First Deadline Year in Review challenge

Over the winter break, we're offering a challenge to test your knowledge about what happened in the 2007. The most skilled competitors will earn a prize!

Here's how it works:

• There are 60 questions, five from each month of 2007.
• You can leave the quiz at any time and return to finish later.
• Points earned in the Year in Review challenge will also be added to your overall Deadline score.

The top 10 finishers win "World in Photos" - a beautiful coffee table edition featuring the best images of 2007 from AFP's award-winning photographers. Winners will be determined by the highest point totals for the Year in Review Quiz as of 1800 GMT, January 11, 2008.

Let us know what you think

- The Deadline Team

AppRate - "Deadline is the slickest, best looking app on Facebook"

Deadline's first online review, a very nice Christmas present.... Thanks Bryan.

"I'm going to go out on a limb here: Deadline is the slickest, best looking app on Facebook. No contest. Now I'm sure you could argue for other well produced applications taking the title, but wouldn't that be a High-Class Problem? Indeed. I spend countless hours days weeks poo-pooing useless, ill conceived and poorly produced apps, in the hopes that 1 out of a 100 will come even close to retaining my attention for more than 2 minutes. Congratulations, Deadline, you've done it."

Read it all at:http://www.apprate.com/deadline-346/

A Taste of Catalonia for Christmas

We had our first holiday feast at B44, a real tasty Catalan restaurant a few block away from Maiden Lane.

Here's some evidence.. :)

The Move In

by Bo.

Friday, Dec. 8th was the day we packed up and left the cubicle corridors of the Embarcadero Center for our permanent office. Most of the team was moving computers and monitors up to the new office, but a couple slackers were across the street having beers (Bo and Rob). No matter, because the next day was what we had waited months for: the actual move in.

Saturday morning, we started coagulating in an alley called "Maiden Lane," named after the famous streetwalkers that used to patron this stretch of road before it became a small niche for a bunch of expensive stores.

A couple of us stood sipping coffee when our in-house dog-lover skateboarded up the road with grass stains on his pants (he had fallen) and the Colombian drove up with the moving truck.

Call it what you will (our bosses conned us with phrases like "team-building" and "bonding"), but I'll call it working on a weekend. The boys lugged enormous boxes up the stairs, and after the fun of cutting open the packages was done, all we could see was a mess, sheets of glass, metal pipe-like doohickeys, and a sheet of instructions laid out in pictures, not words (thanks Ikea). It was build your own desk day. Put your little brother to work day. Find out your sofa is ripped (and glass table top is broken) day. Bring the truck back (Diana, why didn't you bring a dolly because seven grown men can't move things) day. Pizza and beer with your coworkers day. That last one is probably the best kind of day.

We were all sort of quiet when it was done for the day (possibly because everyone was guzzling beer). There was still a lot left to do that would have to come later, like putting glass around the fishbowl for Jon and David (to box them in), and we still needed a countertop and TVs. Heck, we still need a Nintendo Wii. But all our empty walls and empty spaces remind us of is that this move wasn't really supposed to be a finished work after all. It's a huge and open space to work on and grow into -- a beginning.

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