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PackRat 1.7.7 (Mac)

PackRat is a desktop client for 37signals Backpack web application. You can download your Backpack data and use it offline. View it, make changes, create new pages, etc. When you're online PackRat automatically sends your changes up to Backpack keeping everything in sync.

Tags: Desktop Client, Apple Macintosh, 37Signals, infiniteNIL Software, PackRat, Cloud Computing, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-02-18

Web 2.0 as the Jerry Maguire of software

Ex-Microsoft uberblogger and Podtech executive Robert Scoble is starting to really feel the weight of responsibility when running a Web startup. Investors have provided cash flow to speculate on the company's prospects and now it's up to him to find a way to make it all work. ...

Tags: software, Web, Web 2.0, 37Signals

Blog posts 2006-07-21

Best Web Companies and Innovators of 2005

I'm forever linking to my ZDNet blog from my Read/WriteWeb blog, so I'm sure it's OK to link to R/WW every once in a while. Best Web Companies and Innovators of 2005 is a follow-up to piece I wrote in 2004. Below is the list of 'winners', with the...

Tags: Web, Yahoo! Inc., 37Signals

Blog posts 2005-12-22

Additional Resources

The taboo of failure

Google plans for failureI read sometime back about google's strategy to handle hardware failure. Instead of focussing on building expensive unbreakable hardware, they assume it a given and build it into the software to handle hardware failures. So the concept is gaining ground.http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/07/13/built-to-fail-how-companies-like-google-ideo-and-37signals-build-failure-tolerant-systems-for-anything/Great managers understand it.I once worked for a...

Tags: Strategy, great manager, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

Outpost 1.0 (Mobile)

Outpost allows people to manage their projects with Basecamp (http://www.basecamphq.com), an online project management app from 37signals. Basecamp is widely acclaimed for its simplicity and effectiveness in organizing teams. Outpost brings the power of Basecamp to your iPhone or iPod Touch, with comprehensive support for messages, milestones, to-dos, and comments....

Tags: Mobile, Outpost, Apple iTunes, Morfunk, Basecamp, Digital Music, Project Management, Digital Media, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Personal Technology, It Operations, It service Management, Consumer Electronics, Management

Software downloads 2009-01-02

Backboard 1.0.0 (Mac)

37signals' Backpack is perfect for collecting notes and tasks. But I missed a dashboard-like overview over my tasks, reminders and calendar events and the possibility to edit and search them a bit more Mac-like. In addition, Backboard adds features like adding a date or a priority to a task and...

Tags: Task, Apple Macintosh, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-10-20

"Getting Real" With RDF and SPARQL

The "Getting Real" approach by Web 2.0 poster child 37signals reverses the usual development process from model to code to user interface by going "From brainstorm to user interface sketches to HTML to coding." Principles such as, "Don't write a functional specification," or "Essentials only" can help developers stay focused...

Tags: User Interface, Jupitermedia Corp., RDF, XML, Web 2.0, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development

White papers 2008-09-23

The WOA story emerges as better outcomes sought for SOA

The WOA story emerges as better outcomes sought for SOAWOA vs. SOA Epitomizes the Enterprise - Web 2.0 DivideI'm not sure it is a contest, so much as choosing the right approach for your architecture.SOA emerged from enterprise IT thinking, where networks are built systematically, not organically. So, if...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Software as a Service (SaaS), Web 2.0, Web services, Channel management, cloud computing, Enterprise software, WOA, SOA, WOA story, Web

Discussion threads 2008-09-06

Day 2: iPhone Dev Camp 2

Yesterday I learned a few lessons about live blogging. Not many people are refreshing it as much as I was. I should list my posts with most recent at the top instead of the other way around. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, App, Melodies, Medialets, Games, Personal Technology, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-03

An effective way to treat Web 2.0 vulnerabilities

I'm personally a huge fan of the Matasano blog, and have a lot of respect for their group.  I took a peek over at their blog today and noticed an article by Dave Goldsmith that deals with "Vulnerability Reporting in a Web 2.0 World Continued". In this...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Vulnerability, Defect, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-28

News to know: Windows Server 2008 launch; Hotmail outage; Berners-Lee on semantic Web; Apple

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft courts open-source vendors to support Win Server 2008. Jason Perlow: Server 2008: The Windows Workstation we always wanted Outage hits Windows Live Hotmail, Messenger users Microsoft: Windows Live outage affected those not signed with...

