Basecamp: project-management web-app from 37Signals

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Basecamp project management service
launched

Basecamp project management service
launched 02/10/2004 03:00 AM
The design and usability gurus at 37 Signals have announced the availability of Basecamp, a hosted, Web-based service that helps you manage projects and quickly create client/project extranets...

Which Project Management Tool Should You
Use? Project Size is a Key Factor says
Industry Leading Software Developer

Which Project Management Tool Should You
Use? Project Size is a Key Factor says
Industry Leading Software Developer 06/17/2005 04:45 PM
Project KickStart is one of the worlds leading project management software tools. Different factors, such as project size, are important points to consider when deciding on project management software. [PRWEB Jun 16, 2005]

"37signals recently turned down a big
job"

"37signals recently turned down a big
job" 06/18/2004 12:29 AM

PHP Project Management

PHP Project Management 12/27/2004 02:57 AM
php-pm first release

The Art of Project Management

The Art of Project Management 06/05/2005 11:29 PM
she references

amazon.com/exec/obidosbook,%20The/ASIN/0596007868/ref=nos im/caterinanet
track this site | 2 links

Project management mistakes

Project management mistakes 08/23/2002 11:12 PM
CNET Aug 23 2002 10:07PM ET

Notes and Tips: Project Management

Notes and Tips: Project Management 08/13/2004 10:48 AM
Eric Mockensturm is looking for an update on project management applications for the Mac.

MSF Project Management Discipline v.1.1
Whitepaper

MSF Project Management Discipline v.1.1
Whitepaper 04/14/2004 11:46 AM
MSF has a distributed team approach to project management that improves accountability and allows for a great range of scalability from small projects up to very large, complex projects. This paper describes our distributed approach and explains the role of project management in the MSF team model.

Is SEO evolving into full Project
Management?

Is SEO evolving into full Project
Management? 06/07/2002 07:44 AM
"It takes a great project manager or developer and when folks ask where SEO is going I think thats the direction were moving in. A well optimized site is a well planned and developed site."

MiRex - Your Project Management Friend

MiRex - Your Project Management Friend 06/22/2005 02:02 AM
MiRex is getting its feet

Microsoft project management connects
with SAP

Microsoft project management connects
with SAP 09/16/2004 05:48 AM
ZDNet UK Sep 16 2004 9:45AM GMT

Gantt-chart based project management

Gantt-chart based project management 11/13/2003 09:00 AM
Version 3 coming soon

Hitting targets? The state of UK IT
project management

Hitting targets? The state of UK IT
project management 11/04/2003 10:34 PM
Computer Weekly Nov 4 2003 9:59PM ET

CS Odessa offers new project management
software

CS Odessa offers new project management
software 11/18/2003 05:35 PM
Computer Systems Odessa has released ConceptDraw Project, a new application that "facilitates brainstorming sessions and organizes and manages projects of any complexity and size."...

Defining and supporting project
management methodology

Defining and supporting project
management methodology 01/03/2003 02:50 AM
CNET Jan 3 2003 1:02AM ET

ASP speeds project management for NYC
parks developer

ASP speeds project management for NYC
parks developer 06/17/2004 04:35 PM
The Hudson River Park Trust, charged with establishing five miles of parkland along the Hudson River in Manhattan, has been able to effectively coordinate plans with up to 300 contractors and suppliers through the use of a hosted project management system.

Fix a bug in GanttProject, free project
management software

Fix a bug in GanttProject, free project
management software 01/22/2004 12:56 PM
GanttProject seems to be a good replacement for Microsoft Project. It is in active development, and it's supposed to run on different platforms since it is written 100% in Java. There is a bug that shows up in both Jaguar and...

XPMT - eXtreme Project Management Tool

XPMT - eXtreme Project Management Tool 08/31/2004 05:11 PM
Released new XPMT Version

Notes and Tips: Project Management
Solutions

Notes and Tips: Project Management
Solutions 06/07/2004 10:24 AM
There's an apparently wealth of project management applications, based on FileMaker and on standard Web components.

