Introducing Highrise Integration: Get Basecamp & Highrise activity in one place with Periscope
January 15th, 2009 • Releases, Screencasts • No comments
Yes, it’s true: you can now see your Basecamp and Highrise activity, by project or case or all mashed up together inside of Periscope Gadget. For all of you out there that use both of these wonderful 37signals products and have been screaming for some sort of integration between the two: this one’s for you! I have to admit, I’m a late comer to the Highrise Bandwagon, but am a very happy one! Yes, it does get a little old checking the latest updates in both places, but now you don’t have to. Just setup the accounts in Periscope, pull up the gadget and let the integration love begin. You can filter by Basecamp project or Highrise case, or you can look at just a particular account… just as before.
You’ll need to find your Authentication token inside of Highrise and add that extra little piece of information to Periscope, but other than that, it’s dead easy. Here’s a specific page (with screencast) just dedicated to the Highrise API Authentication Token you should look at.
Look out for a demo of the features in a screencast soon! In the interim, login and see what this baby can do! Or, sign up…
Highrise Authentication Token (API) How To
January 15th, 2009 • How To, Screencasts • No comments
For Periscope Gadget to work with Highrise, a step needs to be taken in addition to supplying your username and password. As with Basecamp, an API switch needs to be flipped. In this case, the Highrise Authentication Token needs to be copied from your Highrise account and inserted into the settings for Periscope. The Token is 40 characters long and hexadecimal (numbers & letters A through F) — it’s an easy copy and paste. As always, we try to be as careful as possible when storing your sensitive information.
Here are the steps you’ll need to take, or just view the screencast below:
- Login to your Highrise account using your customized URL. It’ll look something like http://your-account.highrisehq.com/
- Click on the “My Info” link in the top right hand corner. You’ll be presented with the “User Account” tab of your own account.
- Click on “Reveal authentication token for feeds/API” which will show you a yellow highlighted 40 character long hexadecimal string.
- Copy this string to your clipboard.
- Login to your Periscope Gadget account at http://periscopegadget.com/login using your Periscope email and password.
- Add a new account by clicking on the “Add” link, or click on any of the pencils to edit a Highrise account that has already been setup.
- Paste the token from your clipboard into the field labelled “Highrise API Token”.
- Save your changes — you’re done!
Upcoming release, a sneak peek…
January 7th, 2009 • Everything else • No comments
I’ve been working hard on a number things here, one of which is very close to being ready for release. After talking with a power user for a little bit, I couldn’t help myself and I have to post about it. I’m not going to say anything, just provide a screenshot…
Forgot your Periscope password? Password reset now live
December 27th, 2008 • How To, Progress • No comments
I’ve received a fair number of password reminder or reset requests lately. To help speed things along, I’ve added functionality now that allows you to reset your password. Remember, we store a one-way hash of your password (combined with some other goodies) so we’re not able to remind you of your password, since we don’t even know! If you have forgotten your password, just go to the password reset page, enter your email address, and we’ll reset it for you. We’ll then send you an email with more instructions…
Mini Messages Now Live
December 26th, 2008 • Progress, Releases • 1 comment
This is a fairly small update in terms of a feature set for Periscope Gadget, but it is an update nonetheless. I’ve added mini-messages to both the iGoogle and Gmail gadgets which now let me communciate with users directly within the gadget. It’s an unobtrusive little yellow bar at the top of the gadget with a link to more information for whatever is being communicated. And, ofcourse, there is a little red x that will let you close the message indicating that you no longer wish to see it. If there’s something new that pops up, it’ll come back with the new message. You’ll never see more than one message at a time at the top. You’ll start to see the messages just as soon as your local cached copy of the gadget gets replaced by the new updated version from the Periscope Gadget server…
I’ve also added some affiliate love for Basecamp, Highrise and Freshbooks in the side bar of the blog pages for those of you that may not be familiar. Click on the referrals and if you sign up as a result, it helps feed my kids. So, thanks!
And finally, happy holidays to everyone!
Featured on the 37signals Product Blog
December 3rd, 2008 • Mentions • No comments
There was an uptick in user registrations this morning and after a little investigation I discovered that 37signals posted a note about Periscope Gadget. Thanks, Jason! It’s amazing to me how posts like this happen without any solicitation and I’m very grateful they do… exposure for Periscope is always a good thing.
Added reCAPTCHA to signup
December 1st, 2008 • Everything else, Progress • No comments
Hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving! And, to those of you outside of the USA, hope you had a great weekend.
I was looking at my Periscope admin panel this morning and I noticed a really weird trend: firstname same as the lastname in registrations, concatenation in the names themselves where it didn’t make sense, and the same domain name for email addresses: @inmail24.com.
So I did a little investigation to see if these were genuine registrations since there was no use of the gadget at all for any of the usernames. Turns out they are forum spam bots that somehow found their way into Periscope Gadget.
As a result, I’ve added a reCAPTCHA challenge-response on the signup page: I have to believe that this will reduce those silly critters.
MinneDemo photos are up — it’s me :)
November 23rd, 2008 • Everything else • No comments
Here’s the real face behind Periscope Gadget — photos from MinneDemo last week, with yours truly showing Periscope off. That’s all.
Periscope for GMail Dugg; CostPerNews mention
November 13th, 2008 • Mentions • No comments
Periscope for GMail got on to Digg, can you help push it up please? Oh, and Cost Per News also had a write up, so thanks to Sam for that.
Periscope on Lifehacker; MinneDemo recap
November 13th, 2008 • Mentions • No comments
Since I announced yesterday that Periscope was now compatible with GMail, there have been a *flurry* of registrations and many excited users trying Periscope out for the first time. I guess my hope that Periscope would reach more people through GMail is coming true! And then, as soon as I announced it, LifeHacker picked up on it and posted about it - which is great! So go on over to their site and read the article. And leave a comment too, if you are so inclined.
Last night’s demo at MinneDemo went really well, I thought. Did you know that 7 minutes of demo time is not very much at all? I raced through as many features as I could (tons to show!) on Jon Dahl’s MacBook Pro but was not able to show the Windows Desktop Gadget nor the iPhone simulation. I think people got the general jist of it and was happy to read some nice comments on Twitter afterwards.
