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Today we released Taglocity 1.1. This is a significant release for us because it's the first time we have a common code base working across Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 on Windows XP and Windows Vista.

In addition to feature parity and a consistent look-and-feel across both supported versions of Outlook, we also added some nice usability and stability improvements.  For more information, please see the press release and release notes.

I should add that we are very pleased with the way this has turned out and want to thank our user community for their continued support and generous feedback.

Now we’re focused on version 2 which is dedicated to improving collaborative tagging within workgroup environments - call it ‘Email 2.0’ if you like.  If you’re interested in Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 concepts, and work for a 'progressively cultured' medium to large company that uses Outlook, we’d love to hear from you.  Please email us or call us if you're interested in learning more and potentially participating in this exciting and ambitious project.

We're just getting warmed up!

David Towert, CEO - Terazen Technology



This weblog is sponsored by Taglocity. Taglocity 1.1 for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 released http://www.taglocity.com/Blog/PermaLink,guid,8dde74f9-9ea7-4a2b-96b5-5dbb31141e4a.aspx http://www.taglocity.com/Blog/Taglocity11ForOutlook2003AndOutlook2007Released.aspx Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:03:07 GMT <p> Today we released Taglocity 1.1. This is a significant release for us because it's the first time we have a common code base working across Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 on Windows XP and Windows Vista. </p> <p> In addition to feature parity and a consistent look-and-feel across both supported versions of Outlook, we also added some nice usability and stability improvements.  For more information, please see the <a href="http://www.taglocity.com/20070608a.htm">press release</a> and <a href="http://www.taglocity.com/fogbugz/default.asp?TaglocityGeneral.1.912.0">release notes</a>. </p> <p> I should add that we are very pleased with the way this has turned out and want to thank our user community for their continued support and generous feedback. </p> <p> Now we’re focused on version 2 which is dedicated to improving collaborative tagging within workgroup environments - call it ‘Email 2.0’ if you like.  If you’re interested in Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 concepts, and work for a 'progressively cultured' medium to large company that uses Outlook, we’d love to hear from you.  Please <a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Early Adopter Program v2">email</a> us or <a href="http://www.taglocity.com/Contact.htm#Address">call us</a> if you're interested in learning more and potentially participating in this exciting and ambitious project. </p> <p> We're just getting warmed up! </p> <p> David Towert, CEO - Terazen Technology </p> <img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.taglocity.com/Blog/aggbug.ashx?id=8dde74f9-9ea7-4a2b-96b5-5dbb31141e4a" /> <br /> <hr /> This weblog is sponsored by <a href="http://www.taglocity.com">Taglocity</a>. http://www.taglocity.com/Blog/CommentView,guid,8dde74f9-9ea7-4a2b-96b5-5dbb31141e4a.aspx
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This post is reposted from my personal blog, but I thought for some future context it would be good to have here too:

About a year ago I made the decision to start my own company and to make some software on my own. This was partly a lifestyle decision, but also something that I think a lot of technical people feel they want to do at some point in their careers - their one 'great novel' they'd like to at least try to do once. I've been very fortunate in having the opportunity to do that.

Taglocity as it is today is something I am enormously proud of, and has exceeded my fairly lowly expectations of where I thought I would be at this point. A lot of the ideas and concepts in it are very 'big' and are still evolving, but it is something that a lot of people use each day and something that actually helps people. I like it very much.

About three months ago I found myself at a cross-roads of what to do next. On one hand I had a viable living, working on something I feel passionate about and with the mix of extreme hard work and day to day flexibility I was looking for (by the way, if you ever think that creating your own software company and designing, writing, testing, marketing and selling it yourself as a lifestyle decision is *less* work than a being salary-man then you're in for a big shock) but on the other hand I felt like I had reached an impasse: Taglocity had got as big as I alone could make it.

I had customers asking for more features, opportunities to follow up and conversely found I had less and less time to do everything I wanted to do. It seem fairly obvious that Taglocity had grown to be much larger than me. I needed to grow this thing properly and with some help.

Taglocity is now owned by Terazen Technology Inc. of Vancouver BC, Canada. Terazen is a new company which my new business partner Dave Towert and I have recently founded, and of which I will now work within as CTO. I have known Dave for many years and he has a very successful track record of building a software company. I am confident that we'll be able to build both the product and the company into something very special. I also am sure that I'll enjoy doing it too. There's some more info here too.

