Admittedly, going on vacation while on the verge of a beta release isn’t ideal timing. We tried to get it out the door before that, but hey, sometimes circumstances just conspire like the wind against you…

So I wasn’t sure if I’d come back to vast heaps of feedback and bugs, or to tumbleweeds tumbling and crickets chirping. (Did you know I saw actual tumbleweeds at an abandoned ranch homestead in the south Okanagan? Awesome.)

Both of those possible scenarios bring challenges, though, really, given the choice I’d take the embarrassment of data riches. And you have provided them to me!

Ilya has gotten me up to speed on issues and suggestions submitted to date, and it’s fabulous stuff. The collective community really is deliciously smart. He also did a pretty decent Melle impersonation keeping invitations going out, bug fixes processing, and feature requests recorded.

Fortunately for my job security, he seemed pretty eager to get back to his real day job.

We’ve made a few other decisions recently that I think will make our site, and our company presence in general online, even better. It is a bit more work for our designer and developers. Fortunately, we make them prove they have superhero abilities before we hire them.

In any case, keep the bug reports, suggestions, and questions coming. The result will be a site that hopefully fulfills your wildest information management dreams. Or, y’know, just helps you kick ass better at your day job. Which is pretty important, too.

And we are still welcoming those who’d like to be beta testers. Just drop me an email at melanie@aiderss.com. As always, there’s a snazzy t-shirt in it for you… :)

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This morning we passed 100 million PostRanks served. That’s 100,000,000 for those who like things numerical. w00t!

What’s especially cool is that that’s not even 100 million PostRanks served since the company launched. That’s 100 million since our PostRank launch in July! That’s 79 days, or just shy of 1,265,823 PostRanks per day. (Of course things have ramped up over time.)

Being the ambitious sorts that we are, we’re already looking forward to our 1 billionth PostRank served. (Based on North American number schemes, since we never could figure how the British count those big numbers…)

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The next version of our aiderss.com site is coming together nicely, and soon we’re going to need folks other than us to take it for a test drive. So we’re looking for beta testers!

We don’t have stringent qualifying criteria; in fact, the broader the tester demographics, the better — RSS wizards, web apps newbies, super-fans, staunch detractors — ideally they’d all be represented. The more user needs and use cases we hear about, the better we can make our site and our technology work for our community.

All testers are welcome to a snazzy AideRSS t-shirt, a note from me, and, of course, our eternal gratitude. If you’re interested in being a beta tester for us, feel free to leave a comment here, email me, or ping me on the Twitter @aiderss account.

Once I get the go-ahead from the developers, I’ll be sending out the beta invitation information.

Thanks!

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