Emily Boyd

Hello! I'm Emily, co-founder of Remember The Milk.

San Francisco, California
Emily Boyd
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Behind the Scenes

Welcome, Arvid!

Those of you who frequent the forums may have noticed a newly designated Remember The Milk team member – a fellow who goes by the name ‘arvid’. Arvid resides in The Netherlands and is a big supporter of Remember The Milk, helping to make the service available in Dutch. Arvid enjoys

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Updates

Network problems [resolved]

It looks like our primary data center is currently experiencing some network problems, making the site unavailable. Sorry to everyone for the inconvenience – we’ll post once this is resolved. Update 11:20AM Sydney time: And we’re back! We’re awaiting full details on the problem that the data

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Updates

Twitter SMS changes

You may have heard that, starting today, Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS to users outside of the USA, Canada, and India (for the full story, you can read Twitter’s announcement on their blog). If you’re using RTM for Twitter outside of the above countries, this means

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Updates

A little slow today...

You may have noticed that RTM isn’t being its usual zippy self this morning. We currently have a highly trained team of ninjas working to track down the source of the slowness; I’ll post once I have an update from them. In the meantime, I apologise to anyone

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Featured Apps

5 cool ways to interact with Remember The Milk

1. Remember the Moof Dashboard Widget for OS X Got a Mac? Malcolm McFarland has developed Remember the Moof, an awesome Dashboard widget that allows you to add and complete tasks, as well as filter by list and tags. 2. RTM Tool for Windows Timo Pijnappel has developed RTM Tool

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Updates

Scheduled maintenance [complete]

As I mentioned yesterday, we’re scheduling some maintenance this weekend to perform an upgrade to improve site performance. RTM will be down for up to an hour tomorrow (Saturday), starting at 4:45pm Sydney time (view in your timezone). I’ll post again here once we’re done – thanks

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Updates

Netvibes module and Opera support

In our eagerness to ensure that all RTM features had full support for Firefox 3, we did something pretty silly. When updating our Netvibes module to support Firefox 3, we accidentally broke support for Opera 9.5 – whoops! :( Thank you to all the Opera users who brought this to our

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Updates

Remember The Milk for Gmail (minor update)

If you’re a Firefox 2 user, you may have experienced problems with our Remember The Milk for Gmail Firefox extension over the past day or so – recent changes to Gmail’s code were preventing our extension from loading properly in this browser version (you may have noticed this if

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Behind the Scenes

We're growing!

After a series of rather unexpected events (the Apple Design Award being just one of them!), we’ve been experiencing higher than usual traffic in RTM land. In fact, over the past two weeks, an additional 60,000 people have joined RTM (Hi everyone! Welcome! :). We’re still adding hardware

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Behind the Scenes

Bob's WWDC 2008 adventures

Ever wondered what it would be like to be a stuffed monkey attending a big Apple conference with more than 5,000 humans? Wonder no longer! We took Bob along to WWDC 2008 last week to answer this very question. From lining up to see Steve Jobs present the keynote

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Updates

Now supported: the fantabulous Firefox 3

It was downloaded over 8 million times yesterday, so I’m sure that many of you have Firefox 3 already (if you don’t, get it now – it’s awesome!). We’re happy to announce that all RTM features now have full support for Firefox 3 – that includes the Remember

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Buzz

Wow! Remember The Milk wins Apple Design Award

We’re at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco this week (yes, Bob T. Monkey too), and last night went along to the Apple Design Awards. These prestigious awards recognise “technical excellence, innovation, and outstanding achievement in software development”. So, you can imagine how hugely honoured we were

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