Today We're hiring an iOS/mobile developer- Between Draft, Campfire, and Highrise, we’ve been building quite the iOS portfolio of applications. We want to take good care of them and continue building more iOS and mobile applications, so we’re hiring a dedicated programmer for the task.
Think you’re up for it? Check out the complete job posting on the 37signals Job Board.
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- Today A little bit of empathy goes a long way.
- While driving home this afternoon, my wife’s car was rear-ended. The car that she was following stopped suddenly, forcing her to stop suddenly. The next driver in the chain wasn’t quite able to stop in time. Fortunately, nobody in either car was hurt, but, it was pretty traumatic for my wife and kids and my 6 year old son, Noah, was crying.
Enter the North Carolina Highway Patrol. Police officers often get a reputation for being cold or unsympathetic, and I’ve certainly m…(more)
- Yesterday Nuts & Bolts: Storage
- Next up in the Nuts & Bolts series, I want to cover storage. There were a number of questions about our storage infrastructure after my new datacenter post asking about the Isilon storage cluster that is pictured.
To set the stage, I’ll share some file statistics from Basecamp. On an average week day, there are around 100,000 files uploaded to Basecamp with an average file size that is currently 2MB for a total of about 200GB per day of uploaded content in Basecamp. And that’s…(more)
- Yesterday Product Blog update: Campfire for iPhone, Draft update, favicon/iPhone icons in Basecamp, etc.
- Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:
Campfire
Introducing Campfire for iPhone
Ember officially became 37signals Campfire for iPhone (iTunes App Store link). As an added bonus, we’ve dropped the price from $9.99 to $0.00. Campfire for iPhone is free!
Draft
Draft for iPad updated to version 1.0.1
Draft, our iPad app that lets you quickly-sketch-and-share via email or Campfire, has been updated to 1.0.1. The update is now available in the App Store. Included in this up…(more)
- Yesterday VIDEO: SVA Dot Dot Dot Lectures: Jason Santa Maria…
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SVA Dot Dot Dot Lectures: Jason Santa Maria on web vs. print. “These things might seem obvious, but they’re not the conversations we’re having.” (via RS)
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- 3 days QUESTION: What could we be better at?
- What could we be better at?
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- 3 days Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: TechSmith, Litmus, iData, and A Small Orange
- Below: We’re getting so many submissions for our “Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud” series that it’s tough to find room to profile everyone. So here’s a roundup post featuring a quick look at several different companies that have $1M+ in revenues, didn’t take VC, and are profitable.
Litmus
Litmus is a tool for email marketers. It helps them test their email designs across a range of different email clients. The founders attended 37signals’ Building …(more)
- 3 days Creating a design library
- We’ve got some bookshelves in the new office.
We want to fill them with inspirational pictures of design, landscapes, architecture, objects, ideas, industrial design, automotive design, type, materials, layouts. Nothing web-related. Anything that would inspire a spark by flipping through the pages. Words not required.
Got any winners?
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- Today Perfect your progress bars
- Improve your conversion rates in online stores and surveys by paying more attention to progress bars and their underlying markup, says Craig GrannellContinues...…(more)
- It"s not you, it"s my mobile
- Looking for a frustrating, disappointing and ultimately futile experience? There’s an app for that, says Gary MarshallContinues...…(more)
- The brains behind: One Million Giraffes
- Norwegian web developer Ola Helland made a bet with his friend to crowd-source one million hand-made giraffes. We caught up with him to hear the full storyContinues...…(more)
- Mark Pincus
- Fast-growing startup Zynga is leading the social game revolution. Oliver Lindberg talks to Mark Pincus, its founder and CEO, about his recipe for success and how a major scandal left the company’s popularity pretty much undentedContinues...…(more)
- Create the perfect prototype
- Master prototyping and your final site build will be a cakewalk. Odette Colyer of user experience design consultancy Super User Studio explains how to go about itContinues...…(more)
- Create an interactive poster
- Adrian Rowbotham of digital production agency Pirata London explains how to make a poster that users can customise with their own text and photoContinues...…(more)
- Embrace mega menus
- Kids" stuff
- When it’s time to put away childish things, does that include cutting-edge tech? Gary Marshall is suddenly feeling his ageContinues...…(more)
- Today Dave McClure Files For $30 Million Venture Fund: 500 Startups
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In January, we broke the news that prolific Silicon Valley angel investor Dave McClure was to set up its own venture capital fund.
Yesterday, the man filed for the fund with the SEC, providing us with more details (hat tip to FormDs.com). The name will be 500 Startups – McClure has long called himself the master of 500 hats – and the initial fund will amount to max. $30 million according to the filing.
McClure has turned to 99 Designs to come up with a logo for the fund (my favorite…(more)
- Today Why Apple Should Buy Infineon: To Own Mobile And Screw Intel
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Apple’s earnings and revenue growth in mobile have been awe-inspiring to witness. From zero presence three years ago, Apple is now the most profitable cell phone maker in the world.
