A Good Day

By Matt in Diversions, Business

The sun is shining, a faster internet is coming, and the mail brought wonders aplenty:

Homemade corn chips (not mail), Caribou’s latest masterpiece, some stylish new Field Notes and a package full of Japanese pamphlets and goodies from my friend Sam, who’s abroad and fashioning baline, cat skin, and human hair into puppets. Awesome!

And we have a new mascot for September, Bruno:

A lot of you have been asking a few important questions:

1. What exactly is Sakuzaku? What do you do?
2. What is Addressful, and why should I sign up?
3. How’s it going?

We’ll address these questions in a short series of posts over the next week or so, as work on Addressful continues and we continue to organize the business and start on a number of different projects. But, briefly:

Over the last few weeks Cody’s been handling the daunting task of ironing out the production, staging, and development environments for our applications, setting up our internal systems, and dealing with the myriad business-, accounting-, and tax-related issues an LLC entails. And all while starting graduate school in computational linguistics, and still doing 20 hours a week of consulting work for Japan! I’ve been designing interfaces for our projects, sorting through dozens of résumé submissions, moving and organizing a couple months’ worth of notes, emails, and conversations into our internal wiki, and reading some really good books. And we’ve been to two AIGA Honolulu talks by some great designers.

We’ve done a little sightseeing, swimming, and surfing around blue Hawaii, too; look for more pictures in our Flickr photostream. And we’ll be uploading videos to our Vimeo account.

But it’s not all pictures and movies around here; we’ve got a lot of web development work to show off, too — what will hopefully be the start of a growing portfolio of different projects. We’ve also got some things to say about design and usability on and off the Web.

So if you haven’t done so already, go ahead and sign up for the Addressful beta. When we’re ready to launch Addressful, you’ll be the first people who get to try it out and help us iron out the bugs and make it just perfect.

All right, back to work. Stay tuned.

Sakuzaku, LLC?

By Cody in Business

As soon as Sakuzaku gets back to Honolulu, Sakuzaku may or may not have a limited-liability corporation certificate of formation in its post office box.