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At last!

Matt published this entry on Tuesday 15 January, 2008 at 9:07 pm. It's been filed in the General category. {}

The team (minus Wade, who is in Hawaii at the moment, lucky him!) downing some celebration champagne! Photo by GwenBell.com.

At last, Socialthing! was released to the world!
Ok, maybe not the world…maybe just about 90 people for the private beta. But it’s been great so far. Everyone’s been really active in helping us test […]

Downtime and Weirdness

Brian published this entry on Tuesday 15 January, 2008 at 6:56 pm. It's been filed in the General category. {}

Thanks again to everyone that is testing out socialthing! with us. We keep getting great feedback. Please keep it up.
Right now you might have noticed that the Lifestream is not responding, behaving weird and/or making the browser hiccup. We are aware of the issue and should have it resolved soon. Stay tuned for another update […]

st!cast 01 - Friends and Adding Services

Brian published this entry on Tuesday 15 January, 2008 at 12:35 am. It's been filed in the General category. {}

    
This is the first screencast showing some of Socialthing!’s features. In it I show you how to add services to your Socialthing! account, how to group a person’s many online identities into one identity (that person) and how to leave us feedback.Still to come is the Help section that will have links to our screencasts, […]

The Hype Machine and Admitting When You’re Wrong

Matt published this entry on Saturday 12 January, 2008 at 2:31 pm. It's been filed in the General category. {}

Everything gets hyped…we saw a lot of it in 2007. Anything from Apple (iPhone, new iPods, etc), Halo 3 and Rock Band, Ron Paul…the list goes on and on…The truth is, sometimes it’s warranted (iPhone has been coming for years now) and sometimes it gets out of hand.
It’s when the hype gets out of […]

2008: The year of awesome

Matt published this entry on Wednesday 02 January, 2008 at 3:25 pm. It's been filed in the General category. {}

Yup, we’re jumping on the bandwagon, we’re writing a “Welcome to 2008” post.
Simply put, 2008 is going to be a wicked awesome year, and I am ready for it. Last year was a big year, for me personally, the world, and most importantly, the whole socialthing! team.
In 2007:

Ben, Brian and I were finally all […]