Yearly Archives: 2007

Support for non US Locales goes live tomorrow

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Additional Date/Time and Currency Support Going Live Wednesday, April 25th at approximately 6:00 AM Pacific Tomorrow morning we will be launching support for Locales outside of the United States. This has been a high demand feature and we are excited to get it launched. What can be expected during the launch? Our launch window is […]

The non English Internet continues to grow

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Myspace just launched a Spanish version of its popular social networking service. At Pelago, we have seen a strong push in the last year to localize web sites and applications for our clients. We have learned a lot about character encoding …especially in regards to handling email. In the next week or so Intervals will […]

Web 2.0 Expo

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Strolled through the exhibition floor of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Franciso this week. The general buzz was a lot different than what I am used to seeing through our mostly online experience. The business world is grappling with what to make of this trend, as was evidenced by some slick and impressive branding […]

When to add features with Hosted Software

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Hosted software has so many benefits that this post is not intended to defend Software as a Service, but rather discuss our process for adding features. One of the amazing yet very tricky things about hosted software is growing and evolving the software without making it bloatware or getting pulled into overly customizing it. Once […]

Internationalization & Email

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Pelago is gearing up to launch International support in our Intervals application. The biggest hurdle, by far, has been encoding emails in a format that supports international character sets. Intervals encodes all of its data in the UTF-8 format because of its language support. However, its an 8bit format that isn’t fully supported by mail […]

Honest self examination

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Treehugger.com has a useful section on How to Green Your Work. What’s the Big Deal? A greener workplace can mean a lighter ecological footprint, a healthier and more productive place to work, and good news for the bottom line. Whether you’re the boss or the employee, whether your office is green already or still waiting […]

Patagonia and Google go Solar

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Patagonia: Patagonia decided to take the plunge and added 360 panels to its parking lot. It’s expected to produce about 12% of their needs at the Great Pacific Ironworks building. 12% isn’t much, but when you consider Patagonia already buys 50% of its power from wind energy… it is a remarkable difference. Good job guys. […]

Document Storage is officially live

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Intervals now features full document support, including upload, transfer and version tracking capabilities. The new functionality enables users to work with virtually any file type, retain full version histories, link documents to specific projects and tasks, search for files within projects or universally, and share files with other team members regardless of geographical location or […]