Real-time collaboration moving too fast? Try Basecamp’s Daily Digest
37signals, a startup that offers online tools for business and collaboration, just announced “a really powerful feature” (the company’s words for “its project management service Basecamp — daily email updates”).
Yes, email. That seems awfully retro, doesn’t it? Especially for a service that offers plenty of tools that do things like assign tasks, share files and more in real-time. But of course that richness and speed can be a problem in-and-of-itself. With so much potentially going… Continue Reading
37 Signals goes down, so does my to-do list; light posting today at VentureBeat
37signals‘ site is down, meaning its users — mainly small organizations — are unable to access its popular set of web-based services, including project manager Basecamp, group chat Campfire and contact manager Highrise. For example, I have my list of people to contact and stories to write today within Highrise.
[Update: All 37signals services are back online, after being down for a couple of hours this morning.]
VentureBeat’s entire team was considering switching to Highrise, but this… Continue Reading
FiveRuns raises $6.2M as Rails development spreads
Ruby on Rails, a programming language useful for making web applications, has gained a strong following in the development community because it is much easier to code and maintain than competitors like Java and PHP.
Initially adopted by small and independent developers, Rails is now getting some attention from corporations. Popular sites like 37signals, which is also the company that developed Rails, have used Rails for their Web 2.0 projects since its release three years ago.
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Roundup: 37Signals, MetroFi, CaliSolar & Duffield’s taxes…and more
37signals, the jazzy Web 2.0 company, takes funding from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — See the company’s announcement here about why. We last mentioned the company here. The company boasts: Since we launched Basecamp we’ve been contacted by nearly 30 different VC firms. We’ve never been interested in the typical traditional VC deal. With a few exceptions, all the VCs could offer us was cash and connections. We’re fine on both of those fronts. We don’t… Continue Reading