diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 149d17e5..c5d03ee4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ for convo in Conversation.find_all(
 # the users email
 for convo in Conversation.find_all(email='joe@example.com',type='user'):
     ...
-# Iterate over through all conversations (read + unread) with a user based on 
+# Iterate over through all conversations (read + unread) with a user based on
 # the users email
 for convo in Conversation.find_all(
         email='joe@example.com', type='user', unread=False):
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ conversation.reply(
     message_type= comment', body='foo')
 # Admin (identified by email) replies with a comment
 conversation.reply(
-    type='admin', email='bob@example.com', 
+    type='admin', email='bob@example.com',
     message_type='comment', body='bar')
 
 # MARKING A CONVERSATION AS READ
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ Tag.count()
 
 ``` python
 # InApp message from admin to user
-Message.create({
+Message.create(**{
     "message_type": "inapp",
     "body": "What's up :)",
     "from": {
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ Message.create({
 })
 
 # Email message from admin to user
-Message.create({
+Message.create(**{
     "message_type": "email",
     "subject": "Hey there",
     "body": "What's up :)",
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ Message.create({
 })
 
 # Message from a user
-Message.create({
+Message.create(**{
     "from": {
         "type": "user",
         "id": "536e564f316c83104c000020"
diff --git a/intercom/__init__.py b/intercom/__init__.py
index a714b246..6fb8e520 100644
--- a/intercom/__init__.py
+++ b/intercom/__init__.py
@@ -1,17 +1,21 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-from datetime import datetime
-from json import JSONEncoder
-from .errors import ArgumentError
-from .lib.setter_property import SetterProperty
-
 import copy
 import json
+import logging
 import random
 import re
 import requests
 import time
 
+from datetime import datetime
+
+from json import JSONEncoder
+
+from .errors import ArgumentError
+from .lib.setter_property import SetterProperty
+
+
 __version__ = '2.0-alpha'
 
 
@@ -26,6 +30,9 @@
 Intercom.app_api_key to use this client."
 
 
+logger = logging.getLogger("intercom")
+
+
 class _Config(object):
     app_id = None
     app_api_key = None
@@ -63,12 +70,16 @@ def send_request_to_path(cls, method, path, params=None):
             req_params['params'] = params
         req_params['headers'] = headers
 
+        logger.debug("req params: %s", req_params)
         resp = requests.request(
             method, url, timeout=cls._config.timeout,
             auth=(Intercom.app_id, Intercom.app_api_key), **req_params)
 
-        if resp.content:
+        # the events api sends a "202 Accepted" without a body content
+        # well, actually they send back a whitespace, hence the .strip() here
+        if resp.content.strip():
             return json.loads(resp.content)
+        return dict()
 
     @classmethod
     def get(cls, path, **params):
diff --git a/intercom/conversation.py b/intercom/conversation.py
index 50bdc7d4..c33dc331 100644
--- a/intercom/conversation.py
+++ b/intercom/conversation.py
@@ -8,3 +8,7 @@
 
 class Conversation(Resource, FindAll, Find, Load, Save, Reply):
     pass
+
+
+class Message(Resource, Save):
+    pass
diff --git a/intercom/lib/flat_store.py b/intercom/lib/flat_store.py
index ce06ff77..1618c804 100644
--- a/intercom/lib/flat_store.py
+++ b/intercom/lib/flat_store.py
@@ -10,9 +10,10 @@ def __setitem__(self, key, value):
         if not (
             isinstance(value, numbers.Real) or
             isinstance(value, basestring)
-        ):
+        ) and value is not None:
             raise ValueError(
-                "custom data only allows string and real number values")
+                "custom data only allows string, real number or None values"
+                )
         if not isinstance(key, basestring):
             raise ValueError("custom data only allows string keys")
         super(FlatStore, self).__setitem__(key, value)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7f2d57e9..d1333777 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@
 from setuptools import find_packages
 from setuptools import setup
 
-with file(os.path.join('intercom', 'intercom.py')) as init:
+with open(os.path.join('intercom', '__init__.py')) as init:
     source = init.read()
-    m = re.search("__version__ = '(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)'", source, re.M)
+    m = re.search("__version__ = '(.+)'", source, re.M)
     __version__ = m.groups()[0]
 
 setup(
@@ -28,6 +28,6 @@
     classifiers=[],
     packages=find_packages(),
     include_package_data=True,
-    install_requires=["requests"],
+    install_requires=["requests", "inflection"],
     zip_safe=False
 )