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Basecamp, formerly known as 37signals, is a privately held American web application company based in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was co-founded in 1999 by Jason Fried, Carlos Segura, and Ernest Kim as a web design company. Segura left in 2000 and Kim left in 2003, leaving Fried as the only remaining founder. In February 2014, the company adopted a new strategy, focusing entirely on its flagship product, Basecamp, and renaming the company from 37signals to Basecamp. Since mid-2004, the company's focus has shifted from web design to web application development. Its first commercial application was Basecamp; this was followed by Backpack, Campfire, and Highrise. It maintained two freeware web applications, ''Ta-Da List'' and ''Writeboard''. However, both of these are now closed to new users and similar functionality has been incorporated in their (chargeable) product, Basecamp.〔(37signals website )〕 The open source web application framework Ruby on Rails was initially created for internal use at 37signals, before being publicly released in 2004. The company was originally named after the 37 radio telescope signals identified by astronomer Paul Horowitz as potential messages from extraterrestrial intelligence. In 2006, co-founder Jason Fried was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35. ==History== The company's initial focus was on website redesign, including work for Panera Bread and Shopping.com. The Meetup.com website was designed by web design service, whereby a single web page would be redesigned for a set fee in one week. Work on the company's first product, the project management application ''Basecamp'', began in 2003. By 2005, the company had moved away from consulting work to focus exclusively on its web applications. The Ruby on Rails web application framework was extracted from the work on Basecamp and released as open source. On July 20, 2006, the company announced that Jeff Bezos had acquired a minority stake via his personal investment company, ''Bezos Expeditions''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Basecamp (company)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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