Apple’s success in this compressed period has helped it become an enormous buyer of components. In fact iSuppli projects that next year Apple will become the second-largest semiconductor buyer worldwide and may edge out HP in 2012 to become the world’s largest.
Though this scale presents Apple with enormous ba…(more)
- Today China’s Focus Media Sells Internet Division Allyes To Silver Lake For $124 Million
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Focus Media, one of China’s leading digital media groups, this morning announced that it is selling a 62% indirect equity ownership of its Internet division, Allyes, to US-based private investment firm Silver Lake.
Under the terms of the agreement, Silver Lake will pay $124 million to Focus Media, in exchange for the equity ownership of Allyes. Focus Media had acquired the internet advertising service company, reportedly the largest in China, back in February 2007.
Certain remaining shar…(more)
- Today 100,000 Android Applications Submitted To Date, AndroLib Claims
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Despite earlier reports to the contrary, Android Market watcher AndroLib says there aren’t 100,000 applications available in the store – yet. There have, however, 100,000 apps been submitted to Android Market since its public debut, the site wagered this morning, up from approximately 5,000 in June 2009.
The Androlib directory covers multiple markets, including international ones, so not all apps and games are available in the United States, necessarily. Not all markets are counted,…(more)
- Today Bloomberg: No Facebook IPO Before 2012, Probably
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Bloomberg reports that Facebook is to – probably – put off an eventual IPO until at least 2012, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
Waiting at least another year (and a half, approximately, to be clear) would reportedly give CEO Mark Zuckerberg more time to follow through on his vision without too much public scrutiny and the implications thereof, attract more users and developers, book more sales and work out other issues, such as the user privacy kerfuffle and l…(more)
- Today Apple Quietly Settles Patent Lawsuit, Promptly Gets Hit With Another One
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Ah, the good ol’ patent minefield.
According to Law360, a paywall-shielded newswire for lawyers, Apple yesterday settled a patent infringement lawsuit with patent troll Minerva Industries, whose website is apparently currently, ahem, ‘temporarily closed under repair’.
This morning, Apple was hit with another patent infringement suit, brought on by Israeli technology holding Emblaze, which alleges the Cupertino company has refused to license its media streaming technology at i…(more)
- Today It’s Hard To Tell If Voyurl Or Their Ads Are Creepier
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A few weeks ago, we were alerted to a new site currently in stealth mode called Voyurl. As the name implies, the idea behind it is to make it so you can see what other people are looking at on the web (and to make your clickstream seen). It sounds creepy as hell. It’s like Blippy but with more potential porn. I love it.
But when I tried to sign up for the service, they sent me a note back that it wasn’t quite ready yet and that they were cranking on the beta. Fine, that happens from…(more)
- Today The New Kindle, And Ebooks Generally: My Questions Answered [Video]
- All this talk about the new Kindle reminded me that I still have some questions about Amazon’s e-reader specifically, and ebooks generally. Why do people persist in comparing the Kindle to the iPad (something I first asked months ago); what is the relationship between hardback book sales and ebook sales (ditto); if e-readers keep getting more accessible, is the end of the paper book nigh? Questions like that.
In the hope of finally getting some answers, I hopped on to Skype with CrunchGear…(more)
- Today TEDGlobal 2010 in pictures
- A video recap of TEDGlobal 2010 in pictures and words — set to the tune of Ze Frank’s crowd-sourced song “Chillout.” And watch for TEDTalks from TEDGlobal 2010, posting all year long on TED.com. Download the video “TEDGlobal 2010 in pictures” >>…(more)
- Today A new X Challenge to clean up oil spills
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Being announced right now in Washington, DC: A brand-new X Challenge to combat oil spills. The Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge is a $1.4 million prize to promote development of new technologies and techniques to capture spilled oil. As Peter Diamandis said at the announcement: “We are not rewarding someone for existing technology. We want to help create new technologies.”
The X Challenge is a one-year competition that begins on August 1, 2010, and culminates in summer 2011, …(more)
- Today A monkey economy as irrational as ours: Laurie Santos on TED.com
- Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in “monkeynomics” shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2010, July 2010 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 19:46) Watch Laurie Santos’ talk on TED.com, where [...]…(more)
- 3 days TEDxAmsterdam’s ‘Ideas Worth Doing’ Video Competition
- (Cross-posted from the TEDx Blog) TEDxAmsterdam has thought up a creative way to curate their audience — pose a global challenge to transform an ‘idea worth spreading’ to an ‘idea worth doing.’
Entrants are encouraged to realize an idea before October 19 — and document their progress through photos, video, testimonials or press. 100 winners will receive tickets to TEDxAmsterdam on November 30, 2010. Enter your idea here.
