The Lanyrd Blog

Weeknotes: iOS apps, burly lumberjacks, & bockety arms

It's been a bit of a hectic week. We fled Castle Lanyrd and created a new upgraded base of operations a whole four minutes away, which we're lovingly calling Lanyrd:TNG. Rather than pay some burly lumberjack-shaped peoples to move stuff for us, we decided to "lumberjack up" and do it ourselves.

Posted at 12:09pm on 22nd May 2012 by Jake Archibald

New and improved: Lanyrd 2.0 for iPhone

Download our shiny new, improved iPhone app for instant information about events you're attending. Organising an event? Use our free app to keep your attendees up to date.

Posted at 3:07pm on 16th May 2012 by Jake Archibald and Simon Willison and Natalie Downe and Sophie Barrett and Tom Insam

Week notes: Adventures in Amsterdam, for one of us anyway

Jake has been entertaining attendees at Mobilism whilst the rest of us have been having a week of working on little bits and pieces.

Posted at 5:50pm on 14th May 2012 by Sophie Barrett

Week notes: Links, bullets and coverage galore

We've introduced a simple way of adding bullet points and links to content on Lanyrd. Plus, slides and video from RailsConf and The Next Web 2012.

Posted at 2:18pm on 1st May 2012 by Simon Willison

Weeknotes: improved session pages & speaker directories and upcoming iPhone design refresh

This week we Launched the official Digital Shoreditch schedule site and set up automated testing of our JavaScript. We rolled out some improvements to our session pages and speaker directories. I also have a sneak peak for you of some screenshots of our iPhone refresh and a bit more on our design process.

Posted at 8:48pm on 23rd April 2012 by Natalie Downe

Digital Shoreditch 2012: Schedule powered by Lanyrd

We're proud to announce our first Technology Partner relationship, with Digital Shoreditch 2012 here in London. Lanyrd is powering the official schedule for the festival.

Posted at 4:17pm on 17th April 2012 by Jake Archibald and Simon Willison and Natalie Downe and Sophie Barrett and Tom Insam

Weeknotes: Short, and kinda funny-looking

Another Monday, another "I was supposed to have done this on Friday" set of weeknotes!

Posted at 11:36am on 16th April 2012 by Tom Insam

Weeknotes: Coverage searches, JSConf, writing talks, browser performance & SVG

Hey, it's Jake here, bloggin' at'cha! I've just returned from JSConf with a serious case of the jetlags to find it's my turn to write the weeknotes. I'm literally nodding off as I write this.

Posted at 7:17pm on 6th April 2012 by Jake Archibald

Week notes: Digital Shoreditch and JavaScript fireworks

This week is all about how we're gearing up to provide the Digital Shoreditch schedule and how I've been off learning how to make fireworks with JavaScript.

Posted at 1:57pm on 2nd April 2012 by Sophie Barrett

How to run an unconference

Are you ready to run your own unconference? We’re here to walk you through a checklist of things to consider before getting started.

Posted at 1:46pm on 26th March 2012 by Ellen de Vries