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Who can say anything to this big guy, he can do what he wants and can spend money on his ventures as a pocket change.http://gawker.com/363639/steven-spielberg-is-working-on-a-social-network-for-crackpots
Spielberg’s attempt to turn aliens/spooky ghosts into social animals.
http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9885250-36.html
(Credit: Hanna-Barbera and News.com)
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Angel community was watching when Facebook platform launched and they were expecting plenty of applications to launch under Facebook umbrella rapidly and eventually some one will cash in the success in terms of user base.
I guess exactly same thing happened to Where I have been. Here is the news ( TripAdvisor buys Facebook app for $3 million). This again proves few simple things about consumer space
Now the race is on and applications will be more aggressive to pan out, attract more and more people. Facebook proved its platform strength after all.
Even though we have been in quite a few silicon valley ruby meetups with low key Ajuby push by dropping one page Ajuby brochure on the front door, We had our first formal Ajuby meetup today. It went well . Not everyone showed up who RSVP’d for the meetup, there were handfull.
We started with little introduction of Ajuby on how it started, why kind of slides. Then we dived right into high level features of our last release 0.5 ( which I blogged in a seperate post last time). As we were passing thru slides, audience were curious and questions about vision, business model and eventually couple of guys were interested in looking at actual code. I eventually opened Textmate and started walking everyone thru the Ajuby code base. I guess people were curious to know how different Ajuby is from conventional Rails application. Answer was simple, Ajuby is an Rails application with additional directories custom to Ajuby.
Whole take from this exercise was wonderful, curious eyes with valid questions, Discussions will possibly take feedback to feature path, we are helping ourselves and others.
We have a long way to go in this process, lot to learn, lot to provide to the community because we have got from community so much all these years.
Here are the meetup presentation slides
We are glad to announce Ajuby release 0.5 today. It is very exciting get this release out after long and late hours of work, with tons of fixes and UI consistency across browsers (IE/Firefox/Safari).
This is a milestone release for Ajuby team in terms making integration platform availability (for building Web services/SOAP/XML exchange) , sample applications demonstrating possibility of mashups (SugarCRM and Basecamp conglomerate).
Here is the release information in detail
You can also check out the Ajuby blog for up to date information
To get your hands on this release
It just keeps getting better as wide adoption Rails based application increases, Ajuby slides itself in a right spot to make developers and user community to build integrations to popular business applications like Salesforce, SugarCRM , productivity tools like basecamp and storage solution like Amazon S3 rapidly.
We went to city yesterday to spend a evening, eat some good food and there we bumped into Macy’s building. What we see is this
Like every year Macy’s celebrates one country in their annual event, this year they were featuring India in their “Macy’s 61st Annual Union Square Flower Show“. This affiche covered the whole building with amazing art work and vibrant colors representing Indian culture.
The interesting part of this whole event was not inside, it was outside. They had a huge Ganesha idol right up in the main entrance and it was fabulous how it was adding excitement to this whole show. This simply reminded us Ganesh Chaturthi whole India celebrates every year August-September.
As we walked inside Macy’s most of things was designed around this theme and some part was designed like Indian bazaar where they were selling more contemporary/ethnic things , with Indian dub music running in the background.
Guess we were lucky to be there and see this marvelous piece of work and gala observance because it was last day of the show.
As 37Signals is pushing for Highrise , its so called “CRM” initiative, I’m sure everyone must be thinking about, is it really a true CRM or just another personal data/contact/task management application combined with few CRM features. As per their blog
Highrise was built to satisfy common scenarios like:
So they have proposed features like Leads, conversations, contacts which will fall into mini-CRM domain.
It also sounds like they are taking best of basecamp, campfire, backpack, Ta-Da List and collaborating them in a mini-CRM suite fashion. It would be interesting how this thing gets the wing, and by looking at their track record, I would not be surprised people getting hooked to it. Most of their applications are crisp ,intuitive and great usability. Bottom line gets your and your partner’s/customer’s job done. Last but not least the first popular “CRM” initiative for Ruby On Rails platform.
