Zazzle, User generated content

Here's a nice letter from Josh Reeves, who visited us from Zazzle.

I want to apologize for my tardy note but I want to thank you for inviting me to speak to the fellows a few weeks ago. I really enjoyed the chance to share my thoughts about Zazzle with the class and also have a great conversation about user-generated content, empowering users and building community online. It is a very exciting company to be working at and I feel that there is a ton of potential in messaging artists all over the world that they can now be compensated for their creation and also control the presentation and use of their art. This is one part of Zazzle’s ultimate vision but it is the part that gets me most excited because it is really all about removing the barriers to entry (no cost to design or publish products) and creating new avenues of using the web that leverages it’s foundation as a fundamentally social ecosystem.  

I was traveling the past several days and I am looking forward to spending Thanksgiving with family. I trust you will have a great rest of the week and please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions at all about Zazzle or the ideas we are championing. Jeff and Bobby Beaver, two of the Zazzle co-founders will be speaking on campus in January (1/26/2005 in TermandAud at 4:30 PM) and everyone is invited to attend.

Best,

Josh