Happy New Year from SendMeHome! We hope you enjoy yourself tonight and stay safe.

We’ve been busy over the Holidays preparing for a large press release to tell the world about Stories. We’re starting to get some interesting ones, like Andrew’s head shaving scissors, which are now in the Midwest.

As always we love to hear your feedback. Here’s to a successful 2009!

Today, after months of development, we are happy to announce a new feature currently in beta: Stories.

Stories is a way for people to connect through shared interests, it does this by documenting the journey of an item, passed from person to person, with each new recipient adding a chapter to the story. The story’s first author, anyone with an idea and some curiosity, starts the process by specifying an objective which informs each consecutive author what they should add to the story if they receive the item.

Each story will evolve throughout time; we hope people will share personal experiences, knowledge, … Continue Reading

Things have been a bit quiet lately as we’re working hard on our next release which is due out in the beginning of November. We’re excited about all the new features that will be available. Stay tuned and keep checking back for updates!

Yesterday Molly MacDonald of Demo Girl posted a very clear and thorough video tour of SendMeHome.com.

You can view it here.

Thanks Molly, we appreciate it!

It has been one week since September 16th when we launched. So how are we doing?

- We have had 5,195 unique visitors to the site and 10% of those have created an account and registered their valuables.

- We’ve been reviewed (positively!) on a number of major review sites such as Lifehacker and CNET.

- We have received some wonderful feedback and are working to make the site more user friendly and self-explanatory. Please keep it coming! James will try to respond to each comment individually.

What do we have coming up in the future?

The Santa Barbara Independent is going to … Continue Reading

We were featured on Ottawa’s LiVE 88.5 Tech Bites section this morning.

Click Here to listen to the audio.

Below is our official press release, for a PDF version click the link in the sidebar.

New Website Launches Innovative Lost-And-Found Technology:
SendMeHome.com Saves Money, Restores Faith in Humanity

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., September 16th, 2008- Today SendMeHome.com launches
the world’s first free lost and found recovery service. Through the SendMeHome.com
website, users are able to register personal valuables which are each given a unique ID
code. The user can then write this code on the item, print free labels, or order professional
labels. Should the item ever be lost, the SendMeHome.com website allows the owner to
communicate anonymously with anyone who might find it in order to arrange … Continue Reading

After a month of intensive development and testing we’re officially out of Beta today!

The site is stable and the kinks have been worked out. We’ve been busy telling everyone about the site, from national newspapers to close friends. If you haven’t already registered an item create an account and get started! The site is free to use.

Andrew has tagged 99% of his worldly possessions and James is well on his way.

Feel free to drop us a line and tell us what you think. We’re always open to suggestions about how to improve.

We look forward to hearing from you!

James … Continue Reading

Hello!

Welcome to Send Me Home! We’re glad you’re here. This space will be used to provide you with up-to-date news on the site. We’ll keep you informed of what we’re building and get your feedback on how we can improve the site.

So, without furthur ado:

SendMeHome.com went live last night. The site will be in a beta phase for the next few weeks (months?) until we feel we have done a suitable amount of testing.

Our goal is to create a valuable service that saves you time, money, hassle, and, perhaps, will strengthen (restore?) your faith in humanity. Eventually we would like … Continue Reading