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Assembla Partners With oDesk

Client Assembla today announced a partnership with oDesk.

As part of the agreement, distributed workteams built, managed, and paid on oDesk will have access to Assembla’s complete suite of best-of-breed workspace tools including subversion and git code repositories, ticketing, collaboration, multi-project portfolios, and project management. More than 100,000-members of the Assembla development community seeking to hire and manage on-demand talent can now directly engage oDesk’s global community of 220,000 tested and rated professionals available on a pay-by-the-hour basis.

There’s coverage in CenterNetworks, who said:

The partnership will bring Assembla’s tools to the oDesk workers. Assembla’s tools include subversion and git code repositories, ticketing, collaboration, multi-project portfolios, and project management.

There’s also more details in the Assembla blog, here.

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Assembla in WebWorkerDaily

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There’s a nice write up of client Assembla in WebWorkerDaily this morning.

Assembla has a linear, straightforward and literal interface. No nonsense, no superfluous frills. It’s functional, practical and pragmatic.

David Parmet at Assembla says the app’s tools are for anyone working in a distributed team. You have the option of selecting pre-configured spaces including Software Development, Team Collaboration, Graphic Designers, and an Enhanced Subversion Repository.

Full article is here.

Thanks to @alizasherman of the GigaOm network for this one.

I’ve been working with and on Assembla for a while now and I’m starting to understand how some of the lesser known (at least to us non-techies) open source tools like Subversion and Agile techniques can make all of our lives easier.

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Changing The Way We Work

One of the things I’ve learned in the three years I’ve been a freelancer is that the traditional model of 9 to 5 work is no longer relevant. We now work around the clock, on weekends and we gladly take client calls while on family vacations.

Tony Schwartz is someone who’s been thinking about this and about how it’s impacting our lives and our health. Tony is the author of The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal. Tony’s point is that time is finite, we can’t make any more of it. What we can do is adopt healthier ways of getting through our work days – healthier than polishing off a bacon, egg and cheese with a pot of black coffee to start the day, for example.

I’m working with Tony to bring his message to the social media sphere. We’re starting with the launch of Tony’s blog, Changing the Way the World Works.

Please subscribe!

An aside: You’ll be able to tell right away that Tony’s background is as a writer and journalists – it’s actually a pleasure to work with someone who knows how to express his or herself with the written word.

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Subversion Doesn’t Suck

Assembla logoI asked Andy Singleton, of client Assembla, to explain to me the differences between Subversion and git. The result was this blog post – which has already generated a ton of traffic for Andy’s blog.

With Subversion, everyone is working on the same thing.  It unifies a team.  And, it’s radical because it’s really easy to use.  You get a graphical client with four point-and-click operations – checkout, update, revert, and commit.  Even designers can use it.  Even clients can use it.  People rave about its usability,  and its mind-melding social structure.

I’ve been trying to wrap my mind around a lot of these things, Subversion, Ruby, Rails, Ruby on Rails… Having Andy for a client means the answers to my questions are only a blog post away.

PS, if you are feeling generous, please give Andy’s blog post a nudge on Reddit.

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Pete Cashmore Gives Cheesy Gifts

Client GiftGirl is launching later this month. As part of our run-up to the launch, we’re asking folks about the worst gift they’ve ever received or given.

Here’s Pete Cashmore


Pete Cashmore reveals the worst gift he’s ever given! on Vimeo.

UPDATE: We’re already getting kudos for our campaign.

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