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How Trello is different: Joel Spolsky makes a lot of great points in this article about Trello, but this one really stuck with me: Over the next two weeks we visited dozens of Excel customers, and did not see anyone using Excel to actually perform what you would call “calculations.” Almost all of them were [...]

Simplicity Is Highly Overrated: This has been making the rounds for a while, but I just got around to reading it.  Don Norman – principle of The Nielsen-Norman Group and author of Emotional Design and The Design of Everyday Things – pulls back the curtain on feature bloat.  His point is best summed up in [...]

Phasing out support for IE 6 across all 37signals products on August 15, 2008: This is so necessary. Someone had to step up and kick the snowball off the hill. On August 15th, 2008 we will begin phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 across all 37signals products. In order to continue using the products [...]

IMified: Familiar Productivity with Instant Messaging: This is pretty cool, and it’s related to a post I have in my head about how a return to the green screen command line interface may help some Web apps. There’s a lot to be said for proficient use of the command line. […] IMified, a new service [...]

Simplicity: This is a good essay that’s a huge counterpoint to the “embrace limitations” philosophy that 37 Signals started pushing a few years ago when Basecamp came out. I think what Joel is saying is that you need features, but they need to appear simple to the end users. And I think this is what [...]

Support Ticket Add-on for Basecamp: This is the first app I’ve seen come out of the Basecamp API. Project Detail Systems is proud to announce the launch of BCTix.com, a Support Ticket Add-on for Basecamp. We believe that this may be the first product built exclusively for the Basecamp API. Subscribing to the Getting Real [...]

Basecamp API: The Basecamp API has landed. The API allows programmers to access/read/write Basecamp data from third-party systems like OS X dashboard widgets, Yahoo/Confabulator widgets, web sites, back-office systems, billing systems, and more. The API allows Basecamp to integrate with a variety of other products and systems. Prepare for some gorgeous, gorgeous stuff to come [...]

If you use Basecamp, there’s an upgrade coming on Saturday that includes this little tidbit, that’s actually wicked huge. I’m surprised it took this long. […] the long awaited Basecamp API. I anxiously await the XUL interface.

In the comments on Deane’s latest bit of Spolsky-worship, I had postulated that, given the idea that thick clients for the web can provide a better experience, and Firefox’s increasing market share, 2006 could become the year of XUL. There was a great link posted on digg this morning that illustrates this. Firefox users, check [...]

Sunrise: 37signals’ CRM tool for small business is coming soon: A couple of weeks ago, 37 Signals announced their new CRM tool. Sunrise is a CRM-ish tool for small businesses. We’re aiming to change the small business CRM market with Sunrise in the same way we changed the small business project management and collaboration market [...]