The Lanyrd Blog

Introducing Guides

We’re pleased to announce a new feature, Guides! (codename Project Firefly if you’ve been reading the week-notes). Guides are a great way for you to create and curate an editorial list of conferences that matter to you.

Posted at 3:33pm on 10th January 2012 by Jake Archibald and Simon Willison and Natalie Downe and Sophie Barrett and Tom Insam

Week notes: Forbes, withdrawal symptoms and a touch of classes

Just as the party gets into full swing, January storms into the room, unplugs the stereo, disco lights, and starts shouting something about acting your age.

Posted at 4:32pm on 6th January 2012 by Jake Archibald

Week notes: Fireflying towards Christmas

This week we have mostly been concentrating on "Project Firefly", our last feature for 2011. We've moved beyond last weeks paper and wall based designs and have moved onto prototyping and building the feature.

Posted at 12:38pm on 17th December 2011 by Sophie Barrett

Week notes: Design process, stationery & Lego seagulls

It has been a week of juggling many exciting new things — not literally though because I have no co-ordination whatsoever. Project Hamster continues and we start in ernest on 'Project Firefly' which involves a significant amount of cutting gluing and sticking.

Posted at 2:38pm on 12th December 2011 by Natalie Downe

Campfire, Hubot and looking forward to 2012

This week we've mainly been playing with our new chat bot, and looking forward to the next round of conferences in 2012.

Posted at 4:22pm on 6th December 2011 by Simon Willison

Week notes: Hedgehogs and coffee

It's Monday, and I've been working here two entire weeks, which means that they've let me out of the New Employee Orientation Box for the the first time! Hello world! It sure is bright out here.

Posted at 11:39am on 28th November 2011 by Tom Insam

Timely goodness: Start and end times for events and a mini design refresh for the schedule

We're releasing a much requested improvement today - start and end for events, along with a refresh of the way we display session information.

Posted at 2:10pm on 22nd November 2011 by Jake Archibald and Simon Willison and Natalie Downe and Sophie Barrett and Tom Insam

Week notes: Puppets, garlic and RAWWWWK

On Tuesday we were dragged our of our coding lair to a 'Surprise Lanyrd night out' to celebrate Tom & I joining the team.

Posted at 4:55pm on 18th November 2011 by Jake Archibald

Week notes: Tomorrow's World, Full Frontal, Power of One and our iPhone app update

Last week we had the joy of having everyone in the office and we've been busy!

Posted at 6:24pm on 14th November 2011 by Sophie Barrett

Welcome, Tom Insam

We're excited to welcome Tom Insam, developer extraordinaire and latest addition to the Lanyrd team.

Posted at 5:26pm on 8th November 2011 by Simon Willison