12 Feb 2003 | JF said...

Who can beat Quarlo?

13 Feb 2003 | p8 said...

www.37exp.com sounds like a 37signals project.

13 Feb 2003 | Paperhead said...

. . . and 37 signals always reminds me of Owen Jones's 37 Axioms of Design

13 Feb 2003 | gianni said...

vote for my bud, "I Am Generic", for BEST PHOTO ESSAY ON A BLOG ...

13 Feb 2003 | Martin Conaghan said...

More unnecessary awards?

13 Feb 2003 | Paperhead said...

Great idea Martin . . . they should have an award for the most unecessary award . . . there could be categories and everyt . . .

13 Feb 2003 | JF said...

37signals on awards.

13 Feb 2003 | angmo said...

bah, its all just a popularity contest.

14 Feb 2003 | rannie said...

Actually a lot of people are using the finalist list as a great jumping off point to visit photoblogs they have never seen before.

Next week we'll be releasing the list of links that the judges had to work with. There are quite a few gems in there as well.

14 Feb 2003 | Paperhead said...

JF said...
37signals on awards.

if that really is your attitude, then may i ask why your keywords metatag contains this:

" . . . signals, philosophy, understand, award, simple, simplicity . . ."

14 Feb 2003 | JF said...

f that really is your attitude, then may i ask why your keywords metatag contains this: ...award...

Because people search for it and we're trying to capture those eyeballs.

14 Feb 2003 | Paperhead said...

. . . so you want people to think that you're above all of that awards stuff, but you want to get their attention by using it as a keyword? i may have misunderstood??

14 Feb 2003 | JF said...

. . . so you want people to think that you're above all of that awards stuff, but you want to get their attention by using it as a keyword? i may have misunderstood?

A lot of people search for design firms using "award winning," etc., because they consider awards equal to a quality, top-notch, well respected design firm. And, while we don't enter award shows, we believe that those folks would be interested in our services. If they really think it's important for their design firm to have won tons of awards, then they won't choose us. But, if they are looking for a solid, quality design firm that will deliver top notch work, and they use "award winning" to label those collective qualifications, then we hope they stumble across 37signals.

And, besides, adding "awards" to our metatags doesn't mean anything specific. Doesn't mean we enter or don't enter award shows. It doesn't mean we praise or despise awards. It's just a keyword in a long series of keywords that might help someone find a good design firm. We'd like to be on that list of search results whether we have an opinion on awards or not.

14 Feb 2003 | Paperhead said...

OK, just asking.

Can I ask another?

Is this site searchable?

14 Feb 2003 | JF said...

Is our site searchable? Signal vs. Noise? No, not right now. Maybe later.

14 Feb 2003 | Paperhead said...

Is 37signals searchable?

15 Feb 2003 | p8 said...

Why doesn't 37signals.com/svn/archives/ give an overview of all previous threads? There is some great content here.

Although I understand that you don't want all these threads to continue. Sometimes everything has been said or a thread loses it's actuality and should be closed. This is one of the reasons why I like SVN (besides the quality of posts, low level of trolls, not a lot of people repeating stuff, introductions which keep threads focused on topics, the ability to use html-tags, the absence of avatar images and ads, ....)

15 Feb 2003 | alisha said...

"so you want people to think that you're above all of that awards stuff..."
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who said "above"? youre putting words into thier mouths that absolutely arent there. are you insinuating that theyre arrogant or something?

18 Feb 2003 | Paperhead said...

alisha . . . far be it from me to call anyone arrogant.

personally i don't know how it would be possible to suggest that a bunch of people who go around criticizing the usability of other people's sites, but haven't yet managed to work out how to have the text show up all the time on their own pages, are arrogant.

maybe i'm missing some wonderful piece of contingency design, but usually when i post something here half the text goes AWOL and doesn't show again until i scroll the page up and down. Sometimes it just disappears without me posting. if i was a less experienced punter I'd probably just leave thinking the site didn't work properly.

37better37signals anyone?

18 Feb 2003 | JF said...

37better37signals

How about you, Paperhead?

Re: the dissapearing text bug thing... We're looking into it. When we find problems we fix them as soon as we can. That's the best anyone can do.

18 Feb 2003 | Paperhead said...

Re: the dissapearing text bug thing... We're looking into it. When we find problems we fix them as soon as we can. That's the best anyone can do.

fair enough - feels like it's been ages now though. as soon as the double post on refresh thing went away, this came . . .

. . . what new hell awaits us next Jason ?? :)

ps if it helps i had a similar problem and though i have no proof whatsoever, i think it's somehow related to having the same image called again and again (in your case the speech balloon). Of course it might be something very different in your case, but I found that preloading the image (speech balloon) cleared the problem up. Still don't know why though.