Hi everyone,

Recently, people trying to setup Yammer on Statuso have been running into some troubles. The reason for this is that Yammer have just changed their API authorization process due to security concerns. Please note that the security concerns are not related to statuso, but more general concerns for any website or application using the Yammer API. For more information about the changes, please see – https://www.yammer.com/api_oauth_security_addendum.html

This change has broken Yammer on Statuso, and I apologise for that. If you had already setup Yammer in Statuso, the application will continue to work (as far as we know). However, if you are trying to setup your Yammer account on Statuso for the first time it will not work.

The change by Yammer is supposedly temporary (see link above), however our developer will hopefully look into updating Statuso soon.

Regards,

Leeane

Statuso is a collaboration between Leeane (who resides in Australia) and Jeff (who resides in England). They have never met, know very little about each other and only communicated via email and Google-docs for the entire Statuso project. You may be wondering how we managed to get together and start working on Statuso? Well, it makes a nice little story actually.

One day as I was driving my car to work, I (Leeane) had the idea for an application which allows you to update several status messages from one iPhone application.

So, I had the idea. What to call it? Just so happens I had a left over domain name (statuso.com) from another venture which I never got around to actually finishing (or starting for that matter).

Ok idea + cool name, what’s next? Develop it! Here comes the interesting part. You see although I *can* develop, I mostly do websites and from what I have heard, Objective-C can be a bit tough on those not all that great at Application Development. So I knew that if I didn’t work with someone else to do that part, it would never get done.

So I wrote a blog post on my blog which put the idea out there in the world. I did up some prototype screenshots and said to the world “here’s an idea, take it if you want to develop it, please give me a little credit though”. Just so happens that Jeff seen this blog post (not many people would have as the traffic is quite low on my blog) and then contacted me about actually collaborating on the project.

So we agreed that Jeff would do all of the actual development work and I would collaborate on the design and flow/logic of the app and make the website. We also agreed on a fair split for any profits. Having two heads to brainstorm and run ideas by has also meant that the finished product is a huge improvement on my initial vision of how the app would work.

So for the last couple of months, we have both been working away at the project. And now we are pretty close to releasing the first version.

Just shows you how the Internet can bring two random people together – and harness some entrepreneurship from opposite sides of the world.

Leeane

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