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Steve Job’s a good un’

Last week we launched the first of 1DayLater’s phone applications, this one for the i-phone.

Die hard 1DayLater users will know that this has been a long time coming; mostly because the ‘bigger boys’ at the iphone store have kept returning our latest builds for picky reasons. But we’ve now squirmed our way in - hoorah!

The first of many phone apps which we will be releasing

To build the app we enlisted the help of a local web development and design house; Twisted Studio, earlier this year.

We asked Twisted to create us something which was purely for input purposes, no fancy graphs or analysis. Just a simple way of logging your activities on the go, whether that’s time spent with a client or mileage travelled.

The data then gets whisked away to each user’s 1DayLater account where the magic happens.

The app can be found here on the apple store. What’s more the app is free and we would like to keep it that way to benefit all of our users. However if you do want to pay us back then a kind review on the app store about the 1DayLater service would be hugely appreciated.

Further apps will soon be available for Google Android, Nokia N-Series and Blackberry phones.

A chance to party in Gateshead new creative workspace ‘The Shed’ before its new tenants move in

‘The Shed’ is a former Bed Warehouse in the UK city of Gateshead. After it’s former occupiers met some unknown fate (bankruptcy perhaps) the building was scheduled for demolition in around two years time. So the council, rather cleverly, have decided to turn the place into an open-plan workspace for creative companies. 

And what’s more, 1DayLater is going to be one of them! Being surrounded by a host of different interesting people will no doubt inspire us with new ideas, new drive and motivation (not that we really need it mind) - so we’re very excited.

Our soon-to-be neighbours will cover a myriad of different disciplines, comprising of artists, web designers, software companies and even a troupe of actors called Unfolding Theatre - I’m not sure whether they have an actual unfolding theatre or if it’s just a clever name but I can’t wait to find out.

The Shed space itself needs to be managed by the community, with everyone pitching in to help with fixtures and fittings etc. And some other enterprising tenants have already arranged a fundraising party in the empty space we will soon be occupying to help pay for all these things.

If you are local to the area I would urge you to come along. There will be live music and lots of interesting people to meet. Hope you can make it!

Creating a charity website in under 24 hours

It’s now just over 2 weeks until 1DayLater’s geeky charity event Webdurance. Although the idea to create charity websites overnight has been done before in the USA (see the overnight website challenge) we’re looking forward to adding some North East Flair to the concept.

And just to prove that it can be done we even created our own Webdurance website from scratch in just 21 hours - and that was just using our own technical guru David King. Imagine what we can do with 5 more of these per team!

Braaaaains….

At this point we’re pretty excited in 1DayLater HQ, and we’ve got high hopes for the future of this event. If the first Webdurance is successful we plan to make it an annual thing and help as many local charities online as possible over the coming years.

The countdown till Webdurance begins has already started!

Thanks for the enthusiasm from our volunteers so far, it really means a lot! As for now, I’ve got loads of preparation work to do so I must dash. After all there are only 15 days, 19 hours, 12 minutes and 4 seconds to go!

We’re creating a team..

Are you a skilled web-developer? Have you graduated from a North East based university in the last 3 years? If so 1DayLater would like to hear from you.

With a new office on the horizon we are keen to expand and start branching into new areas. Particularly integrating 1DayLater popular web-based programs such as project management tool basecamp.

Ok so it’s not a full time role for now, as we will be using an internship program to subsidise wages. But there are plently of great reasons why you should want to join us.

Pro’s

• We will probably want to keep you on if you are skilled enough
• You will have access to our excellent network
• You will be working alongside our CTO David King who can teach you all sorts of skills you never knew existed.
• You will be part of an ambitious software company!

Con’s

• You will inevitably have to serve your time as the ‘tea bitch’.

Just imagine the team we could create…

*all new employees must have their own black van and smoke cigars

contact paul@1daylater.com if you’re interested in this position