Notes and Tips: Project Management Query

Notes and Tips: Project Management Query 06/04/2004 10:56 AM
One reader is looking for the latest information about Web-based project management systems that support Macs and PCs.

dotproject: Web Based Project Management
Tool 1.0.1

dotproject: Web Based Project Management
Tool 1.0.1 01/10/2004 02:18 PM
A Web based project management system that uses PHP+MySQL.

Knowledge Management National
e-Government Project asks for help

Knowledge Management National
e-Government Project asks for help 06/28/2004 03:46 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jun 28 2004 7:06AM GMT

Poor planning is project management
mistake number one

Poor planning is project management
mistake number one 03/15/2003 02:55 AM
CNET Mar 15 2003 1:24AM ET

True confessions: What's your biggest
project management mistake?

True confessions: What's your biggest
project management mistake? 08/23/2002 08:00 AM
CNET Aug 22 2002 10:24PM ET

Best practice & programme/project
management: By John Oughton, OGC ceo

Best practice & programme/project
management: By John Oughton, OGC ceo 06/24/2004 03:00 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jun 24 2004 7:31AM GMT

Project Management: Bringing Builders
Back to Basics

Project Management: Bringing Builders
Back to Basics 09/15/2004 10:58 PM
Constructech Magazine Sep 16 2004 3:23AM GMT

Scottish Executive to improve
procurement and project management

Scottish Executive to improve
procurement and project management 09/23/2004 04:42 AM
PublicTechnology.net Sep 23 2004 8:46AM GMT

dotproject: Web Based Project Management
Tool 2.0 (Default branch)

dotproject: Web Based Project Management
Tool 2.0 (Default branch) 04/01/2005 03:26 AM
DotProject is a Web-based project management framework that includes modules for companies, projects, tasks (with Gantt charts), forums, files, a calendar, contacts, tickets/helpdesk, multi-language support, user/module permissions, and themes. It is translated into 17 languages and has a modular design that allows extra modules (such as time sheets and inventory) to be added in easily.

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Changes:
This release contains a completely new permissions system, extensive changes to the task screens, and better reporting. File version management has been introduced into the files module. In addition, the system now has an easy install/ upgrade utility that handles upgrades between versions, and between CVS snapshots. There are heaps of new usability enhancements including a new configuration system. Email support now extends to SMTP with optional authentication. User logins now support LDAP authentication, and a new PostNuke integration module comes as standard.

dotproject: Web Based Project Management
Tool 2.0.1 (Default branch)

dotproject: Web Based Project Management
Tool 2.0.1 (Default branch) 04/09/2005 03:13 AM
DotProject is a Web-based project management framework that includes modules for companies, projects, tasks (with Gantt charts), forums, files, a calendar, contacts, tickets/helpdesk, multi-language support, user/module permissions, and themes. It is translated into 17 languages and has a modular design that allows extra modules (such as time sheets and inventory) to be added in easily.

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Changes:
This release addressed some issues in installation and in operation on CGI-based systems. There were also cleanups for some problems introduced during the move to ADODB.

STANDPIPE STUDIOS RELEASES VERTABASE PRO
v3.6 PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOL

STANDPIPE STUDIOS RELEASES VERTABASE PRO
v3.6 PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOL 07/14/2004 03:05 AM
Version 3.6 offers on-demand video training knowledge center, support for Quickbooks and project planning mode. Vertabase Pro 3.6 extends the product's suite of easy-to-use project management and analysis tools by providing a new video-based Learning Center with both specific Vertabase Pro usage tips and general project management advice, support for Intuit, Inc.’s QuickBooks financial software, a new project planning mode for project “whiteboarding” and other usability updates. [PRWEB Jul 14, 2004]

Successful IT project management: By
David Harker, Citizens Advice ceo

Successful IT project management: By
David Harker, Citizens Advice ceo 06/24/2004 03:00 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jun 24 2004 7:26AM GMT

Brush Up This Summer; Largest Free
Software Project Management Course
On-line

Brush Up This Summer; Largest Free
Software Project Management Course
On-line 08/06/2004 02:33 AM
Bas de Baar has put his entire textbook about software project management on-line at his website (http://www.SoftwareProjects.org), making it the largest free internet course on software project management. [PRWEB Aug 6, 2004]

