even the mem­o­rable moments in your life pile up, when placed next to each other, like a stack of pic­tures … and of those, which moments really stand out?

Scrap­blog had been TechCrunched before, but not like this: The Real Scrap­blog is Here … Finally. Pre­vi­ously, either we were still open with the first ver­sion, or we had put on the “bub­ble wrap” as we pre­pared for launch.

Except, of course, we haven’t launched yet!

We had been hand­ing out a pre­view URL (www.scrapblog.com/preview) to friends and pre­vi­ous users of Scrap­blog, to help us kick the tires, adjust the mir­rors and rev up the engine before we got on the highway.

Despite our plans, it didn’t quite work out that way and once TechCrunch posted URL, blog­gers picked it up and word started to get out.

At this point, our advi­sors, includ­ing Shel, David and Tara, and our peers, includ­ing Jere­miah, Hyku, Dou­glas Karr, and Ryan Stew­art pitched in with their respec­tive mega­phones to point out that we’re still tidy­ing up around here

Lost in this excite­ment was a bit of hero­ism by our devel­op­ers, who had already been pushed to the max. As  Tara and Ryan
describe, Omar and his team stepped up to the plate to col­lab­o­rate with Adobe’s Apollo team, who wanted to demo a kick-ass appli­ca­tion. Since Scrap­blog is built in Flex, Omar down­loaded the Apollo SDK and stitched together a demoable appli­ca­tion for the platform.

With a bit more work, we can be ready for Apollo, which totally rocks. It’s a bit early, but it’ll be great to sup­port mobile and wire­less plat­forms, includ­ing lap­tops, and to be able to work on scrap­blogs, pre­sen­ta­tions and slideshows on the browser, with­out being con­nected to the internet.

As a bonus, it runs on the lap­top as well and now we can demo Scrap­blog with­out being con­nected

„, to be continued …

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