancer Ink by Ink

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Love Ink?  Hate cancer?  Us too.  This Holiday Season, we’ve teamed up with Maurices, a department store for fashion savvy young women, to fight cancer while spreading holiday cheer.  Maurices has designed a special card for us in Ink that is free to send, and supports a good cause.  For every one of these cards sent, Maurices will donate $1 to the American Cancer Society Hope Lodge.  The Hope Lodge offers cancer patients and their caregivers a free, temporary place to stay when their best option for treatment is in another city.

The Maurices card can be found in our Holiday collection, and is free to send.  Thank you to our friends at Maurices for their generosity, and to the American Cancer Society for this wonderful program.

 

 

 

 

 

Oct 18

24 Hours of Bulk Credit Savings: Today ONLY!

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Today only we are offering bulk Sincerely credits at 25% off to give you a head start on your holiday to-do’s.  Below are some things we’d love to save you this Holiday Season by buying bulk.

  • TIME!  Waiting in line at the post office during the holidays?  No THANK you. Spend that time on the fun stuff like pumpkin carving and snowball fights and watching Elf for the hundredth time.
  • $ $ $  Buy your bulk credits, save up to $73.50, then go buy yourself something nice  We won’t tell anyone.
  • ENERGY  The Holidays can be seriously draining.  Buy in bulk now, and don’t worry about ordering, stamping and sending your cards later. We take care of printing and shipping and will track your cards to make sure they get to your loved ones mailbox safely.

Check out the brand new Ink Holiday Video by Pete Gill for some Holiday Ink-spiration.  Cheers!

Jul 5

Photo Hack Day 3

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It’s baaaacccckkkk!  Photo Hack Day 1 and 2 have come and gone, and 3 is right around the corner!

The original Photo Hack Day was the first image-centric hackathon in New York City, bringing together the brightest minds in photography, photo-editing, web design, computer science, and more. In 24 hours, over 200 developers put together an impressive 43 hacks with APIs contributed from 25 companies.

Join Sincerely, Aviary, Facebook, Dropbox and MORE for the Photo Hack Day 3.  Sinerely’s Ship API, which allows developers to integrate a ‘Print and Ship Postcard’ feature will be available for hacks.

When: July 14th-15th, 2012

Where: Dropbox HQ

185 Berry St, San Francisco, CA 94107 Cost: Free!

How: Register at photohackday3.eventbrite.com Learn More: photohackday.org 

Award-winning hacks in the past have included:

  • PhotoBot, a robotic photo analysis tool that provides suggestions for taking better pictures
  • Emotional Breakdown, an experimental visualization of the mood of people in photographs (featured app in Mashable)
  • Synviary, a collaborative image editing platform
  • HoneyBadger, a motion detector security system that enables your computer to know who’s looking at your screen

Hope to see you there!

Jun 29

Hack for eCommerce With Etsy and Dwolla

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Raise your hand if you like buying online.  Selling?  Raise your hand if you think you could make the experience even better.  Yeah?  Show us what you’ve got!

Dwolla and Etsy are teaming up to bring NYC eCommerce Hack Day to be held at The Hatchery August 4th through the 5th.  The hackathon is focused on building anything eCommerce related which can mean different things to different people and is sure to bring diverse results.  Devs beware: There is a puzzle to solve to prove yourself eCommerce Hack Day worthy. This ensures an event high in quality and competition and,  once solved, grants the first 200 devs free access.  Designers are welcome too! Head over to the signup page to claim your free ticket. Prizes and judges to be announced 1-2 weeks before the event.

Sign up for the event here.

 

Jun 18

Weduary For Ink: A Wedding Collection by Sincerely and Brit & Co.

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Sincerely and Brit & Co. just launched a new wedding stationery collection within the Sincerely Ink app showcasing fresh wedding designs inspired by Weduary.

All of the Sincerely Ink designs in the Weduary by Brit & Co Wedding Collection coordinate and complement the wedding website designs offered through Weduary.

Couples can create wedding stationery ranging from photo Save the Dates to Thank You notes. See how newlyweds Bryan and Heidi used Sincerely Ink for their wedding stationery.

Weduary for Ink Designs

Also included in the collection are Bridal Shower and Bachelorette Party Invitations and “Will You Be My Bridesmaid” Cards.  Weduary allows couples to create social wedding websites, and now with matching Sincerely Ink card designs, sending your wedding stationery has never been easier or more fun!

We are holding a contest for couples in celebration of Weduary For Ink! There are two ways to enter:
  • For the grand prize of FREE stationery for your wedding, enter the Weduary by Brit & Co Photo Contest through the Sincerely Facebook page or by going here.  The best photo with the most votes wins!  Find your photo and tell your friends and family to do the same!  You may submit photos through June 25th, and then voting will commence the 25th and end on the 2nd of July.
  • For other prizes including 25 free cards for your wedding, tweet a pic of you and your significant other with hashtag #WeduaryforInk.  We will give out prizes of 25 free cards to the best pics tweeted twice per week!

Jun 15

Summer summer summer time!

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It’s summer time and the weather calls for barbeques, potlucks and sunset cocktail hours. Planning a party?  We just released a new batch of summer themed invitations, get ‘em while they’re (and the weather is) hot.  To complete your shindig, below is a recipe for the quintessential summer cocktail, cheers!  Have a great weekend!
Pimm’s Cup
  • 2 oranges, cut into half-moons
  • 2 lemons, cut into half-moons
  • 1 Persian cucumber (see Notes) or one 3-in.-long piece English cucumber, washed and sliced
  • 2 cups Pimm’s No. 1 (see Notes)
  • 4 cups Sprite or other lemon-lime soda $
  • 6 to 8 large sprigs mint, crushed gently, plus a few loose leaves


PREPARATION

  1. Fill 2 pitchers 1/4 full with ice. To each, add a layer of orange slices, a few lemon slices, and a layer of cucumber slices. Repeat the layering. Pour in the Pimm’s and Sprite, dividing between pitchers, and mix with a long-handled spoon. Poke mint sprigs and leaves down into drink. Divide drink among 8 tall glasses, with a few slices of fruit and cucumber in each glass, along with some mint leaves.
  2. Notes: Persian cucumbers are small, thin-skinned, virtually seedless, and very tasty. They’re sold at well-stocked grocery

Recipe Credit: Valerie Aikman-Smith, Sunset
AUGUST 2007

Jun 14

MuuMuu Wednesday: Waffles and Vietnamese Coffee

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RPSYesterday may have been the greatest days in the Sincerely office.  Ever.  For some time now, Wednesdays have been dubbed “Waffle Wednesday”, so it’s become standard to walk into an office filled with the aroma of waffles on the iron, and a spread of maple syrup, fruit, whipped cream, and homemade butter.  Yes, we are spoiled.  Yesterday, something special happened:  The gals from the SF Vietnamese pop-up, Rice Paper Scissors came in, set up shop, and served DELICIOUS Vietnamese coffee to a rotating door of friends, fans and building mates.  Needless to say, we were a caffeinated and happy bunch.  We could get used to this.