Advanced Concepts Center, LLC to Offer
Boston University Project Management
Curriculum

Advanced Concepts Center, LLC to Offer
Boston University Project Management
Curriculum 06/20/2004 03:27 AM
Advanced Concepts Center (ACC), LLC, a learning solutions company based in Roswell, Georgia has become an Education Affiliate of Boston University. ACC will be delivering Boston University’s highly acclaimed Project Management curriculum to their United States and international clients. [PRWEB Jun 20, 2004]

Goda Software Ships New Version of
Project Management Life Cycle Tool

Goda Software Ships New Version of
Project Management Life Cycle Tool 04/06/2005 02:38 AM
Analyst Pro 5.0 requirements tracking, analysis, team collaboration and lifecycle management tool introduces new features. [PRWEB Apr 6, 2005]

Basecamp

Basecamp 02/13/2004 01:24 PM

Basecamp: Web-based Project Management...: I got a private invite to this, and I signed up for the free, single-project package. It seems solid. The interface is very clean and intuitive.

Basecamp is a simple, hosted web-based service that lets you manage projects and quickly create client/project extranets. It lets you and your clients (or just you and your own internal team) keep your conversations, ideas, schedules, to-do lists, and more in one password-protected central location.

I would rap it for being being too simple, but what I've learned about collaboration apps is that their success is 10% based on functionality and 90% based on the enthusiasm and flexibility of the participants.

Even a simple wiki or weblog can be a phenomenal project management tool if the team members are enthused about the project. However, even the single greatest project management in the world won't work if no one cares.

Face it: Microsoft Exchange has enough project management tools in the default install for 99% of your projects. It's just very easy to blame project failures on the lack of tools.

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UNICENTRIC's Service Management System
Unites Three Organizations For Senior
Care NORC Project

UNICENTRIC's Service Management System
Unites Three Organizations For Senior
Care NORC Project 05/31/2004 02:00 PM
Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh, Jewish Family & Children’s Services and Jewish Association on Aging use UNICENTRIC’s Service Management System to Coordinate Projects Among Agencies [PRWEB May 24, 2004]

Basecamp and Ruby

Basecamp and Ruby 06/25/2004 09:55 PM

Rails: So what was the biggest shock of the Basecamp seminar? Finding out that it was written in Ruby. Yeah, that's right — that Japanese language that you thought no one was using. They've apparently put together a Web development framework for it which they're releasing to open-source.

Rails is a soon-to-be-released web application framework for Ruby. It's built upon well-understood patterns for web development, which should make the seasoned web developer feel right at home and the newcomer welcome.

The programmer guy had nothing but good things to say about it. He claimed he was more productive with it in one week than he was with PHP after five years.

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The Builders of Basecamp

The Builders of Basecamp 03/17/2005 03:38 AM
O'Reilly Network interviews Jason Fried of 37signals: “We built Basecamp because we needed it. I’m a big believer in investing in what you know and what you need. We invested our time, energy, and focus into building a product that we knew we needed to run our own business. When you build what you know, and when you use what you build, you’ve got a head start on delivering a breakout product.”

a first peek at basecamp

a first peek at basecamp 01/08/2004 08:11 PM
it's already the best project management UI i've ever seen, not so egregiously overbuilt as other apps
Grok Description matches for Basecamp: project-management web-app from 37Signals
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NetOffice and PHPCollab

NetOffice and PHPCollab 08/19/2004 11:22 AM

NetOffice - Online Project Management: It would appear that the excellent PHPCollab project has forked. NetOffice is a direct lift, from what I can tell. I snooped around for a while on both this site and the official PHPCollab site, but I can't find any reference to the other project on either site.

Does anyone know what's going on?