Tags: Google Inc., MSN Hotmail, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Server, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Photograph, Outage, Apple MacBook Pro, Microsoft Windows, Semantic Web, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Internet

Blog posts 2008-02-27

Who's buying into Web 2.0 technologies?

Who's buying into Web 2.0 technologies?DuhhSo here is the key sentence that shows what's wrong here:"The report indicated that application integration and management and SOA and master data management are top priorities for IT investments."Do small and medium sized companies even run these tools through IT or consider them IT...

Tags: SMB/SME, Wiki, Strategy, Forrester Research Inc., Web 2.0, small and medium enterprise, Forrester Report, Web, information technology, IT investment

Discussion threads 2008-02-08

Interactive design: the next step for the CSS guru?

Interactive design: the next step for the CSS guru?Dedicated RIA job websiteIf the RIA community had a common, popular job website for full-time and freelance postings like authenticjobs.com or jobs.37signals.com it would encourage many more designers to make the leap. Most of the postings that I've seen on Simply Hired...

Tags: rich Internet application, CSS guru, Interactive, CSS

Discussion threads 2007-10-09

Thoughts on the online/offiine apps controversy

So David from 37Signals dropped the f-bomb in a particularly myopic post wherein he tries to argue that we dont need offline functionality from online applications because, "like dude... were all connected ll of the time and why dont you read a book or something when youre on a plane?"....

Tags: Web Apps, Productivity, Mobility

Blog posts 2007-04-08

Davids versus Goliath: a comparison of wikis versus Blackboard CMS

[Guest Blogger Stewart Mader, Atlassian - makers of Confluence and Jira]In almost a decade in higher ed on both sides of the classroom (and in the middle, as a consultant helping other teachers integrate technology into their courses), Ive seen an interesting shift in whats available for teachers, and...

Tags: Education, CMS, Windows, Wiki, Mac, Web as Platform, Web Office, Business, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-03-09

SaaS in 2007: It's about services, doh!

In my trio of predictions for SaaS in 2007, Ive saved the biggest trend till last. The coming year will see a growing acknowledgement that SaaS is just part of a wider move towards Internet-based automated services. This is such an all-embracing trend that it will drive several other sub-trends,...

Tags: basics, Ecosystems, Business applications, Saas

Blog posts 2007-01-02

Satchel for Palm OS (Mobile)

The popular and critically-acclaimed productivity service Backpack is now available on your handheld! Satchel for Palm OS provides you with all the functionality of Backpack, even when you're away from your computer! Important: Due to latest Backpack upgrade, new Satchel users must enter in your Backpack API key to login...

Tags: Mobile, Operating System, Palm Inc., Palm OS, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-12-28

What to look for in a SaaS vendor

What to look for in a SaaS vendorSome clarity at lastSo SaaS is a new method of application provision, not some new kind of application. Therefore there is no real radical break from existing packaged software.Of course exactly the same software does meet everyone's needs then it makes sense to...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), software-as-a-service, SaaS company, software

Discussion threads 2006-08-16

Zoho adds real-time collaborative editing

Zoho Writer, an online word processor, now features real time collaborative editing. This means multiple users can work on a Zoho Writer document at the same time. While this may sound like a feature that web-based word processing products should have by default, in reality most of them don't. According...

Tags: Zoho Writer

Blog posts 2006-07-11

Web 2.0 reality check: Incompatibility

Web 2.0 reality check: IncompatibilityA webOS standardIt's the natural approach, that you create a framework for web2 apps which becomes a standard.In reality a web OS, which neatly reconnects to your earlier posts, and since we speak of dataformats here, probably xml based.Microsoft has suggested some possible approaches to cut'n...

Tags: RSS, Channel management, Web browsers, incompatibility, Web, reality check, Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0

Discussion threads 2006-05-03