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It took long enough, but in my defence, I'm only one guy. But yeah, Taskerrific is up and in private beta, although it feels more like an alpha release to me.

Since the beginning of the week, I've been part of a small business startup program. It's got a five week in-class portion, which began Monday, where the people in the program learn how to assemble a business plan. The program is really geared towards local, home based businesses such as housepainters and furniture refinishers. Taskerrific is their first view of a social media service.

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I'm going to be away for most of the weekend, but before I head out, I want to talk a little bit about Taskerrific. I hope to have the service up and in public beta by the start of May, and in the meantime, I'll give occasional updates into the progress of Taskerrific's development.

With social networking, one of the more important things is how users connect. It might be the defining feature of a social network. And usually, from the user's perspective, it's pretty simple. Usually. But what happens under the shiny surface of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript?

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At long last, I'm announcing my social media project, Taskerrific. I decided that things have progressed to the point where I'm better served letting everyone know about it (and have you ensure I get it complete) rather than keep it secret and allow it to be easily cancelled.

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I'm referring to the social media project I've been working on for the past while. Over the past few weeks, I've only been working in fits and spurts. But yesterday saw the first day of some serious, hardcore development work on the project, as well as making the final choice on name. And this morning, I was struck by inspiration for the logo for the site.

It feels damn good to finally be making progress.