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NetOffice

NetOffice 12/24/2003 01:27 PM
NetOffice 2.5.3 - The Holiday Release

NetOffice 2.5.3

NetOffice 2.5.3 12/31/2003 04:54 PM
An online project management application.

dotproject

dotproject 02/16/2004 10:50 PM
Anon CVS now working

dotproject mods

dotproject mods 04/15/2004 09:13 PM
Forums now moved to dotproject.net

dotproject Remote Code Execution
Vulnerability

dotproject Remote Code Execution
Vulnerability 01/01/2004 04:31 AM
mindwarper_at_hush.com (Jan 29 2003)

Re: dotproject Remote Code Execution
Vulnerability : Patch

Re: dotproject Remote Code Execution
Vulnerability : Patch 01/01/2004 04:31 AM
Frog Man (Jan 29 2003)

"Basecamp review"

"Basecamp review" 08/22/2004 07:54 AM

"Basecamp Established"

"Basecamp Established" 04/03/2005 10:12 PM

The Building of Basecamp

The Building of Basecamp 06/16/2004 01:08 PM

The Building of Basecamp: A 1-day workshop on the building of a real-world web-based application: Joe and I are heading to Chicago to attend this workshop next week. We'll report on it after the fact and tell you how it went.

Immerse yourself in the hectic process of concepting, designing, developing, marketing, supporting, and maintaining a web-app used by thousands of people worldwide. [...]

We'll take you behind the scenes of the development of Basecamp, our popular web-based project management tool.

We've talked about Basecamp a bit here and here .

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Fear, Distrust, and Basecamp

Fear, Distrust, and Basecamp 02/05/2005 09:16 PM

Open and honest communication: Interesting comments from the creators of Basecamp on their users' tendency to try to hide things from others.

One of the things that has surprised me most when talking with customers who use Basecamp is how many people work in a culture of fear, deception, and distrust.

[...] One of the top requests as of late is for a company to be able to hide contractors from their clients. They don't want their clients to know that third party contractors are working on their projects. Anyway you look at that, someone isn't getting the whole truth. It puzzles me.

I trust no one, and I thrive on conflict.

"The Building of Basecamp" Review

"The Building of Basecamp" Review 06/29/2004 03:48 PM

I've been putting off posting about The Building of Basecamp because I was trying to get my hands on a picture. Neither Joe nor I thought to bring a camera, and the workshop was the first thing we did in Chicago, before Joe bought a disposable to shoot thi s great panaroma from the top of the Sears Tower.

Anyway, I can't find a decent picture, so here goes —

The biggest thing I pulled out of the workshop is that you don't have to follow all "the rules" to make something great. When you think about companies delivering services over the Web, you think about...org charts, support staff, call centers, requirements documents, functional specifications, etc.

37 Signals will blow this perception apart pretty quickly. There are just three guys: Jason, Matt, and Ryan. That's it. They don't even have a full-time programmer. David works for them part-time. From Denmark.

They don't have bug tracking, or trouble ticketing. They have two folders in AppleMail: "fixed," "not fixed." Jason spends a couple hours a day answering support emails.

Most of all, these guys are laid back. Not to the point of irresponsibility, but to the point where it's obvious they can maintain a creative groove amidst the ridiculous grind of supporting software. They talk about Basecamp as if they know they've already done something wonderful (and they have — if you don't believe me, believe these people), and everything from here on out is just gravy.

They built Basecamp the way they wanted to. All of you guys stuck in the corporate software trenches, can you imagine that — building software the way you think it should be built, without stupid restrictions? Can you imagine turning out something that was less a product of the corporate machine, and more a...craft, that you put together with pride like the prototypical old artisan in some rural town?

As you can tell, it's been a while for me.

The bottom line is that they built what they wanted to in the way they wanted to. They didn't get hung up on logistial or technical hurdles — they just kept working towards a goal as if it was completely reasonable and normal for three guys in a shared office with no programmer to build something like this. Thank goodness no one told them they were being ridiculous.

Which brings us to the workshop. It was packed with good information. So much so, that I wish it had been a bit longer. A day-and-a half would have been good, but I think we were displacing some workers from the company they office-share with, so we ran from 10 a.m. to about 6 p.m. and glossed over some stuff towards the end.

They divided the day up into sessions: Marketing, Programming, User Interface Design, etc. They spoke for a while, then presented some FAQs on that subject, then opened it up for questions. The four of them (three guys from 37 Signals, plus the programmer who flew in from Denmark) handled it as a panel discussion.

