Hey folks,

For about 3 hours yesterday (Monday, April 28, 2008), a small number of calendars were inaccessible inside FuseCal. In fact, if you logged in during that time, it would have appeared that the calendars had disappeared. The truth is that we accidentally deleted them while performing some fairly routine site maintenance. Since we made a backup of the database right before starting that work, we were able to restore everything very soon after we became aware of the problem.

We’re really sorry about any confusion or inconvenience this may have caused you. We believe everything to be back to normal now. Please let us know if you’re having any remaining issues!

Thanks a lot for using FuseCal. We appreciate your time and attention, and we’re working hard to make it as useful as possible.

cheers,
Matt

We’re back from yet another awesome trip, this time to O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.  Bill, Mike, and I had an excellent time and met a lot of really great folks.  Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth in the the Long Tail Pavilion!

One crew we met out there were guys from Angelsoft, who were going from booth to booth recording 1-minute video pitches from the various startups.  I think it’s awesome how they’ve created a record of some really new companies… Doubtless, within a few years, some of these have the potential to be pretty big names, and you’ll be able to look back and see them at a very early stage.  For context: what’s the oldest video you can find online of Larry and Sergey talking about Google?

Here’s the pitch I gave them.  I think it came out pretty good, although I had no idea I moved my head so much when I talked.  Weird.  Anyways, let me know what you think!

This may be a month on the late side, but I’d be remiss if I never posted anything about our trip to SxSW. The short version is that Austin was a total blast. Tibet and I had the most ridiculously awesome time, and met all kinds of high quality people. Frankly, it was such an obnoxiously amazing time that I’ve been putting off writing about it - I had no idea where to start!

Fortunately our friends from Batch Blue were kind enough to document some of FuseCal’s SxSW saga to video. Thanks to Michelle’s expert documentarian-ship, I can just let my talking do the talking… Did that makes sense?

With no further ado, allow me to present:

FuseCal.com’s sad SXSW tale
It’s true - Delta temporarily lost a very important bag of ours. But I like to think we made the best of the situation, inventing the “shitty card” in the process.

FuseCal.com has a fancy SXSW booth
We were on such a roll with the “shitty cards,” that we had to up the ante just a little…

Believe it or not, the self-awarded Fanciest Booth prize may have been our greatest asset at the trade show. Folks in the SxSW crowd generally had great senses of humor, so I think this was actually a really remarkable way to make an impression and start a conversation, which of course led to talking about FuseCal.com.

On the last day of the trade show, the SxSW organizers were even cool enough to announce over the loudspeaker that FuseCal.com had won the Fanciest Booth award, making the title almost-kinda-sorta-quasi-official. Sweet!

Who needs schwag or a big marketing budget when you’ve got notebook paper and tape?