Refocusing.

It’s been an interesting (and eventful) couple of weeks for us, and we’re announcing today a major refocusing of Squish Software.

The most pertinent news at this time is that, as of right now, ServeBlast and its services are no longer available for subscription due to previously unforeseen and sudden issues with a third party vendor. Current BlastHoster clients will have their hosting remain online and fully functional through the billing month of May, at which point the service will go dark. We will, of course, assist them in finding a comparable host to switch.

The Automatic Website Backups software is currently going under a thorough code review, and once that is complete and deemed successful, will be released under the AGPL as promised. We apologize to those interested in this code for taking so long, but we need to make sure everything is in order before we can relicense our code.

This does not mean that Squish Software is dead. Squish Software is far from dead — we’re, in fact, previewing two products we have in the pipeline today.

The first is an iPhone application called DataTap. It’s sort of like a central ‘dashboard’ that you can quickly glance at to get an idea of, for example, how many unread emails you have, quickly grab the latest stories on your RSS feeds, check the weather, or get the latest prices on your stocks, all in one app. Since everything loads at once, this significantly reduces the time necessary to keep yourself up to date. We aren’t entirely sure about how we can open source DataTap due to the restrictions Apple places on developers through their NDA and the App Store, but we’re nonetheless looking at our options.

The second is a web service we’re calling Esse. At its core, it’s a nice, easy-to-use, and versatile sales tracking system, but what makes it unique is its pattern detection algorithms that can determine, for example, whether the slow-down of a certain product or category of products is in line with current overall sales growth, or how the price change of a high-volume product has affected its sales, taking into account its past sales history, as well as overall sales change since the price modification. Esse will be available under the AGPL upon release (however we are looking at dual-licensing for enterprises interested in fully integrating Esse into their current solutions, though this isn’t entirely finalized).

Neither of these products are available yet — DataTap will probably be available in a couple of weeks, while Esse won’t be available for many months, so we’ve setup on both products’ landing pages a place where you can provide us with your email address to which we will email you information about the product when it launches or as it comes closer to launch.

To signup, go to ItsEsse.com or DataTapApp.com. We appreciate all of your support in the past and we look forward to hearing from you in the future.

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