![]() Less red, still a plus, and the only one who might get grumpy is the Swiss (who are famously neutral… yay!). RescueTime is a time management and analytics tool that enables knowledge workers to better understand their daily habits, helping them become more efficient. The guy I talked to said he’d be happy to review any revised logo we came up with to make sure it passed muster before we went to the trouble of adjusting it everywhere in our app (he did review it, and it did pass muster).Īnyhoo, I’d like to introduce you to our shiny new logo. ![]() It wasn’t a legalese missive, but rather a request for a phone call. I would like to say that working with the Red Cross on this issue has been a breath of fresh air. Whether they are in the right or not, we know the Red Cross would probably much rather spend their money and time pursuing their mission than sending letters to us… So we’re happy to adjust our logo. It honestly never occurred to us that we’d be stepping on their toes, as much as that image seems to be everywhere and as much as RescueTime is in a different market space. According to Johnson & Johnson and the Red Cross, it’s a murky landscape, at best (source: wikipedia)– J&J sued the Red Cross for… er… using the Red Cross (it’s an interesting story) and recently lost. It can’t be a very happy task trying to enforce a trademark on such a ubiquitous image (if you’re a video gamer, how many “health packs” do you grab that don’t have a red plus on ’em?). Apparently, we’re not the first to receive such a letter. On top of all of this, we got a very polite letter from the Red Cross regarding our logo. That’s great, but without larger context, it can feel pretty dark. Even iOS and Android themselves have added features to help you use your phone less. There are many apps and plugins that will help you understand some of your time. working on the next iteration of the application RescueTime for mobile: Get a complete view of your time, across all your devices.hiring (if you happen to know a Rails, Python, or C++ developer who wants to jump in with us, send ’em our way)… Our full jobs page is here.fundraising (we’ve got some exciting news on this front coming soon).scaling RescueTime to handle the steady influx of users.Sorry for the relative silence on this blog– we’ve been hard at work doing the following: ![]()
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