Highrise + Lypp Mashup: April 15th

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We have had some great early  feedback on this mashup which has motivated us to make a few updates to the API prior to opening the mashup doors . We are improving upon a few things, including…

– Better user creation and management
– Updating conferences with single REST call with multiple variables, instead of multiple REST calls

Due to these and other updates we are pushing back the entry date for the 37 Signals Highrise and Gaboogie Lypp Mashup to April 15th. We will be posting another announcement here on that day inviting everyone who wants a piece of the action to sign up.

In the meantime, go check out the APIs: Highrise, Lypp
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Highrise is live. Another killer 2.0 app?

9:05 pm in Calgary. Don't know yet. I'm signing up right now in the other tab of my browser…

9:08 pm. First nice thing: I logged in with my OpenID and it worked like a charm.

9:09 pm. First not-so-nice thing: Can't import people from a csv file, and it didn't alert me to a duplicate contact.

9:15 pm. Would be nice to have a go with the Cases feature, but I'll have to upgrade to the paid version for that. Not convinced yet.

9:32 pm. OK, I caved in record time. I need the cases feature and have signed up for a Plus account.

I am, however, seriously annoyed that I didn't get a free 30-day trial on the Plus version, because I upgraded from the Free one. Great, 27 minutes and I lost $49.

10:07 pm. Now I've gone from seriously annoyed to seriously impressed. David Heinemeir Hansson emailed me directly to offer me a free month. Let's add customer service to the list of things these guys are really good at.

Update, March 20th. I've been using Highrise quite a bit today. Really starting to see the power of the application, but it's quite onerous having to add contacts one by one. Just discovered I can export everything from my Apple Address Book into one vCard, and then import that into Highrise. That's not bad, I guess.

Lots of positive press for the 37signals guys so far.