After an intense round of judging the amazing entries in our “Work to Go” contest, we’re pleased to announce our Grand Prize winner as well as the runners-up! And the iPhone goes to…graphic designer/developer Gernot Bartels! Here’s his award-winning, work-to-going, piratey shot:
What pirate wouldn’t want to work in this cool vintage trailer with his dog at the beach? The BatchBlue staff gave this one two skull and crossbones up.
You can view the other winning pictures, read the entrants’ stories, and find out why we selected each of them over on the Work to Go contest page.
When last we checked in on our friends at Rise of the Cubicle Farmer, our friends AJ, Tony and Michelle were headed West. Armed with laptops, caffeinated beverages and a couple of videocameras, they’re on a 65+ day journey around the US and Canada stopping along the way to chat with entrepreneurs, workshifters, freelancers and the companies that help them do their work wherever and whenever they need it.
They’re even using our recently launched BatchBook iPhone App to build a database of all the cool folks they meet along the way. See what AJ had to say about the App here:
Today is an exciting day for us here at BatchBlue: we’re pleased to announce the official launch of our very own iPhone app for BatchBook. Ever since we first got our hands on the original version of the iPhone (way back in 2007!) we’ve wanted to get BatchBook its own spot in the App store. And now we’re there, free and available for our BatchBook users!
We went through a couple different iterations on the app but ultimately are glad we took some extra time to make sure we produced a solid first version.
Lets get to the features of version 1.0 (to see it in action, check out our fun iPhone commercial shot by two local kid filmmakers):
As you may have heard, we’re hard at work developing an iphone app for BatchBook. This is something we’re very excited about and in preparation for the big event, we’ve asked two local filmmakers to help us get the word out.
Meet Ethan and Dylan, eight-year old twins with a passion for all things movie-related. The boys, sons of BatchBook customer and BatchBlue friend Anisa Raoof from kidoinfo.com, write about movies as Flick and Flack on their blog FlickFlackMovieTalk.com. They also recently completed a week of film camp at the very cool Kid’s Eye Summer Filmmaking Camp, and their directorial debut (complete with a walk down the red carpet!) screened this past weekend at the University of Rhode Island.
We’re proud to support these local, up and coming filmmakers and look forward to seeing what they come up with to showcase the awesomeness that will be the BatchBook iphone app.
In the meantime, we’re pleased to introduce you to Flick & Flack as they enjoy lunch from Mad Ernie’s Cafe in lovely Wayland Square!
I somehow managed to wrestle this product update post away from Sean. I’m really excited about the latest updates!
Speed Boost
The gentlemen-who-are-far-more-techie-than-I did some big time optimization behind the scenes. I noticed right away that BatchBook is much more zippy, particularly Lists & Reports. I’m sure you’ll notice, too.
Who am I kidding? iPhone is the big story!
We iPhone owners like to brag that the iPhone boasts a full-featured web browser—the same one you use on your desktop. But after the novelty of loading sites optimized for a 17″ LCD wears off, you begin to appreciate a nicely designed mobile-optimized site.
Most of the BatchBlue crew totes an iPhone and often fire up BatchBook to look up a phone number or address. While it is nice to be able to load the fully-functional site in the palm of your hand, there was too much clicking and loading to just get that darn phone number. So, we decided to optimize for mobile, starting with iPhone.
