Kevo has a new vital stats section where you can add all kinds of fact and figures for your favorite athlete, movie star or musician. Check it out.
Vitals Stats
October 8th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized
Oct, 08 2010
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Video Search on KEVO
July 22nd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized
Jul, 22 2010
In the latest version of KEVO, we have added Video Search. Open a fan club and click on the Video Search button in the action banner, right next to the main photo. Within a second or two you can search the Internet for videos for that person. Click on the video that you want and it will play. Pretty cool and easy to use. Check it out.
KEVO Debugging process
July 14th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized
Jul, 14 2010
We have found and eliminated many bugs over the past week. Have a few more to go. Thanks for your patience. One of our Real Time feeds is not working but that is because they are taking too long to load. We will address that next week.
KEVO Search is Working
July 4th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized
Jul, 04 2010
We fixed the bug in our search technology and the new search feature is functional. Our search feature will not only find fan clubs, but relevant content and images. Check it out.
Search Not Working
July 2nd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized
Jul, 02 2010
We have built a pretty powerful internal search feature. Right after launching we found a bug in it so search does not work. We have fixed the bug and will be re-indexing KEVO overnight so search should work Saturday July 3. Sorry for the inconvenience. Growing pains…
The new KEVO is born
July 2nd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized
Jul, 02 2010
W
e made it… finally. Lots of bugs still but we are fixing those as we go along. www.KEVO.com
Here is an example of the new fan club format on KEVO: Pink
Morning of July 1st 2010
July 1st, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized
Jul, 01 2010
We did not launch last night. Too much testing left to do. We are shooting for Noon today. I will be happy with … today. That would still be July 1. We still have site work and lots of server work. We made lots of progress yesterday but still had about 20 technical issues left and were about to turn into pumpkins. Today is launch day. Today is the day. I sound like the Chicago Cubs. I think they lost again yesterday but today we win. Today KEVO wins! … and go Cubs.
It’s 6:00AM
June 30th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized
Jun, 30 2010
It’s 6:00 AM June 30th. We are supposed to launch today and the action list still has about 35 things on it. Most of them I view as required to launch. Dropping things off the list is a challenge because it evokes a feeling of loss… After months of work one gets attached to ideas, features, parts of the whole. Things keep breaking which is good. We have to fix them now. This is real bootstrap stuff. Underfunded, overworked. The mantra is get it done, get it out there and wing it. Just push forward. Organizing all the media and information about the world’s prominent people should not be easy but somebody has to do it. It is hard to remember when this was not a mission. Way back before the Internet bust of 2000. Long time. Not even close to accomplishing it. This new launch is just one piece in a very big puzzle. The User Interface is not very close but I am going to launch anyway. Will improve that on the run. Hired a designer to help a while back but he moved, got busy and dropped balls all over the place so had to do more work. So did our lead coder. Whatever… keep pushing. Par for the course I guess when you can’t just through money at something. Had a significant offer for funding in April but it was the wrong deal, wrong guy. Did not feel right. Taking in a partner is like getting married. Been there done that.
Why the hell is that one feed not working… back to work
Kevo is now on Twitter
May 27th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized
May, 27 2010
Kevo is on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/kevomedia
Enter KEVO
May 27th, 2010 Posted in History
May, 27 2010
With the advent of open source technology I knew I could build a new company without having the raise millions. I wrote a new business plan and set out building a new site. I brainstormed hundreds of names before coming 
up with KEVO. I used a spread with the letters of the alphabet at the top and names down the rows. I wanted a four letter domain that sounded uplifting. Sounds easy but it is not.
By this time I had a lead developer and co-founder in the project named Will. He loved the name too so I bought it. It was already taken so I had to purchase it for thousands of dollars but I knew it was my future so I went for it. Will and I, along with two other developers, built the first Kevo site. The first Kevo had a fairly robust set of features but it a bit complicated for the users in hindsight. In addition, the site kept breaking and became very slow. These are two major problems that have plagued us.
The good news is that traffic increased in spite of these technical problems. This was very encouraging to me but after a few months I knew a major re-build was needed. In 2008 the economy imploded and it became very difficult to raise funds. This felt very familiar to me having gone through the Internet bust. I kept evolving my plan for the rebuild and expansion of the site and decided to “self fund”.
Damn the torpedoes… just keep going.