Jeffrey McManus

I haven’t posted any of my usual embittered missives on the blog over the past week because I’ve been coding like a madman, cranking out stuff for our consulting clients as well as working on a major new release of Approver.com.
Yesterday we pushed out the release. The big new feature is Workgroups, which enable you [...]

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This week I’m purchasing an SSL certificate for Approver.com so we can secure our login page. Man, what a pain this is.
I have been going back and forth with Thawte for over a week now, trying to get a certificate that will do what we want to do. I originally bought their low-end product (what [...]

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This was an excellent start to the workweek. It was Approver.com’s best product review ever and it came at a crucial time (the summer lull, when all consumer internet properties experience a dip in usership and new signups).
I peeked at Approver.com’s logs a few times today and it looks like the new users who are [...]

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We did a fairly large release on Approver.com this week after not pushing any major new features for the last few months. I’ve been too busy with consulting, in fact, even to hand off anything to my most excellent offshore team. But I’ve resolved to show them — as well as Approver users — some [...]

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We pushed a new version of Approver.com this morning — you can now use the site to request a file that another user can upload directly into your document queue. More info here.

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We did a big feature announcement this morning (it’s now possible to post to your blog from within Approver.com) and we announced our first partnership (with Typepad).
Details are over on the Approver.com product blog or you can read the press release.

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Here’s the review. This piece was a precede for the Office 2.0 conference which starts this evening and goes through Thursday, when I’ll be going completely mental as I participate in a twelve-way competitive cage match lightning demo in front of the entire 500-person conference.
One cool thing that happened as I was talking to Rafe [...]

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  Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup by b_d_solis.
Here’s me making an emphatic point about sharing documents online. This was taken by the most excellent Brian Solis at the Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup on Tuesday night.

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