Launched at last!

Dudes et dudettes,

As some of you might have seen already, HashThySelf Version 2 has now been live for a couple of days. We're very pleased with its look and feel, although it doesn't quite measure up to our old literary standards :-)

As I had mentioned earlier, we had some setbacks including hardware failures and network outages. But the killer setback was that Morgan R. Allen, who was originally assigned this project ran into personal emergencies that made it impossible for him to finish it in time. Fortunately for us, and thanks to Google, I managed to locate Mike Foster by searching the net for folk who had implemented things similar to what I had in mind. A quick email discussion later, despite the vast distances separating us, Mike and I had struck a chord and the cosmically cool widgets you now see on our site and yours are the results of his amazing work.

Let me take this opportunity to thank Mike for (a) stepping in to rescue us in the nick of time and (b) for doing such a great job in such a short time, allowing us to stick to our original deadline!

More good news - HashThySelf has found our first technology licensee. We have already confirmed that our simple plug-and-play deployment option works like a charm at their site. All they had to do was practically insert our HashThySelf image matching linux box into their network, point it at their image store and it went to work right-away, serving image matches from their inventory. With this new source of funding, you can therefore expect us to invest in improvements to both the service and the core technology going forward.

In other news, we have our first job posting out for a Business Development manager, although it is initially commission based. Let's hope this is the first of many in a rapidly growing venture.

Meanwhile, enjoy the new site and feel free to send us your comments. We appreciate them greatly, as always.

A. Hasher