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After 9 months in various stages of development (starting as a prototype within a Firefox plugin) TimesPeople was launched on Monday 22nd across the nytimes.com web site.

I've the distinct impression that I shouldn't go into the specifics on this project just yet. I will say that it was the most rewarding and challenging project I have been involved in. Watching the number of existing and new Times users beginning to use it in real-time took my breath away.

So far the feedback is mostly positive which is always nice.

As of writing the next push of tweaks and changes should address some minor issues that won't matter to 99% of people. Among them are corrections to existing microformats and fixes to ensure full W3C compliance (current at: 59 Errors, 4 warnings, soon to be: 0).

One thing I will say, based off my experience - I will be very very happy when IE6 is no longer a white-listed browser.