Posts Tagged ‘2.0

19
Mar

Highrise is live. Another killer 2.0 app?

9:05 pm in Calgary. Don't know yet. I'm signing up right now in the other tab of my browser…

9:08 pm. First nice thing: I logged in with my OpenID and it worked like a charm.

9:09 pm. First not-so-nice thing: Can't import people from a csv file, and it didn't alert me to a duplicate contact.

9:15 pm. Would be nice to have a go with the Cases feature, but I'll have to upgrade to the paid version for that. Not convinced yet.

9:32 pm. OK, I caved in record time. I need the cases feature and have signed up for a Plus account.

I am, however, seriously annoyed that I didn't get a free 30-day trial on the Plus version, because I upgraded from the Free one. Great, 27 minutes and I lost $49.

10:07 pm. Now I've gone from seriously annoyed to seriously impressed. David Heinemeir Hansson emailed me directly to offer me a free month. Let's add customer service to the list of things these guys are really good at.

Update, March 20th. I've been using Highrise quite a bit today. Really starting to see the power of the application, but it's quite onerous having to add contacts one by one. Just discovered I can export everything from my Apple Address Book into one vCard, and then import that into Highrise. That's not bad, I guess.

Lots of positive press for the 37signals guys so far. 

05
Mar

Getting Ready to Gaboogie

We are making good daily progress and the crew is on track for our internal beta, which is just around the corner. The interface is still quite boring to look at but it excites me knowing where we will be, two weeks from now. The foundation has been laid, the walls are framed and the roof will be mostly done by the end of the week.

Next week we are within sight of the finish line, although it seems to continually move one way or the other the closer we get. If you are interested in getting in on the action just go to www.gaboogie.com to register for the beta. You will never think of teleconferencing the same way again.

P.S. Why is it whenever I budget for network hardware it always ends up being at least 20% more expensive when I actually order it? It’s a good thing we think of these things when creating the financials… errr, we did think of that right Dan?