They got high marks on the presentation (done in Keynote, no less). They were very Larry Lessig-ish, in that each slide was just a sentence or two and they spoke from there. No reading of bullet points, thank goodness.

Questions were plentiful. The audience was thick with geeks (only one woman, interestingly), and they didn't hold back. Most of the questions were very intelligent, as were the answers, though sometimes the questioner was asking something expecting a very pat answer, when the truth was a little more nebulous.

Here's a sampling of some of the topics they covered. I'm just scratching the surface here, as there's too much to cover and I don't want to steal their thunder for the next time they offer this:

• Start everything with the screen design. The screen IS the application. The screen drives the functionality, not the other way around. The screen design is the requirements document. (I know, I know — the hair on the back of your neck just stood on end...)
• Get something built quickly. Iterate, iterate, iterate. Release early and often. Plan a major feature upgrade within 30 days of release.
• When designing a screen, find the epicenter — the main section of the screen where the user's eye will be drawn first. Design that and work outwards.
• Be honest with pricing. Clearly display the price, and avoid any hidden fees.
• Avoid preferences. Preferences can be cop-outs to tough problems. Whenever you have the user set a preference, you're having them make a decision (Joel Spolsky's book is big on this too). It's more challenging to come up with a solution, and mandate it. As a result, Basecamp requires something like four fields to be completed and it's ready to go.

You get the idea — there was enough of this that Joe filled up a dozen pages in a legal pad.

One of the more valulable bits was at the end when the showed us their mistakes. They had a half-dozen dead ends and time wasters that they fessed up to, including what they called a "billing fiasco" into which they sunk a dozen hours of work without checking with their merchant processor as to the validity of what they were planning to do. It turned out the processor wouldn't let them do it, and they lost a dozen hours of the programming as a result.

Any complaints? A few:

• The chairs sucked. I'm 6'4", 280 lbs. and that chair was so small it damn-near gave me a wedgie. And no tables — just rows of geeks trying to balance laptops on their...well, laps. Early on, I found a table in the back with a more comfortable seat.
• It was hot in the room. Forty people in one room will do that, and I kept wanting to crack a window.
• While they presented frequently asked questions that they had hyped in the promotional materials, they didn't always answer them soundly. But, in retrospect, I don't know what I expected. For instance, when it came t which platform to program in, I guess I was expecting a sound answer — do it in this platform. Looking back, this was just an unrealisitic expectation. What they did was tell us what they did and why, which is really all you can ask for.
• Again, the workshop was a bit too short. If it had been another half day, the attendees would have come back on the second day with so many questions that occured to them overnight. I thought up a dozen on the plane ride home.
• It was hard to hear from the back. They did it sans sound equipment, which is fine, but the Metro train went by the window just to my right about once every 10 minutes. I should have said something.

But I'm nit-picking now. None of this detracted from what was otherwise a great presentation.

Finally, this discussion wouldn't be complete without talking about the office: very cool for a hick from South Dakota. All painted brick, open spaces, and hardwood floors. The prototypical "loft" office space. The trendiness of it all was a little over-whelming.

(Joe made a very astute comment when one of them started talking about business mistakes of the past. He said, "I find it ironic that he's talking about the evils of the dot-com era while he's standing in front of a foosball table...")

37 Signals and their office mates are big, big Mac users. I didn't see a single PC, and theatre displays were the norm. They had gorgeous equipment lying around everywhere. It goes without saying that they had an open wi-fi node running.

There was one bathroom, which meant there was a line, but it was worth it when you got inside. The walls were lined with chalkboards. The topic of the discussion was "Rejected Names for Basecamp." Additionally, several people had written backwards on the board behind the mirror so you could read it normally in the reflection. Clever, no?

Lunch, incidentally, was fantastic. I had a turkey and avocado sandwich on a hard roll that about made me cry. (And you wonder why I was too big for the chairs...)

All in all, an excellent seminar on two levels: (1) the actual information presented, and (2) the vibe you got from 37 Signals in general. I came away with a very, "if they can do it, so can we" attitude which will perhaps be the biggest benefit of all in the next few months.

Something is coming from Sling & Rock. Stay tuned.

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Message Time Technology’s NetOFFICE™
Receives 2004 CRM Excellence Award from
Customer Inter@ction Solutions Magazine.

