37 Signals’ announced a couple of new features yesterday and today for their popular (100,000 users claimed on home page) and useful Basecamp project management product.
First, Basecamp now hosts files directly on their servers without the need to set up your own FTP server. Files as large as 20 mb can be uploaded.
Second, Basecamp has created a basic affiliate program. If an affiliate pushes new paying members to Basecamp, the user gets credits against their Basecamp fees.
Nice improvements, however with thes things out of the way we can look forward to 37signals’ CRM solution/addition.
We’re hard at work on the “CRM-ish” tool. Stay tuned.
Er, so… how many actives of that supposed 100,000 users?
Oh, and another thing.
On your blog, you’re going on about file uploads as if you’ve come up with some sort of miracle.
Do you realise that people have been, uh, you know, uploading files to websites pretty much since the inception of the Internet?
How is this TechCrunch-worthy? Is it because it has “37signals” written on it?
We’re not calling file uploads a miracle. There’s no mention of miracle, or revolution, or anything like that.
We’ve just made it easier for people to upload files to Basecamp. That’s all.
No outrageous claims here, just a new feature that helps people use Basecamp better.
Mark, you need to relax. When an application as widely used as Basecamp adds a new feature, I belive it is at least slightly plausible that this would be worth mention on a Web 2.0 blog… but maybe I’m crazy.
Nick is correct, he does need to cool down a bit. I also notice this type of behavior on the SvN blog all of the time.
Many people seem to get irritated when they (37signals) announce features or products and they write them off as marketing mumbo-jumbo. It’s hilarious to me.