Archive for the ‘37signals’ Category

Highrise

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Highrise

Easily the nicest feature in 37Signal’s new Highrise application is the email dropdox. You can forward emails from contacts to your Highrise dropbox and Highrise will scan the email and either create a new contact or attach the email to an existing contact.

It is an easy and quick way of populating your contacts list in Highrise.

Otherwise the app. is another good example from 37Signals of light, focused and useful app. development.

Saying that I won’t be using it as it is another contacts data-silo that doesn’t integrate with anything else I use (my phone, GMail, my calendar etc.) Hopefully someone starts using the Highrise API to create some connectors.

37 Willy Wonkas

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

I respect the path 37signals has forged in the path few years but I have to say they are really riding the beta hype cycle hard with their upcoming HighRise app. At this point 37signals could launch the app. at the local Bedouin Starbucks and there would be a 5 mile queue outside three days before.

So when I read about the “golden tickets” idea I nearly gagged.

Come on guys, get real.

Job board aggregator

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

Solution Watch writes:

Job Boards are everywhere! Michael Arrington’s CrunchBoard, Om Malik’s GigaOM Jobs, Darren Rowse’s Problogger Job Board, and Jason Fried’s 37signals Job Board.

When the 37signals Job Board launched I thought it was a good idea. Then TechCrunch launched theirs and it was a reasonable idea as it would target a different market to the 37signals board. But add two more and these job boards start to look like a poor idea.

Ideally we need a job board aggregator. Most provide a detailed enough RSS feed to do this. Would there be any copyright issues in doing this? The Techcrunch Job Board feed in particular provides a ton of information (through the EdgeIO spec.) Anyone?

UPDATE: Turns out Michael Arrington has already been looking at a job board aggregator.