January 2009
7 posts
“The whole idea of a resolution is to make yourself better off than you were the...”
– A great column in The Monitor by Andy Comer
An important change in terms and policies
We’ve had some inappropriate pledges lately which forced us to update our ever so strict terms and policies. Our legal bit now has this addition:
Inappropriate pledges will be removed, unless they’re really funny.
More pledges, more coverage
We just passed our 250 pledges mark and we’re right on track to become the next small thing.
It’s great to see Pledgehammer written about and hear positive feedback. Cheryl from vital design emailed me the funniest quote about Pledgehammer: nick the greek meets buddha. I couldn’t come up with a better tagline myself.
Darius Graham, author of Being the Difference, interviewed me...
Welcome, Cancer Research UK
Today was Blue Monday, supposedly the most depressing day of the year. Psychologists say it’s down to six factors, one of which is broken New Year’s resolutions.
If you felt the blueness of this Monday because of a broken resolution, and you care about cancer, the following is hopefully good news. You can now choose Cancer Research UK as your beneficiary when you’re making a...
Pledgehammer spotted by cool spotters
For someone like that’s been a regular reader of Springwise for years it was awesome to see Pledgehammer covered there.
Tallinn-based Pledgehammer gives people a way to make their resolutions public, whether it’s stopping smoking, losing 20 lbs. or—to take an example from the more than 100 on the site—taking better care of one’s tractor. When they make their pledge, users are...
Hello 2009!
Happy New Year!
Last few days have been great. We’ve been written about on USNews, Profy, TheNakedRelationships and TheLifeExperimenter, we’ve had tweets and there are now more than a hundred pledges on Pledgehammer. If that’s not a great start of the year, I don’t know what is.
Also, we’ve fixed cheering on the site so now you can post updates on your progress or...