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This week, the development team here that created Gazelle.com received a new mascot, sent to us by a fellow Boston area developer to congratulate us on our successful launch. We’d like to thank Wyatt Greene of MakeMeSustainable.com, another cool “green” company who is helping people realize an environmentally responsible and economically rewarding future. Their site also uses our current platform of choice, Ruby on Rails.

We had another exciting week, with a huge spike in traffic due to a Yahoo/US News and World Report link and a nice mention on the Today Show. We’d like to thank our hosting provider, EngineYard who helped us ramp up our capacity on short notice.

Finally, I’d like to give a well deserved shout out to our development team. They worked their butts off for the site launch and continue to keep gazelle.com running smoothly. Thanks to: Jason Wadsworth, our software architect, Kevin Kardian, our data architect, Graham Babbit, our front-end web developer, Dan Pickett, our director of engineering, Catherine Headen, our graphic designer, and Thos Niles, our product manager. We also had help from Brian Kaney and Eastern Suns with code development and Robin Dratch led QA efforts and managed a world-wide fleet of testers via our testing partner, uTest.  The team worked hard and smart and saw the sunrise on several marathon coding sessions that allowed us to launch on time with minimal downtime. What a team!

Gazelle.com also brought to you by: Lemmy, Radio Paradise, Red Bull, Moxie, the Upper Crust, and habenero hot sauce from Casa de Pedro.