First off, let me say that for current Taglocity customers nothing really changes. You'll get better support, more upcoming features and planned and stable roadmap of releases. We have a major website and forums update in the works, and some other plans that I'll share later.

One thing I would like to point out now though is that we are hiring. We need people that care deeply about the software that they create to come work in our Yaletown office in Vancouver BC. Some more details of the jobs we are starting with are here. This is an opportunity to get in at the start of a major new project that we want to start as soon as possible, and something that is way beyond the original vision.

On a related note, we are also now looking for groups of people within companies (small or large) that would like to join a private beta program for something related to some new collaborative tagging features in email. If you work in a group of people that would like to collaborate via email better, or get far too much email to manage, then we would like to work with you to explain and evolve our ideas. if you are curious about what we are planning then please contact here for more information. It's really something way beyond what you see in Taglocity 1.0 today.

- David Ing - CTO, Terazen Technology



This weblog is sponsored by Taglocity. Taglocity Acquisition! http://www.taglocity.com/Blog/PermaLink,guid,6140cc6c-b08a-4467-abdc-1148cf7a1442.aspx http://www.taglocity.com/Blog/TaglocityAcquisition.aspx Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:27:11 GMT <div class=itemBodyStyle> <p> This post is reposted from my personal blog, but I thought for some future context it would be good to have here too: </p> <p> About a year ago I made the decision to start my own company and to make some software on my own. This was partly a lifestyle decision, but also something that I think a lot of technical people feel they want to do at some point in their careers - their one 'great novel' they'd like to at least try to do once. I've been very fortunate in having the opportunity to do that. </p> <p> Taglocity as it is today is something I am enormously proud of, and has exceeded my fairly lowly expectations of where I thought I would be at this point. A lot of the ideas and concepts in it are very 'big' and are still evolving, but it is something that a lot of people use each day and something that actually helps people. I like it very much. </p> <p> About three months ago I found myself at a cross-roads of what to do next. On one hand I had a viable living, working on something I feel passionate about and with the mix of extreme hard work and day to day flexibility I was looking for (by the way, if you ever think that creating your own software company and designing, writing, testing, marketing and selling it yourself as a lifestyle decision is *less* work than a being salary-man then you're in for a big shock) but on the other hand I felt like I had reached an impasse: Taglocity had got as big as I alone could make it. </p> <p> I had customers asking for more features, opportunities to follow up and conversely found I had less and less time to do everything I wanted to do. It seem fairly obvious that Taglocity had grown to be much larger than me. I needed to grow this thing properly and with some help. </p> <p> Taglocity is now owned by Terazen Technology Inc. of Vancouver BC, Canada. Terazen is a new company which my new business partner Dave Towert and I have recently founded, and of which I will now work within as CTO. I have known Dave for many years and he has a very successful track record of building a software company. I am confident that we'll be able to build both the product and the company into something very special. I also am sure that I'll enjoy doing it too. There's some more info <a href="http://www.from9till2.com/ct.ashx?id=9e46a959-43bf-4a21-a14d-eb51a3005300&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.taglocity.com%2fNews.htm"><strong><font color=#004183>here</font></strong></a> too. </p> <p> First off, let me say that for current Taglocity customers nothing really changes. You'll get better support, more upcoming features and planned and stable roadmap of releases. We have a major website and forums update in the works, and some other plans that I'll share later. </p> <p> One thing I would like to point out now though is that we are hiring. We need people that care deeply about the software that they create to come work in our Yaletown office in Vancouver BC. Some more details of the jobs we are starting with are <a href="http://www.from9till2.com/ct.ashx?id=9e46a959-43bf-4a21-a14d-eb51a3005300&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.taglocity.com%2fCareers.htm"><strong><font color=#004183>here</font></strong></a>. This is an opportunity to get in at the start of a major new project that we want to start as soon as possible, and something that is way beyond the original vision. </p> <p> On a related note, we are also now looking for groups of people within companies (small or large) that would like to join a private beta program for something related to some new collaborative tagging features in email. If you work in a group of people that would like to collaborate via email better, or get far too much email to manage, then we would like to work with you to explain and evolve our ideas. if you are curious about what we are planning then please contact <a href="mailto:[email protected]"><strong><font color=#004183>here</font></strong></a> for more information. It's really something way beyond what you see in Taglocity 1.0 today. </p> <p> - David Ing - CTO, Terazen Technology </p> </div> <img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.taglocity.com/Blog/aggbug.ashx?id=6140cc6c-b08a-4467-abdc-1148cf7a1442" /> <br /> <hr /> This weblog is sponsored by <a href="http://www.taglocity.com">Taglocity</a>. http://www.taglocity.com/Blog/CommentView,guid,6140cc6c-b08a-4467-abdc-1148cf7a1442.aspx
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Jeremy Wagstaff on his Loose Wire column of the Wall Street Journal wrote a nice review of Taglocity today.

