Posts Tagged with ‘37signals’

Some of you may remember a Mozilla tool released last October known as Prism. This prototype-stage software, originally released only for Windows, showed Firefox users where the evolution of web apps was headed; towards site-specific browsers (SSBs).
Although a Mac version was eventually released (as well as a Linux one), Prism's cross-platform intentions don't exactly make for a native-feel when run within Mac OS X. Now, to provide a more seamless desktop experience with SSBs for Mac users, Todd Ditchendorf [...]

Should we expect everything on the Web to be free? Is anything really free even on ad supported sites? I was reading a post on the AuditorumA blog today - dealing with these very questions - and I think it is about time we wrestled with free versus paid as models for monetization. I have talked with AuditoriumA's CEO Tony Mars on a couple of occasions and I reviewed his upscale human search site last month. Tony makes some valid [...]

There are days when I think I should have a t-shirt that says "I survived Web 1.0" so that I'm easily identified as a bit of a skeptic when it comes to the next wave of cool new toys. My husband worked for a 1.0 start-up for five years. Many of our friends also worked for start-ups, often moving from start-up to start-up like tiny ants hopping from one domino to another as they fell during the dot-com bust. So [...]

We all know what notification systems are, right? Most web users come across and use notification systems constantly, whether they are entering their email address into a short form to be updated on the latest happenings at a website or trying to be notified when a new web service opens for beta testing or public use. There is one small problem here, that can be a setback for many people. The only way of receiving those handy notifications is to [...]

If you’ve been a staunch loyalist to the 37signals gang, you probably tossed my piece about GoPlan - a similar product to Basecamp written up and released by a firm called WeBreakStuff - aside as poppycock, rubbish, nonsense. Not that it was any of those things, but just to keep true to your favorite Ruby-based suite of collaboration and organization software. That’s understandable. I’ve got my faves, too. No one’s going to pull me away from Google’s apps. Nobody.
Even if [...]

We don’t know if ‘WeBreakStuff’ is a good label for a web design and programming house. What we can tell you is that at least one of the items to emerge from the company’s workshop is some quality work, inside and out.
It’s called GoPlan, and it is an application that helps teams collaborate on projects, period. It lets users take notes, maintain a calendar, manage tasks and files, track stuff (things that require debugging, etc.), and even publish a [...]

37signals, the team renowned for giving Ruby and her Rails a great rep, has had its five-some of web apps out for a while (in Internet years) now, so you can forgive us if we’re very curious to see what’s next on the firm’s agenda. Fortunately, they had an answer for anyone reading the company blog on Monday.
Posted on the Signal vs. Noise blog on the 12th, a tip by Jason Fried as to the happenings at home base was juicy [...]

I’m a web app geek. I like that some of my stuff (notes, to-do lists, etc.) will always be available anywhere there’s an internet connection. They’re good for those times when your main machine decides to act a fool. That’s happened to me before. A number of times. Unforunately, I hadn’t learned about applications based in a browser during those moments of worry and mayhem. And besides, only recently have they gotten good enough to seriously think about moving one’s [...]