Monthly Archives: March 2012
The Washington Post Vs. Splitwise
On February 2nd, the US Supreme Court decided that the Fair Housing Act does not apply to roommate searches. The upshot of this decision is that people are free to conduct roommate searches based on sex, religion, marital or family status. That is, … Continue reading
The Joys Of Living With Your Tenants
I feel odd linking to a NASDAQ page about shared real estate, but there was a nice article on one of the NASDAQ blogs recently about renting out rooms of a house or apartment that you own – that is, being a landlord … Continue reading
A TEDxSomerville review
Interested in thought leadership on the future of shared housing? Today, I posted my review of TEDxSomerville over at BostInno. If you want to see a summary of what ideas Somerville, MA’s best and brightest have for dense urban environments, you can … Continue reading
The New Monthly Summary And Google Charts
If you are a Splitwise user, you might have noticed this month that we added pie charts to our monthly summary emails. Ryan and I figured out how to do this the night before the emails went out – we … Continue reading
Ryan’s Hourly Comics
Are you waiting with bated breath for Ryan to program a new feature on Splitwise’s main web app? Well, let me introduce a whole new way to stalk him. Ryan has done hourly comics for the last 3 years, “in … Continue reading
Fixing Non-English Names inside Splitwise
Hi non-English Splitwise users, We’ve noticed that our database upgrade caused some people’s names (users with non-English letters in their name) to be encoded weirdly. There’s an easy fix: just correctly re-type your name in the “My Account” settings at the top … Continue reading
Making Splitwise Faster
(Updated 3AM) Splitwise just went through some “impromptu scheduled downtime” to make improvements to our server, and Splitwise is now way faster. We still are gathering data, but it seems to be about a factor of two more snappy. We apologize … Continue reading
