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I’ve been randomly Twittering from our 37signals Twitter account for a few months now, but it’s time for me to go out on my own.
You can follow my personal thoughts on design, innovation, business, and other general daily observations at my jasonfried Twitter account.
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If you’re at Web 2.0 tomorrow (Wednesday, September 16) I hope you’ll come to our sessions:
10:05am in room 1A23 & 24: “10 Things We’ve Learned at 37signals” (Jason Fried)
11:10am in room 1A08 & 10: “Go REST with Rails” (David Heinemeier Hansson)
3:20pm in the Special Events Hall: Keynote (Jason Fried)
We hope to see you there!
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Earlier this week we launched a big Basecamp update that allows people to attach files and leave comments on to-dos and milestones.
Since we launched the new feature 72-hours ago:
(You may notice that the numbers don’t add up — that’s because new comments were added between the database queries)
We’re really happy that about 10.5% of the comments posted in the past 72 hours were comments posted on to-dos and milestones. That’s great uptake on a new feature in just 3 days. We’re thrilled that people are loving the new feature! Thanks for your continued support.
Very clever new input concept from one of the guys who brought you T9. I was just simulating this on my keyboard and it’s surprisingly easy to do. Of course I don’t have anything to measure my accuracy, but I think the concept is fascinating.
Full story at CNET.
Please join us this Thursday, September 11 at 11am central for the next edition of 37signals Live.
This show’s topic will be “The Starting Line: From Idea to Execution”. How do you start your business? How do you take that idea you had and actually do something with it? How do you get from thought to action? How do you deal with business plans and projections and all that stuff you’re supposed to do when you get started. Do you hire people? Do you design business cards? All that good stuff.
We look forward to seeing you for 37signals Live this Thursday!
So, we’re working on this new Highrise feature that requires currency icons. We’ve been making icons for some popular currencies:
During our currency research we stumbled upon the universal currency sign which is used to denote a currency when the symbol for a particular currency is unavailable. The currency symbol was invented in 1972. I want to invent a symbol!
Armed with this knowledge, we made an icon to represent the other currencies that may not have custom icons:
The currency sign was news to us so we thought it might be news to you. If you already knew, lucky you. If you didn’t, maybe this can fill your “learn something new everyday” quota.
Today we’re thrilled to be able to announce a big new addition to Basecamp: You can now attach files and post comments on to-dos and milestones. Previously this functionality was only available on messages.
Watch a bigger version of this video on the 37signals Product Blog.
A green comment icon after a to-do or milestone means there are new comments on that item. A dark grey comment icon means there are comments on that item, but you’ve already read them. And if an item doesn’t have any comments, you’ll see an empty comment icon when you hover over that item. Clicking the comment icon will take you to the comments view for that to-do or milestone.
This new feature comes with a great side effect: You can now deep link to individual to-do items or milestones. Previously you could only link to a to-do list or the milestones section, but now you can link directly to individual to-dos or specific milestones.
This new feature is directly in-line with Basecamp’s core premise: Project management is communication. Before you had to keep all your discussions in the messages section. That worked, but it required you to discuss one part of your project in another part of your project. Now you can have discussions about to-dos and milestones right on top of those to-dos and milestones.
We’re really excited about this new feature. We think it’s going to help you get a lot more more out of Basecamp. Thanks again for your continued support!
Some great writing by Jeffrey Zeldman. Brief moments artfully exposed though concise, colorful stories.
