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88 Miles in the Business Review Weekly's top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications

Myles Eftos — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:29:00 +0800

Business Review Weekly released it's list of top 100 Australian web 2.0 lists today and 88 Miles came in at number 58!

There are some pretty cool apps on the list, including big players like Atlassian and of course our good friends Saasu.com, Scouta and Norg Media.

Rounding up the Perth list we have The broth, Minit, Buzka, Gooruze.

Congratulations to everyone who made the list!

An online version of the list can be seen here.

Saasu.com win Top CeBIT Price

Myles Eftos — Thu, 22 May 2008 11:22:00 +0800

Fellow Aussie SaaS provider and all-round nice guys, Saasu.com have taken out the an award at CeBIT 2008.

Congratulations guys, It's just a shame that time commitments prevented me going over to Syndey for the event.

New edition of 88 Miles released!

Myles Eftos — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:39:00 +0900

This release of 88 Miles has quite a number of improvements and bug fixes which I will outline is detail below — as always if you have any suggestions or comments, drop me a line!

Saasu.com integration

Many people have been asking for invoicing from 88 Miles, but since it is really outside of where I'd like to see 88 Miles go (The strap line is Simple time tracking for a reason) a third party has come to the rescue! Saasu | The web finance engine is an online accounting system that can deal with everything from invoices to payroll to inventory. The integration allows you to create invoices straight from your 88 Miles timesheets!

To enable it, you will need to have a full Saasu account. Once you do, click on “My Membership” > “Manage Files and Users” and take note of the WSAccessKey and the FileUid. Then, back at 88 Miles, click 3rd Party Apps and then Enable your access (If you are currently logged in you can save time by clicking here). Enter the access key and file uid in the fields provided.

You can now sync your companies and contacts (Click on “List companies”) and create invoices by creating a time sheet report.

OpenID support

88 Miles is now OpenID aware, so you can use your third-party OpenID to login to 88 Miles. If you have an existing 88 Miles account, you will need to claim your ID. Go to the Identites page and add you unique OpenID URL. You can even claim more than one identity!

If you aren't aware of what OpenID is, head over to http://www.openid.net

New REST endpoints

There has been quite a bit of work on the REST API — it should now be much more consistent (i.e the data that the server sends and the data that the server expects is the same). To facilitate this, the end points have changed slightly. I would recommend checking out the developer page for all of the details.

If you aren't a developer, but would like to take advantage of the 88 Miles API, MadPilot Productions is available for your integration needs. Whether you just need some scripts to migrate across to 88 Miles, or you want to modify an existing system, MadPilot can do it for you at a reasonable rate.

Pricing changes

After reviewing the different plan, we have decided to reduce the discount of the quarterly and yearly plans. They are still great value with 10% and 20% discounts respectively. For those of you already on the plans, the change will come in to effect from the first billing cycle AFTER July. Don't worry, you will get an email reminding you later on down the track!

New Server

Finally, the biggest change is our new server! We have moved over to a Joyent accelerator, which are specifically tuned to the Ruby on Rails platform. This means everything will be quicker — so now you should be spending even LESS time tracking and more time doing.

Well that's it — I hope you find the changes useful. As always, please send your feedback and suggestions via the website. Happy tracking!

Myles

2008 - new friends, new beginnings.

Myles Eftos — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:29:00 +0900

By now, we have put 2007 to bed and are waking up to 2008. I was lucky enough to be in our nations capital, Syndey for the cut-over from 2007 to 2008, watching Australia's biggest fireworks display.

I was also lucky enough to be invited to crash Saasu’s (purveyors of fine online invoicing systems) Christmas party — involving a sail around Sydney Harbour.

Saasu’s CEO, Peter created a short video documenting our adventures. It was a lot of fun — if you get a chance to jump on one of the East Sail Beneteau’s, do it.

A big thankyou to Marc and Peter for inviting me — I'm sure 2008 is going to be a big year for both our companies!

What’s happening in 2008

88 Miles is turning it up a notch in 2008. A new roll out is scheduled with in the next two weeks, introducin some bug fixes, a new server and some exciting new features! More news closer to the date…

One of the changes does affect the Web service API, so if are using the API, please drop me a line and I can give you access to a sandbox server, so you can make the transition as smooth as possible.

So again, wishing you all the best for 2008, the year of Software–as–a–Service!