Message Time Technology’s NetOFFICE™
Receives 2004 CRM Excellence Award from
Customer Inter@ction Solutions Magazine. 08/12/2004 02:51 AM
Message Time Technology’s NetOFFICE™ Wins Top Honors for the third year in a row by helping companies of all sizes experience Virtual Office success. [PRWEB Aug 12, 2004]

How to create a user style sheet, or:
How to remove the Basecamp ad in Ta-da
lists

How to create a user style sheet, or:
How to remove the Basecamp ad in Ta-da
lists 03/14/2005 06:08 PM
User style sheets are powerful tools for changing the way that browsers display web pages. Here's a short tutorial on how to create them along with a very simple example.

Bush versus Reagan (Iraqi versus
American)

Bush versus Reagan (Iraqi versus
American) 07/17/2004 11:22 AM

A friend was complaining about Ronald Reagan yesterday, not completely mollified by his death.  What had Reagan done to bother her, I asked?  She was upset by Reagan's appointments to the Supreme Court, by his inaction on AIDS, and a variety of other domestic issues.  How could she hate Reagan more than Bush? "Bush is out there messing up foreign countries instead of our own."

Despite not having voted for either man, I discovered a strong personal preference for Reagan over Bush II.  Reagan was an American working on American problems.  Maybe he didn't do as good a job as we would have liked, but at least he was trying.  Bush, on the other hand, projects an image of spending all of his time and energy thinking about Iraq and Iraqis.  The only explanation that makes sense is that Bush is actually an Iraqi.  Who other than an Iraqi would be so interested in Iraq?  When W. is not talking about Iraq he is often talking about Jesus so probably he is an Assyrian Christian, one of the groups that lived in Iraq before the Arab invasion (background< /A>).

Perhaps Kerry and Edwards have a chance after all because they are running against a foreigner.

[Note:  there is some chance that Bush is Kuwaiti or Saudi rather than Iraqi.  The owners of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia were badly inconvenienced by Saddam.  There was a New York Times article right after the 1991 Gulf War where they talked about how the Emir of Kuwait would marry a 13- or 14-year-old girl every Friday night and then divorce her on Saturday and that this was the kind of lifestyle that American troops were supporting by giving Kuwait back to the Emir--you could understand why the Emir, even with $billions in foreign bank accounts, was so anxious to have his country back.  Still, there were never too many Christians in Kuwait or Saudi Arabia so evidence points back to W. being an Iraqi]

eMac Versus iMac Versus PowerBook

eMac Versus iMac Versus PowerBook 04/21/2004 06:37 PM
By Rob-ART Morgan, Bare Feats (via MyAppleMenu)

Google versus Yahoo versus MSN

Google versus Yahoo versus MSN 03/31/2005 09:13 AM
Hindustantimes.com - Thu Mar 31, 12:56 pm GMT

phpCollab

phpCollab 11/04/2003 12:51 AM
new project information site

P versus NP

P versus NP 04/11/2005 12:05 AM
On Friday night, we were watching Numb3rs, and the math geek character made a big deal out of the "P versus NP" question. Sean wanted to know more about what he was talking about, so here's a couple of links...

PC versus PC

PC versus PC 09/17/2004 04:34 AM
Once upon a time, the PC was pitted against the mainframe in the tussle between freedom and control. Now it's PC versus PC. In this sound clip (1 min 15 secs, mp3) from yesterday's conversatio n with Ray Ozzie, we hear about an employee with two side-by-side laptops. He does all his work on the home PC, because it has the productivity tools he needs. Then he transfers the results to his locked-down work PC by way of a USB thumbdrive. ...

Spy Versus Spy

Spy Versus Spy 06/15/2004 01:39 PM

Bruce Schneier: Breaking Iranian Codes. If the Iranians knew that the U.S. knew, why didn't they pretend not to know and feed the U.S. false information? Or maybe they've been doing that for years, and the U.S. finally figured out that the Iranians knew. Maybe the U.S. knew that the Iranians knew, and are using the fact to discredit Chalabi.

Basecamp: project-management web-app from 37Signals

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