I see that Soma has put up his post which means that this is now official -Popfly is no longer in alpha! This means that the old invite system is now gone - anyone can head on over to www.popfly.com and start using Popfly instantly. Woohoo!

It has been a fun and wacky ride to this point. Since May, we've added a ton of features and made a lot of changes across the board. From integration with Dapper and Facebook and a slew of other sites, to making the site a whole lot faster for everyone to a lot of other goodies. Instead of linking to just one mashup like everyone has, I urge you to check out this mashup of mashups (if you're at the Web 2.0 summit, you would have seen the kiosks running this).

For me, it has been a wild ride from the time I joined the team in May. I've worked on features as varied as Dapper and Facebook integration to the site-wide search and ranking system. I've learned a *lot* about building massive web 2.0 sites/services - for someone coming from a traditional desktop software background, it has been a pretty crazy experience.

And talking about crazy, here's a photo I took of the crazy team that builds Popfly (this was taken in my office on my birthday)

Update: Here's the Techmeme discussion.

# Thursday, October 18, 2007 9:16 AM