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By Andrea Di Clemente
Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 17:29
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Tags on contacts: why are they so crucial?

I wrote earlier that we started using Apollo to develop Apollo. That step was really quite huge. On one hand, it told us that Apollo was finally a _product_ -- something useful to anybody, including us.

We have just about finished developing tags, and we are loving it already. As Apollo users, tags are making our lives much easier.

Here is what tags look like:

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By Andrea Di Clemente
Monday, August 9, 2010 - 20:39
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Why we will nag Apollo users on IE7 and IE8... forever

A few users pointed out that they are getting a strange warning: if they use something “quite recent” like Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, when they log into Apollo they get a big warning telling them to upgrade to a better and faster browser.

It reads like this:

You are using Internet Explorer 8. While we do support it, you will miss out on a few graphical goodies, and A LOT of speed.

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By Andrea Di Clemente
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 - 05:07
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Thank you early users!

When we released Apollo in private beta, which required invite codes to join, we didn't quite expect such a response.

Many users replied to us sending us ideas, feature requests, or simply saying "thank you". Well, this is from us:

Thank you.

Your help and feedback is invaluable to us. Keep those emails coming -- we will answer all of them timely, and we will listen to everything you say (and create tickets in our development system...).

We still have invites left; so, keep asking for them!

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