Yearly Archives: 2008

Blogworthy #1

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Throughout our busy work week — in the time between tasks — one of us will unearth something funny on the web and email it around to give the rest of us a chuckle. Please allow me to introduce our first installment of blogworthy links… Bicycle crash captured on Google maps Americans are unloading a […]

Ubuntu for Kids

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A few months ago, Michael and I were brainstorming ideas on how we can aggregate our different interests into something that could benefit our community. Michael was interested in recycling our used computers. I was interested in helping out kids in our neighborhood. We both wanted to increase awareness about Ubuntu. We settled on the […]

Say Hello to Bozo

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Please meet Bozo, our new VP of Client Relations. We really like him, as Bozo is always there to listen to our frustrations. We can confide in him about late payments, conflicts, and difficult projects. And when things get heated, he takes a punch on the nose quite well. Gets right back up, not a […]

Beyond Basecamp, the Summit

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Basecamp has dominated the realm of online project management, or has it? Basecamp invented a methodology for getting things done, hijacked the phrase ‘project management’, and unleashed their simplified solution onto the web. This was a brilliant move because there was a large population of people with basic needs. And there still are. However, it […]

Reasons to Ride Your Bike to Work

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Modern technology has enabled us to work in many new ways. Telecommuting allows us to work from home and avoid the rush hour commute. Web-based collaborative services enable a distributed team to work on the same project, unhindered by geographical location. These new technologies are good and have improved our work lives. However, there are […]

Preparing for what’s Ahead

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There is so much buzz about a pending recession that we have to ask: what are we doing to prepare ourselves for it? Whether or not it happens, small business owners and entrepreneurs should be thinking ahead and coming up with a plan on how they will get through it. We believe that small businesses […]

Simple Things Can Make a Difference

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Last weekend’s Earth Day festivities were a huge success here in Santa Barbara. The turnout exceeded last year, with hundreds of people walking and cycling to our local sunken gardens for tips on greening the planet and freebies to help get started. I walked away with several canvas bags for grocery shopping and some biodegradable […]

Optimizing Task Management in Intervals

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Our customers have been asking us to optimize the task management functionality within Intervals by reducing the number of clicks required to update tasks. And we agree. Managing tasks constitutes the bulk of our daily workflow, ideally it would take less time. Customer feedback is important to us, and we want to be sure we […]