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Web design and development company signs up for One Percent for the Planet

(CSRwire) SANTA BARBARA, CA – October 16, 2007 – Pelago, the California-based web design and development firm and creator of Intervals, the popular web-based task and time management system, announced today that it has signed up for One Percent for the Planet, an alliance of businesses committed to leveraging their resources to create a healthier planet. Members donate at least 1 percent of their annual sales to environmental organizations worldwide.

This decision is yet another step in Pelago’s ongoing corporate commitment to social and environmental responsibility. The web application company already helps businesses reduce their use of paper and environmental impact through Intervals, its flagship application, and improve employee work-life balance.

“We were seeking to further integrate what we talk about, what we believe, and how we act,” says Braden Jones, co-founder of Pelago, of the company’s decision to join One Percent for the Planet. “It was a ‘put our money where our mouth is’ type of thing for us, and we believe in who One Percent for the Planet supports.”

Pelago is committing at least 1 percent of its annual sales to the non-profit program, joining the ranks of more than 700 other companies and individuals committed to the initiative, including founding members Patagonia and Blue Ribbon Flies, musician Jack Johnson, Native Energy, Alima Cosmetics, The TYF Group, and North Shore Productions. So far, One Percent for the Planet members have donated a total of more than $21 million to environmental groups such as Carbonfund.org, As You Sow, and Step It Up.

“Now is the time for us to take steps forward and pay attention to the things that matter to us,” says Michael Payne, Chief Architect of Intervals and a co-founder of Pelago, of Intervals’ decision to sign up for the program. “It is very easy to get involved in the rat race and have time fly by-seven years have for us. This is the year we are committing to making a few priority changes.”

“I think a lot of small companies don’t think they can afford to do this,” says Payne. “We hope to show that even small businesses matter and have global impacts, and that focusing your priorities matters. We hope that all businesses that think the environment matters will take positive steps as a company to make a difference.”

About Intervals
Created by Pelago, Intervals was originally designed to solve Pelago’s own struggles with tracking time, billing clients, and knowing where projects stood in real time. Targeted primarily to creative and communications services companies and small businesses, Intervals is a powerful tool for anyone who wishes to ease the daily stress of organizing and managing people, workflows, projects and time. Learn more about Intervals at www.myintervals.com.

About Pelago
Pelago is a Santa Barbara, California-based web design and web development firm founded in 2000. Pelago specializes in developing highly intuitive web sites and reliable web-based applications, and injecting them with solid business sense and functionality. Pelago clients include JD Power and Associates, Nexxus, Xplane, Network Hardware Resale, and TenetCare. Learn more about Pelago at www.pelagodesign.com.

Today we issued this press release:

(CSRwire) SANTA BARBARA, CA- July 30, 2007- As of today, businesses across 37 countries have tracked a total of $10,574,054 worth of work performed in Intervals (www.myintervals.com), the popular web-based task and time management system built by Pelago (www.pelagodesign.com). This is the estimated value of the 97,490 hours that have been tracked to date by worldwide users, and is based on the actual hourly rates used by Intervals customers.

For companies that rely on hourly billing, the importance of properly keeping track of the time that a business spends on client work cannot be understated-simply put, tracked time translates into revenue, while time not tracked translates into potential financial loss. Intervals enables users not only to track time spent on client jobs, but also to measure the time spent on non-billable activities. Small businesses in particular tend to be overburdened and quickly max out their capacity; Intervals helps them make sure time and resources are being spent the right way, in real-time.

But time tracking is only the most visible and immediately measurable aspect of Intervals, which features web-based tools to help small businesses and creative services firms manage projects, track time, keep version histories of files and documents, run detailed reports, and prioritize ever growing task lists.

And for those wondering about the value of keeping track of their own time, the Intervals web site (www.myintervals.com) has a Lost Time Calculator that serves as an irrefutable reminder that time does equal money. You can punch in your own hourly rate and estimated hours lost per day per worker to see how much your lost time may be costing your business.

For more information about Intervals, please visit www.myintervals.com.

About Intervals
Created by Pelago, Intervals was originally designed to solve Pelago’s own struggles with tracking time, billing clients, and knowing where projects stood in real time. Targeted primarily to creative and communications services companies and small businesses, Intervals is a powerful tool for anyone who wishes to ease the daily stress of organizing and managing people, workflows, projects and time. Learn more about Intervals at www.myintervals.com.

About Pelago
Pelago is a Santa Barbara, California-based web design and web development firm founded in 2000. Pelago specializes in developing highly intuitive web sites and reliable web-based applications, and injecting them with solid business sense and functionality. Pelago clients include JD Power and Associates, Nexxus, Xplane, Network Hardware Resale, and TenetCare. Learn more about Pelago at www.pelagodesign.com.

Intervals Revs Up Online Suite of Business Management Tools

New document support feature completes robust task and time management system

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pelago announced today a major upgrade to Intervals, its flagship time and task management system. Intervals now features full document support, including upload, transfer and version tracking capabilities. The new functionality turns the robust web-based suite of management tools into a complete and fully mobile business application.

Intervals document support represents a new trend in asynchronous web applications, which give the user real-time interaction and feedback and which leave other applications still operating in linear interfaces far behind. This has far-reaching implications for the business world, as it strives to figure out what’s real and what’s hype in the Web 2.0 space. Pelago has filtered out the practical from the hypothetical in this brave new world of the web and built a solid and responsive business application.

With the document support upgrade, users can now work with virtually any file type, retain full version histories, link documents to specific projects and tasks, search for files within projects or universally, and share files with other team members regardless of geographical location or time zone. Documents can even be tagged with keywords for easier searches. Storage quotas depend on the type of account the Intervals user has.

The new functionality peels away yet another important layer of inefficiency experienced daily by designers, programmers, writers, producers, project managers, and their clients: the email attachment. Documents sent by email can be easily lost or confused with earlier or later versions.

Even FTP, iDisk, and other file sharing mechanisms fall short, as they are stand-alone solutions that cannot be fully centralized and integrated with a company’s workflow. With Intervals, all of the pieces of a project sit in one organized, centralized work space: team member and client accounts, tasks, files, notes, instructions, timesheets, fee structures, and work modules.

“The impact of the Internet on business today cannot be overstated,” said Braden Jones, Pelago’s CEO. “Companies are demanding full workflow centralization and 24/7 universal access, and Intervals delivers on both counts.”

About Intervals
Created by Pelago, Intervals was originally designed to solve Pelago’s own struggles with tracking time, billing clients, and knowing where projects stood in real time. Targeted primarily to creative and communications services companies and small businesses, Intervals is a powerful suite of tools for anyone who wishes to ease the daily stress of organizing and managing people, workflows, projects and time. Learn more about Intervals at www.myintervals.com.

About Pelago
Pelago is a Santa Barbara, California-based web design and web development firm founded in 2000. Pelago specializes in developing highly intuitive web sites and reliable web-based applications, and injecting them with solid business sense and functionality. Pelago clients include JD Power and Associates, Nexxus, Xplane, Network Hardware Resale, and TenetCare. Learn more about Pelago at www.pelagodesign.com.