TEDxAmsterdam organizers have alread…(more)
- The oil spill’s toxic trade-off: Susan Shaw on TED.com
- Break down the oil slick, keep it off the shores: that’s grounds for pumping toxic dispersant into the Gulf, say clean-up overseers. Susan Shaw shows evidence it’s sparing some beaches only at devastating cost to the health of the deep sea. (Recorded at TEDxOilSpill, June 2010 in Washington, DC. Duration: 16:43) Watch Susan Shaw’s talk [...]…(more)
- Premiering tonight: Tony Robbins’ TV series on NBC
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Tonight (Tuesday, July 27) on NBC TV stations, Tony Robbins debuts his first-ever TV series, Breakthrough with Tony Robbins. In the six-episode series, Robbins works with six people facing an extreme life challenge, inspiring them to become more resilient and find the inner resources to build better lives and relationships. Find more information on the Breakthrough mini-site, or watch the trailer above for a sample — or watch Tony Robbins’ TEDTalk to get a sense of his energetic, e…(more)
- Updated: Surprise speaker at TEDGlobal: Julian Assange in Session 12
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At the start of Session 12 of TEDGlobal 2010, Chris Anderson announced a mystery guest. “There’s a site some of you may know, called WikiLeaks.” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange steps onstage for a surprise appearance at TEDGlobal 2010, in a Q&A with Chris.
We learned how WikiLeaks works: “We’re using state-of-the-art encryption and anonymizers to get information. And we get submissions by mail, regular postal mail. If we happen to find out the identity of a…(more)
- On the art of choosing: Sheena Iyengar on TED.com
- Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices — and how we feel about the choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about both trivial choices (Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our decisions. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2010, July 2010 in Oxford, UK. Duration: [...]…(more)
- JavaScript Minification Part II
- Variable naming can be a source of coding angst for humans trying to understand code. Once you’re sure that a human doesn’t need to interpret your JavaScript code, variables simply become generic placeholders for values. Nicholas C. Zakas shows us how to further minify JavaScript by replacing local variable names with the YUI Compressor.…(more)
- SVG with a little help from Raphaël
- Want to make fancy, interactive, scalable vector graphics (SVGs) that look beautiful at any resolution and degrade with grace? Brian Suda urges you to consider Raphaël for your SVG heavy lifting.…(more)
- Prefix or Posthack
- Vendor prefixes: Threat or menace? As browser support (including in IE9) encourages more of us to dive into CSS3, vendor prefixes such as -moz-border-radius and -webkit-animation may challenge our consciences, along with our patience. But while nobody particularly enjoys writing the same thing four or five times in a row, prefixes may actually accelerate the advancement and refinement of CSS. King of CSS Eric Meyer explains why.…(more)
- Supersize that Background, Please!
- Background images that fill the screen thrill marketers but waste bandwidth in devices with small viewports, and suffer from cropping and alignment problems in high-res and widescreen monitors. Instead of using a single fixed background size, a better solution would be to scale the image to make it fit different window sizes. And with CSS3 backgrounds and CSS3 media queries, we can do just that. Bobby van der Sluis shows how.…(more)
- Stop Forking with CSS3
- You may remember when JavaScript was a dark art. It earned that reputation because, in order to do anything with even the teensiest bit of cross-browser consistency, you had to fork your code for various versions of Netscape and IE. Today, thanks to web standards advocacy and diligent JavaScript library authors, our code is relatively fork-free. Alas, in our rush to use some of the features available in CSS3, we’ve fallen off the wagon. Enter Aaron Gustafson’s eCSStender, a JavaScript li…(more)
- Taking Advantage of HTML5 and CSS3 with Modernizr
- Years ago, CSS browser support was patchy and buggy, and only daring web designers used CSS for layouts. Today, CSS layouts are commonplace and every browser supports them. But the same can't be said for CSS3 and HTML5. That's where Faruk Ateş’s Modernizr comes in. This open-source JavaScript library makes it easy to support different levels of experiences, based on the capabilities of each visitor’s browser. Learn how to take advantage of everything in HTML5 and CSS3 that is implem…(more)
- Web Fonts at the Crossing
- Everything you wanted to know about web fonts but were afraid to ask. Richard Fink summarizes the latest news in web fonts, examining formats, rules, licenses, and tools. He creates a checklist for evaluating font hosting and obfuscation services like Typekit; looks at what’s coming down the road (from problems of advanced typography being pursued by the CSS3 Fonts Module group, to the implications of Google-hosted fonts); and wraps it all up with a how-to on making web fonts work today.…(more)
- Quick and Dirty Remote User Testing
- User research doesn’t have to be expensive and time-consuming. With online applications, you can test your designs, wireframes, and prototypes over the phone and your computer with ease and aplomb. Nate Bolt shows the way.…(more)
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