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I have been a supporter of OpenID for a long time. But I agree with the decision by 37signals to drop it. What could have been never happened and, as it would seem that not much is being done to fix that, it would be better to just get rid of it so as to…

Remember my link to Chalk? Sam Samhuri took the time to dissect exactly how it was built. Impressive. Both the app and the write up.

I’ve been using Chalk by 37signals on my iPad all day and I love it. Here is the announcement post by Jamie at 37signals.

Richard Banfield, on Medium, in a piece titled The Myth of the Design Studio Turned Product Company relates how he feels it got started by 37Signals: In the process of doing that they unknowingly started the mythology that every design or development studio should become a product company. I’ll just state, flat out, that not…

Chris Gonzales answers Shawn Blanc’s question about working remotely on Twitter in longform on his blog. I’m glad he did. The funny thing I’ve noticed is that it seems like each pro is also its own con. I worked at home, both remotely and for myself, for about 10 years of my career. Gonzales hits…

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, here is Jason Fried from this past July on Why we’re doing things that don’t scale on Signal vs. Noise: But automation can also lead to myopia. And premature-automation can lead to blindness. When you take human interaction out of a system, you’re removing key opportunities to see what…

DHH: If you’re not committed to your life’s work in a company and with people you could endure for decades, are you making progress on it? Yes. I am.

Sam Stephenson, creator of Prototype JavaScript framework and team member at 37Signals, explains why our self-worth should not stem from the longevity of our code. He also puts forth this worthy nugget: In order to advance the state of the art, we have to be willing not only to try new ideas, but to retreat…

Mig Reyes writes about the redesign of the 37signal’s blog: More often than not, company blogs are littered with pitches for their product. I don’t want to throw new job opportunities at you right away. I don’t want to ask you to subscribe to our RSS feed when you haven’t even read anything yet. These rules informed…

GitHub: Today we are partnering with Andreessen Horowitz and announcing our first ever outside investment. The amount? $100,000,000. Even in today’s money this is a fair amount of capital for GitHub to have on-hand. What will this be used for? GitHub mentions, in several of the quotes posted to various tech news outlets, that they…

Ryan Singer of 37signals [about The Economist for iPad](http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2995-the-economist-on-the-ipad-perfect): > "I don’t get to say this often: it’s a perfect execution." Though I have purchased books I have yet to purchase or subscribe to a magazine or newspaper on the iPad. Ryan’s praise for The Economist may change that.

Given my recent spat on Tumblr about their downtime and the messaging coming from their team and investors, I thought this quote by Jason Fried of 37Signals in INC. was apropos: "Of course, all companies experience episodes like this. How they handle the situation is what counts. I’m not talking about fixing the problem—you have…

Speaking of focusing. "You probably only have to interrupt someone a couple times a day before they’re unable to work on hard problems at all." Paul Graham from an essay in 2005 /via David Kaneda, & 37signals. [ad#Adsense: Horiz 468]

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’m back to Safari. I still love Chrome but Safari’s latest update made it edge out Chrome for speed. Speed, it seems, is the killer feature for me in Web browsers. Until this latest release the Top Sites page in Safari was too slow for me to find useful. Now, however, it…

Jason Fried recently wrote a tip for speakers that start off their presentations at conferences or any type of public speaking by saying "Sorry, I didn’t have time to prepare better" or something along those lines. His tip? Don’t say that. Jason is right. You shouldn’t say that. It makes people begin to wonder why…

37Signals, a software development company out of Chicago, Illinois, recently launched an affiliate program.  I thought this a perfect time for me to let you know about three of their flagship products.  Oh, and I’m not telling you about these just because of their affiliate program, I’ve mentioned 37Signals before. Basecamp – Project management made incredibly…

Late last year I was privileged enough to find the time to attend The Future of Web Design in New York City.  Some of my friends were presenting, the Carsonified team always puts together great events, and the event was relatively in my own backyard so the decision to attend was easy. After the conference…

Over 1 year in the making!  Well, not really, but it has been over a year since version 1.2 of the widget was released.  Now, with version 1.3, the Ta-da List widget is back in action and has been updated to accomodate the changes that 37Signals made to Ta-da List in a recent update. The…

Keegan Jones‘ (among others) Ta-da Lists Widget is down! The erring widget. I began reusing Ta-da Lists recently when I found out about the iPhone support.  It works beautifully.  When I think of something while I’m on the go, I can add a ta-da list item with my iPhone painlessly.  When I’m back at my…

In the world of photography there is a mantra that you’ll sometimes here about; embracing limitations.  It is where, even though you are only equipped with a camera that isn’t feature rich or technologically advanced, you embrace those limitations and still create interesting images.  You come to grips with the things that your camera can…

Looking for a job? Might I suggest looking through the various Job Boards that have popped up over recent years? You might just find what you’re looking for. 37signals’ Job Board The 37signals’ Job Board is probably "the best one" right now. Currently there are offerings from such companies as Apple, Sony, Amazon, Best Buy,…

If you run a web service, I want you to take a moment to learn from the recent response by 37signals regarding their 2hours of downtime they had the other day. Here is what I said about it on my linklog. "37signals responds to downtime, perfectly. They start with an explanation of what happened, then…