It’s been a big week at Attendly. We launched a redesign of our website and blog, looked into the origins of Google Analytics and shared the story of how we got Joanna Lord to be our first advisor. Phew!

There’s nothing small about Google Analytics. After all, it’s used by around half of the world’s most popular websites.

No-one knows everything that is required to build a successful company. It’s impossible. That’s why successful founders build a team of experts and advisors around them in order to fill the inevitable knowledge gaps.

Dr Wafflez gets a shock when his standard “I don’t have any change” excuse doesn’t work on this homeless man. Technology is changing, fast. You’d better think of a new excuse.

It’s been a crazy week in the tech world. Here at Attendly we’ve been exploring how the future is in smart materials, how Arduino is changing the world and announcing our release date. Now we’re as ready as you are to send off the week with a good chuckle.

Arduino is a great example of open-source technology that’s changing the world. In fact, the coolest thing about Arduino is that it’s making world-changing technology more accessible. The single-board micro controller can be bought preassembled or built from scratch using instructions found online by pretty much anyone who wants to experiment with it.

When Ted Nelson said in his 1974 book Computer Lib, “You can and must understand computers NOW,” there would have been more than a few people who thought he was jumping the gun. In hindsight, Ted was bang on.

We know you have been patiently waiting for us to launch our new event registration product to the world, so it’s only fair that we give you an update on our progress.

What more could we want for in life than to be a cool person? Thankfully there’s a guide to help us get there, written by clear-headed 7-year-old Scarlett. It’s pretty hard to argue with the logic here.

We all have dreams. They lift us up and keep us motivated. That is, until they come crashing to the ground and someone posts them on a blog for the world to laugh at on a Friday afternoon.