Pretty exciting, 2ndSite and our client ResortAC were featured today in Backbone Magazine. Backbone’s online presence is still coming along, but their magazine has national distribution and it’s an insert in Canada’s most widely circulated newspaper (read by millions of readers) the Globe and Mail .
Troy (our client) is a classic 2ndSite user. He has tried QuickBooks, Simply Accounting and two of three other accounting software packages. Finally he found 2ndSite. He switched and he is loving it.
Here is the article.
I pointed this out on my blog last week, and people seemed to get a kick out of it.
Okay… so this is the current 2ndSite home page. It’ll be going when we roll out the new brand.
Now, check this out: http://gold4hits.net/
I guess we’re flattered 
We have recently been added to the programmable web directory. You can find us here along with other great APIs. We are looking forwarded to adding additional functionality to our API in the coming months so stay tuned.
I read an interesting article the other day in The Wall Street Journal titled, “Would-Be Web Moguls Learn to Battle Spam, Beat What Rivals Offer”. [note: access is no longer open or I'd add a link. Thanks to Jerry King for sending it my way...]. It was like an American Idol of Web 2.0 Business plans with VCs as judges/panellists. One of the criteria used by the VCs judges/panellists was, “Is this thing a feature or is it a business?” This has always been a VC product assessment criteria.
Yesterday, Michael Arrington leaked screenshots of Google Online Calender. Now, I could be wrong, but I see calendars as a feature, not a business. I think Google gets this. They built Gmail first and they plan to integrate the calendar. On the other hand, I’m not sure 30boxes gets it, nor do the VCs (who I gather - though this is unconfirmed - have put millions into that business). I hope they have some huge ideas planned, things I can’t quite see (and I have not thought about it too much) and prove me wrong. That said, I see a calendar as something that works within context of, or in conjunction with, other parts of my life. For example, in MS Outlook the key app for me the email aspect. The calendar is a bonus. I’ve grown to like it a lot, but it’s not VITAL. I could use a pad and paper for my calendar and be just fine.
Long story short, calendars are a feature to me. Pooling Calendar events (i.e. event data like Ticketmaster concerts), now that’s a business.
Just my 2 cents.
Peter Rip maintains one of my favorite VC blogs. He recently posted about Microsoft and API’s, which is an echo of my post from November… I wonder if Mr. Softie will agree with our strategy? I guess time will tell…
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