I noticed the surge in traffic to http://www.taglocity.com rather late; like a huge truck heading for the poor motionless web servers. I am currently dousing the whole rack with petrol to cool it down, which I read in wikipedia is the best thing to do, so it must be true.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117038342247195757.html

I spoke to Jeremy last week and we had a good chat. He's based in Jakarta, Indonesia, and being originally from the UK, still looks in on the British TV from there. Ironically, where I am in the UK (Dorset, you'll find it on no mortal map) 'over air' reception only allows me to get 2 TV channels and one of them really is about Cheese and goes off at 7pm with the national anthem playing. I think you can put aerials up that would rival a SETI Search, but that's only if you want the other two channels, one of which just shows a continuous loop of a tractor in black and white.

What the previous paragraph clearly demonstrates is (a) I have a striking inability to stay on message regarding Taglocity and (b) I am clearly not a talented marketeer.

Over the last month or so I've had to keep quiet about what's going on around Taglocity, and that may even have made me seem especially inept at all this. Things are a changing though.

Next week I'll have a big announcement to make about the new future of Taglocity. Many things will be changing for me personally, many good things for the product(s) and, if I may risk breaking the English Code of Understatement, be actually quite 'exciting' (Goodness, I'm both blushing and stammering now).

If you only get a couple of TV channels then do tune in here next week for the big news.

- David



This weblog is sponsored by Taglocity. Wall Street Journal and Taglocity http://www.taglocity.com/Blog/PermaLink,guid,cad73e36-983b-4cfe-8b3f-255cd00349fd.aspx http://www.taglocity.com/Blog/WallStreetJournalAndTaglocity.aspx Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:51:28 GMT <p> Jeremy Wagstaff on his Loose Wire column of the Wall Street Journal wrote a nice review of Taglocity today. </p> <p> I noticed the surge in traffic to <a href="http://www.taglocity.com">http://www.taglocity.com</a> rather late; like a huge truck heading for the poor motionless web servers. I am currently dousing the whole rack with petrol to cool it down, which I read in wikipedia is the best thing to do, so it must be true. </p> <p> <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117038342247195757.html">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117038342247195757.html</a> </p> <p> I spoke to Jeremy last week and we had a good chat. He's based in Jakarta, Indonesia, and being originally from the UK, still looks in on the British TV from there. Ironically, where I am in the UK (Dorset, you'll find it on no mortal map) 'over air' reception only allows me to get 2 TV channels and one of them really is about Cheese and goes off at 7pm with the national anthem playing. I think you can put aerials up that would rival a SETI Search, but that's only if you want the other two channels, one of which just shows a continuous loop of a tractor in black and white. </p> <p> What the previous paragraph clearly demonstrates is (a) I have a striking inability to stay on message regarding Taglocity and (b) I am clearly not a talented marketeer. </p> <p> Over the last month or so I've had to keep quiet about what's going on around Taglocity, and that may even have made me seem especially inept at all this. Things are a changing though. </p> <p> Next week I'll have a big announcement to make about the new future of Taglocity. Many things will be changing for me personally, many good things for the product(s) and, if I may risk breaking the English Code of Understatement, be actually quite 'exciting' (Goodness, I'm both blushing and stammering now). </p> <p> If you only get a couple of TV channels then do tune in here next week for the big news. </p> <p> - David<br> </p> <img width="0" height="0" src="http://www.taglocity.com/Blog/aggbug.ashx?id=cad73e36-983b-4cfe-8b3f-255cd00349fd" /> <br /> <hr /> This weblog is sponsored by <a href="http://www.taglocity.com">Taglocity</a>. http://www.taglocity.com/Blog/CommentView,guid,cad73e36-983b-4cfe-8b3f-255cd00349fd.aspx