Hi, I’m Matt and I’m an entrepreneur & co-founder of Circa. I also happen to enjoy craft beer, music, and photography.Tumblr (3.0; @mattgalligan)http://mgalligan.com/<iframe src="https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:album:3DNHW2ckMRr3v0f7JF3HcR&view=coverart" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="width:500px;height:580px;"></iframe><br/><br/><p>This is my 8-bit anthem.</p>http://mgalligan.com/post/23619493851http://mgalligan.com/post/23619493851Wed, 23 May 2012 11:59:24 -0700musicspotify<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ha0kCZz51r8h8m2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://mgalligan.com/post/23612294786http://mgalligan.com/post/23612294786Wed, 23 May 2012 09:07:01 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ako1ZtBr1qz4tbjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://mgalligan.com/post/23376495278http://mgalligan.com/post/23376495278Sat, 19 May 2012 15:48:00 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4aahfEqsO1qz4tbjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://mgalligan.com/post/23364378661http://mgalligan.com/post/23364378661Sat, 19 May 2012 12:08:00 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m48r6dpE4H1qz4tbjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Lighthouse among blue sky. (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">Instagram</a> at Pigeon Point Light Station)</p>http://mgalligan.com/post/23314961322http://mgalligan.com/post/23314961322Fri, 18 May 2012 16:13:24 -0700<iframe src="https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:track:6sZmgTsyiF9ObnEniMISIc&view=coverart" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="width:500px;height:580px;"></iframe><br/><br/><p>This song gets me a little too amped up. It’s an amazing electronic remix of the Legend of Zelda theme.</p>http://mgalligan.com/post/23237226889http://mgalligan.com/post/23237226889Thu, 17 May 2012 11:05:22 -0700musicspotify<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m45chotMz11qz4tbjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My family’s in town for a few days. Brought them to the game to watch our Cardinals beat the Giants! (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">Instagram</a> at AT&T Park)</p>http://mgalligan.com/post/23208859529http://mgalligan.com/post/23208859529Wed, 16 May 2012 20:03:23 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m450ply5Af1qz4tbjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My buddy Jason is getting married. He asked of me me quite a difficult task.</p>http://mgalligan.com/post/23190039880http://mgalligan.com/post/23190039880Wed, 16 May 2012 15:48:00 -0700funny<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/C0kxf4DoE8M?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: In the comment section, Socialcam has stated that the pushed a “fix” for this. Because I’ve uninstalled the app and refuse to install it again, I can’t confirm that this is true, but I thought it important to point out.</p> <p><img src="http://f.cl.ly/items/3O2X3R3h2Q2Q3K3a3a41/Screen%20Shot%202012-05-15%20at%201.59.25%20PM.png" alt="Socialcam's Response"/></p> <p>Socialcam’s Shady Secret: I had a hunch that <a href="http://socialcam.com" target="_blank">Socialcam</a> was doing some really shady tactics to get more of a bump in engagement at the detriment of user experience. Looks like my hunch was right.</p> <p>The app has been on <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/25/socialcam-millions-users-app-update/" target="_blank">quite the tear</a> lately with how much it’s growing and getting insane engagement. It’s already been <a href="http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/05/10/socialcam-is-pumping-popular-youtube-videos-into-its-app-to-drive-usage-smart-or-seedy/" target="_blank">reported</a> that they’ve been ingesting YouTube videos to get a further increase, but I found something even shadier. Turns out they don’t respect the user’s wishes to <strong>not</strong> broadcast what videos I watch to their Facebook feeds.</p> <p>Every time someone watches a video on Socialcam it automatically publishes a story to their Facebook feed about the activity. Inside the app there’s a toggle to turn it off, but it turns out that’s not quite true. If you leave the app and come back, they turn it on again. To make matters worse, after a few seconds they replace the toggle with the Socialcam logo hiding the option to turn it off entirely.</p> <p>Sure this might have given them a much higher level of engagement by the simple nature of publishing more activity to Facebook, but at what cost? <strong>They’re misleading their users</strong> in a giant way and should answer for this. I for one am deleting the app, but I’m only one of millions unfortunately.