Excitement Build Up
~ July 24th, 2008Hey there. After a few weeks of radio silence I am back to tell you about some developments that have us very excited.
First, we moved to new offices in mid-town Toronto. The location is great. Our new office is comfortable and roomy with nice amenities. This is a welcome change from our Spadina and Queen location consisting of a single open room without air conditioning. We are guided by Agile principles, so we feel that co-locating our core team together is very beneficial. The photo below shows you how we set up our environment (and yes, if you are wondering, Austin is the real Matrix architect and he did not just use that as a cool background – and yes, we pay him in granola bars).
Another reason why we’re excited is that we’re deep into rebuilding the application for our private beta launch. We have completely redesigned our architecture for enterprise class stability, social capabilities and security. Come back soon for more info on this subject..
More importantly, we’re making dramatic improvements to our UI and functionality. We’ve had tons of feedback and we’ve made some fundamental improvements. We expect our private beta to address most of the requests we’ve heard from our loyal (and growing) user base.
Thank you very much for being vocal and honest with us. We are humbled by your numerous encouraging responses and promise to continue to work just as hard to deliver even better services we can all enjoy.
Not everything goes as smoothly and positively as we planned, however. This is one lesson we all learned early on. For example, James spent the better part of the week juggling phone calls between Bell and Purolator. We wanted to get Bell’s fibre optic OptiMax connection but it’s trickier than just calling them up and setting an appointment with their technicians. Apparently, paying $200 extra for a rush delivery by Purolator postpones the delivery by several days. What’s even more logic defying is that you cannot pick up the modem yourself and you have to wait for the courier to deliver it. Hopefully, next week we’ll have our super duper connection and get James back to what he does the best – brainstorming while pacing the office with his namesake mug in hand.
That’s it for this update. Thanks for your attention. Please come back often to share in our experience of building the most innovative and useful tools for personal development out there…
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