Highlights from this week’s 37signals staff posts at Twitter.
: From 23andMe: All humans can trace their paternal ancestry back to a single man who lived in Africa perhaps 125,000 years ago.
: Clean desk
: Got invite to . Really impressed so far. $10/mo seems like a no-brainer for any music you want on any device.
: Started re-reading ‘Cognitive Grammar: An Introduction’ yesterday. Ronald Langacker is one of my heroes.
: I was interviewed by @ at RailsConf about Rails 3, influences, and businesses:
: “We’re hiring” plastered across your service van says “high turnover” to me.
uptonic: “I am a sans serif Superman and my only kryptonite is pretentious buzzkills like you.” /via
: AOL set to sell Bebo for $10M after buying it for $850M just 2 yrs ago. Hot on the heels of selling ICQ for less than half of purchase.
: Commoditizing design? Design is a commodity. Great design isn’t, but design is. Like tomatoes vs. heirloom tomatoes.
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Highlights from this week’s 37signals staff posts at Twitter.
: Just started working on a new product today. We will see where it goes.
: Cool service from Kayak: Where can I fly and for how much? /via
: On a high from his RailsConf talk. Talk about crushing it! Addictive personality.
: Things I Can’t Believe I Think To Myself: I wish Pages had Microsoft Word Art.
: Neat stuff from Texas based illustrator and artist Toby Thane Neighbors:
: A company is Getting Real:
: Career strategy:
1. Become the best at 1 specific thing
2. Become top 25% at two or more things
: My latest column for is on newsstands (June issue) and online. Hiring is the topic:
: Beautiful pure HTML5 no-images app for seeing time zones by Thomas Fuchs: (works great on iPad).
: Finding clients with Sortfolio? Finding a web design firm with Sortfolio? Let us know so we can add you to:
Highlights from this week’s 37signals staff posts at Twitter.
: on : “Our investment in design is really going to come through.” Love these interviews by .
: beautifully done recipe site: . Check the “Recipes” link, too: . Inspiring!
: Know the grid. Love the grid. Just don’t be constrained by the grid.
: Flyers jersey as a floor mat at Club Lago in Chicago.
: The sysadmin is often measured by a lack of failures rather than a series of achievements.
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Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:
Highrise
Bridge for Highrise is a “Must-Have BlackBerry App for Small Business”
“The Bridge BlackBerry app for Highrise by 37signals transfers your detailed business contacts, tasks, and e-mail info from desktop to mobile, and vice versa, ensuring you’re never too far from what you need. The app is easy to install for existing Highrise subscribers, and offers full create, edit, and delete capabilities for all standard data.”
Get all new contacts created in Dispatch automatically added to your Highrise account
Dispatch is an app (still in private beta) that learns what kinds of email messages you want it to handle automatically and responds to them for you. And it now integrates with Highrise.
Using tags in Highrise to remember where you met someone and when to keep in touch
“The other type of tags I use represent my relationship to someone. Tags @Lead-3, @Lead-2, and @Lead-1 indicate people I should keep in touch with in the future, talk to soon (they’ve said they’re interested in working together), or am in active discussion with about a specific project proposal, respectively. The @ prefix is a bit of a hack, just to make all those tags sort alphabetically together at the beginning of the tag list, since they’re the ones I will review most often.”
ColoAdvisor likes Highrise because it’s “fast, easy to use and allows forward movement with imperfect data”
“So why am I pitching Highrise in our blog today? I guess the main point is that the tool needs to be fast, easy to use and allows forward movement with imperfect data. Is it really worth looking up a billing address to put into an opportunity if the deal is still a year out? We don’t have to screw around with things like that – we have lots of clients depending on us to get work done on their behalf and like to keep moving.”
How Eric Miller uses Highrise to organize his design business and the graphic design section on about.com
“I treat Highrise as both a CRM and a project management system. As soon as I get a lead on a new project, I add the contact to the system and create a deal and a task, even if I don’t have many details yet. This way I know I’ll remember to follow-up with the person. If I seal the deal, I create a Highrise case to store all notes, tasks, and related contacts in one place. I use my own custom categories to keep track of tasks such as design, web development, domain name renewal dates, website launches, proposal deadlines, writing assignments, meetings and phone calls.”
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Highlights from this week’s 37signals staff posts at Twitter.
: There’s a two-week-or-less version of just about everything.
: Love the photog of Olivo Barbieri. Shots of his site specific_NEW YORK CITY 07 here:
: gah, another email announcing a “webinar”. That word just gives me the creeps.
: “Without great solitude no serious work is possible.” — Pablo Picasso
: NPR guests are so frequently “struck by” things that they should start wearing helmets and armor inside the studio.
: Register early for BIF-6. The BIF conference series is one of the best I’ve ever attended:
: Check out Episode #29 of Core Intuition with and – more talk about handling support email.
: With every call being recorded for quality assurance purposes you’d think call center quality would be improving.
: There’s something uniquely calming about shredding stuff. Paper be gone!
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View all of the jobs and internships at the 37signals Job Board.
Design Jobs
Garmin International is looking for a Web UX Designer/Developer in Olathe, KS (Kansas City Metro Area).
Harvest is looking for a UX Designer with ZERO experience in New York, NY.
Ancestry.com is looking for a Senior Interaction Designer in San Francisco, CA or Provo, UT.
MMB is looking for a Senior Digital Developer in Boston, MA.
View all Design Job listings.
Programming Jobs
Yelp, Inc. is looking for a Web Developer in San Francisco, CA.
American Express Publishing is looking for a Ruby On Rails Developer in New York, NY.
Designkitchen is looking for an iPad Developer in Chicago, IL.
Fox News Channel is looking for a PHP Web Developer in New York, NY.
View all Programmer Job listings.
Sortfolio Web Designers
Projekt, Inc. is headquartered in Philadelphia and has a typical project budget of $10,000-$25,000.
Larsen is headquartered in Minneapolis and has a typical project budget of over $50,000.
codegent is headquartered in London and has a typical project budget of $25,000-$50,000.
Upstatement is headquartered in Boston and has a typical project budget of $25,000-$50,000.
View all Sortfolio listings.
Highlights from this week’s 37signals staff posts at Twitter.
Divvy is a fresh and very simple approach to OS X window management
I’m not upgrading Adobe Creative Suite until this is fixed. Seriously, Adobe? It’s been years.
Maybe that’s why Microsoft’s new business model is lawsuits. Their overpriced, shitty tech is failing to attract anyone under 30.
Really digging the clean new look of
Loving the progress of HTML5. See what browsers are already ready for what:
Fela Kuti would fine drummer for mistakes. Acc to one: “The more I played, the less money I would get paid.”
Panera is experimenting with a new pricing model: Pay what you want.
Transcript of my interview w/ on the design & challenges of the 37signals ID project:
Lloyd posts Year Two in Review at Lone Gunman. Good stuff on psychology, marketing, general geekery, etc.
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” -Coco Chanel
Highlights from this week’s 37signals staff posts at Twitter.
: Photo: The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
: The money-to-code ratio at Diaspora is out of whack. Having a pile of money so you can “focus” on a project means nothing.
: Need to edit an MP3 track? You can trim tracks in iTunes itself. Get info > Options tab > use Start and Stop times.
: I wish iTunes could exclude artists that only appear on compilations from artist view.
: Highly recommending “Revising Prose”. The best book on writing & editing I’ve ever read:
: Its obvious when developers don’t use the software they create
: We need better domain language for third-party authorization. Consumer/client/app/agent are wishy-washy and generic.
: Christian Heilmann interviews in London about REWORK:
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