43 Actions Blog: Archive

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Beta Server Invite

We’re in the process of moving 43 Actions to the most modern servers available, on the brand new Heroku Cedar. This is a move quite unlike the previous one, where we merely exchanged server providers from HostingRails to Heroku. Upgrading the entire application to work on a modern stack will allow us to more quickly add new features and have better performance and reliability. Some new...

Oct 6th

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Moving to Heroku

Due to the many sorrows we’ve collectively had with our current hosting provider hostingrails.com, we’ve decided to finally make the move to our new home: The fantastic guys over at Heroku. This will hopefully be a very seamless migration, but some things will, for now, cease to be available: Mailing in actions isn’t possible on our current heroku setup. (However, if you really need this going...

Jul 6th

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43actions.com Crisis: Resolved

We’ve got quick notice on a massive server failure over at the 43actions.com hosting company. We thought these issues were behind us, but it seems not. We’re in the process of switching hosting companies as we speak. Our last backup of your data is from the morning of May 7th, and we hope to be back up with this restored data very soon. All data as to right before the incident is now...

May 10th

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43 Actions: 100 Terrific Web Tools for Meeting... →

Big Thanks to Kelly Sonora for the nice mention of our humble service.

Dec 15th

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Dec 6th

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Watch

We finally made a small video tour of 43 Actions, to help new users get a grasp of the app before signing up. It’s got a nice new home right smack on the login page.

Nov 9th

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Oct 23rd

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Sep 21st

Sep 11th

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Sep 3rd

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Aug 26th

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Aug 25th

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Aug 18th

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Review →

Seems we missed this one, back in April. Thanks to eDragonu for a fair and comprehensive review of 43 Actions.

Aug 14th

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Jul 22nd

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Jul 21st

43actions.com is (no longer) down

Update 2: Thanks to one of our guys we managed to track down the OpenID login problem as well. Expect a new version of 43actions.com to be deployed in the next few days, together with some other neat features. Update: We managed to isolate the problem ourselves and got 43actions.com back up. The server technicians are still trying to get the server up and running at full capacity, since resolving...

Jul 21st

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Jun 10th

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Jun 10th

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May 13th

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Spring Cleaning

In an effort to increase database performance and minimize storage requirements, we will, starting next Tuesday, remove accounts which are no longer used. We find unused accounts by looking at which accounts have not been confirmed yet. (You confirm your account by clicking the confirmation link in the email you got when you registered your 43 Actions account.) So, for extra safety, we recommend...

May 12th

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7 Days Trial Period

Updated: Our seven day trial period is now over. We hope you enjoyed using the donor exclusive features, including Jott integration or Agenda Summaries. To continue using all these features, please donate here [in EUR]. Per heavy request, we have decided to run another trial period. So starting today, all donor exclusive features are available to everyone, for a full week. We think you’ll...

Apr 10th

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43 Actions New Feature Tuesday: Agenda Summaries...

One more for our power users. Now you can access Today’s and This Week’s Agenda Summaries via the curl command-line application, and get either a straight XML or an ATOM feed. Note: This does not work with browsers. We only support curl at this moment. curl -G ‘http://user:pass@43actions.com/agenda/thisweek_feed.xml’ curl -G...

Apr 8th

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Mar 24th

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Mar 18th

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43 Actions: Towards a native iPhone application....

Apple recently revealed their plans for the “native” iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit). This was the announcement we had been waiting for for a long time, in order to start planning the development of native applications—applications that live directly on the iPhone, like Apple’s own apps—with the ability to interconnect and sync both with 43 Actions on the web,...

Mar 17th

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Site donations

We have had some recent inquires from companies and larger groups, wanting to get access to the donor exclusive features; and we have now come up with some proposals. The categories are groups of 5+, 10+, 50+ and 100+ users. Please email us at “43actions+site_donation at gmail dot com” for more information. Note: This is not a subscription model, nor is it a purchase of services with a...

Mar 16th

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Mar 11th

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How much is too little?

Update: Thanks to a recent surge in large donation sums, our average donation has now jumped to $35. Thank you all for your continued support! We have over the weeks received some very nice emails from users asking how much they should donate [in EUR]; how much the average donation is, etc. So here is the gist of it: The average donation started out at around $20 around the MacWorld 2008 launch...

Mar 7th

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Trial period is over

Seven days (actually fourteen…) have passed, and the donor exclusive features are yet again available exclusively to people who have been graciously helping us along by donating. These features include the Date picker, Jott integration and Agenda Summaries. Read more about all our donor exclusive features in previous blog posts, and see the full list on the 43 Actions About page. Thanks...

Feb 27th

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Feb 26th

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Now out of beta

Update: As you all have noticed, we kept the trial period going for an additional seven days. Tomorrow on Tuesday the 26th, we will again return to the normal order, coinciding with the launch of Twitter integration. To keep all the donor exclusive features activated, you can donate to 43 Actions using this PayPal link. Thank you! To commemorate our launch of 43 Actions v1.0, we will turn on the...

Feb 25th

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Feb 20th

Server issues

Update: The problem is now resolved and the database is up and running again. We’ll seriously consider a switch of service providers after this unacceptable breakdown. Our apologies for any inconveniences. Our hosting provider is having serious problems with their database, which is affecting many sites, including 43 Actions. We hold our thumbs that they will resolve this issue as soon as...

Feb 19th

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Feb 11th

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Feb 4th

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Regarding 43 Actions vs. the iPhone SDK

A lot of people, including ourselves, are salivating at the possibilities that will (hopefully) be unleashed by the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) that Apple is about to release. We are of course already investigating how this could fit into our own strategy going forward, with the intent of eventually releasing something that can live locally on your iPhone, and connect to 43 Actions...

Jan 31st

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Jan 29th

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43 Actions: Google AdSense advertising

Running a web application with the kind of daily traffic of a site like 43actions.com brings with it some quite substantial costs in bandwidth and hosting fees—in addition to the cost of the time it takes to actually develop the application. To help move towards attaining a sustainable business model—so we can continue to stay online in the future, for the benefit of all our users,...

Jan 28th

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43 Actions: Now 5000+ registered users. →

We achieved this milestone today at around 16:30 UTC—not even two weeks since we launched at Macworld 2008. A very special welcome to user “liebrock”, who became our 5000th member!

Jan 27th

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Jan 25th

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Jan 19th

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43actions.com: The stats are in. Wow. →

2600+ registered users and 61000+ pageviews since the launch a mere three days ago. Thanks to everyone for the interest and for all the great feedback! (And hang in there—we have a couple of really neat new features in the pipeline.)

Jan 17th

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Apple Web Apps Directory: 43 Actions →

43actions.com is now listed in Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch web applications directory.

Jan 14th

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Jan 14th

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43 Actions: Advanced to-do list for iPhone and... →

Our take on an advanced to-do list and Getting Things Done (GTD) organizer for Apple’s mobile platforms.

Jan 9th