</p>http://mgalligan.com/post/23113579600http://mgalligan.com/post/23113579600Tue, 15 May 2012 11:45:00 -0700socialcamviddyvideouser experienceuxshady<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m41d5dGG3y1qz4tbjo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Current status.</p>http://mgalligan.com/post/23067271154http://mgalligan.com/post/23067271154Mon, 14 May 2012 16:27:13 -0700current status<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m41btrJspp1qz4tbjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://mgalligan.com/post/23065147062http://mgalligan.com/post/23065147062Mon, 14 May 2012 15:58:36 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3yy7eJiXb1qz4tbjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This little guy was enjoying his breakfast at the table next to mine in the coffee shop. Oh, San Francisco. (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am" target="_blank">Instagram</a> at Four Barrel Coffee)</p>http://mgalligan.com/post/22975423197http://mgalligan.com/post/22975423197Sun, 13 May 2012 09:09:13 -0700<p><img src="http://f.cl.ly/items/0h1v2i3X2n1Y3k2v1n2x/abd-246.gif" alt=""/></p>http://mgalligan.com/post/22388001492http://mgalligan.com/post/22388001492Fri, 04 May 2012 09:54:51 -0700current statusfunnyhilariouswalrussaxaphone<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3i878XzwS1qz4tbjo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>May the Fourth be with you.</p>http://mgalligan.com/post/22384603278http://mgalligan.com/post/22384603278Fri, 04 May 2012 08:25:56 -0700star warsstar wars dayfunnyawesomehilarious<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m365vklWc71qz4tbjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Brothers</p>http://mgalligan.com/post/21954713075http://mgalligan.com/post/21954713075Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:04:00 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m35wgc3hcG1qz4tbjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://mgalligan.com/post/21941094646http://mgalligan.com/post/21941094646Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:40:59 -0700<p><a href="http://cir.ca" target="_blank"><img src="http://f.cl.ly/items/3w0N2e3W1E2E2v1o2u18/circaSplash.jpg" alt="Circa" width="660px"/></a></p> <p>My company, <a href="http://cir.ca" target="_blank">Circa</a> just launched our new landing page (which is above), company site, and <a href="http://blog.cir.ca" target="_blank">company blog</a>. I&#8217;m really proud of the team and extremely pleased with the aesthetic. As we get closer to the launch of our product, you&#8217;ll see how we&#8217;ve borrowed some of the elements from our app that&#8217;s in development and applied them to this site design.</p> <p>What do you think of it?</p>http://mgalligan.com/post/21802496599http://mgalligan.com/post/21802496599Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:18:50 -0700circadesignlaunchawesome<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2uqe2Bhc51qz4tbjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://mgalligan.com/post/21529635563http://mgalligan.com/post/21529635563Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:56:23 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2t6aytLVg1qcr7fqo1_r1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://lulinternet.com/post/21472500000" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">lulinternet</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>hold down alt/option while clicking the reblog button on your dashboard to see da supa fly gif i was contracted to make</p></blockquote>http://mgalligan.com/post/21509352717http://mgalligan.com/post/21509352717Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:48:24 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2qhym9Wjp1qz4tbjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Wally De Backer (Gotye) and me after his incredible show last night. Feeling quite fortunate. Been a fan for a long time. We chatted for a while about his rise to fame here. Incredible that this was his first US tour and he’s playing huge venues and selling out shows. Deserved for such an outstanding musician (and nice guy!).</p> <p>Here’s the song that got me into his stuff five years ago.</p> <iframe width="500" height="339" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GnXFJOXvL_A" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>http://mgalligan.com/post/21383767790http://mgalligan.com/post/21383767790Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:03:00 -0700gotyemusicwally de backerconcertawesome