Trick or Treat
October 31, 2008
Happy Halloween everybody!
So we are not playing tricks on you tonight — actually there are three treats the technology department wants to give to the Amazee users today.
If you are brave enough just come in and check out our latest additions around the project magazine:
Social Services Widget
next to every project and below the information box you will find a couple of well known icons: Delicious, StumbleUpon, Facebook, Digg, Google and some more… just select the one of your choice (or all of them) and spread the word of the project you just visit.
Logo Widget
due to popular demand we decided to create a special logo widget for your magazines. So if you want to brand your project magazine with your logo or banner you now have all the possibilities. No more thumbnails in this case.
Event Widget
this is (IMHO) by far the coolest widget in the magazine we have. Imagine you are planning a Halloween party, a meetup, or just any other gathering where people should tell you before if they are coming or not. The event widget does all you need. You can even create a brand new event within — and the event is automatically added to the calendar.
There was even a bit more released today — but we will tell you in the beginning of next week.
Again… Happy Halloween everybody… and now get out of the door and do some spooky things or join the Halloween project!
Sneak preview into the redesign of drupal.org
October 23, 2008
Meet our two new babies!
October 21, 2008
Have we got news for you! Right about now our own Dania is presenting Amazee to a hopefully stunned crowd at StartUp Ignite at the Web 2.0 Expo Europe in Berlin. What the crowd doesn’t know is that she is going to reveal our two newest innovations:
The first one is the Amazee Camp. You see, with the Amazee Camp we offer organizations an attractive free package containing pro memberships on Amazee for all the members of the organization, a helpdesk as well as weekly videocasts on social collaboration featuring Professor Project Pete. Find more information on the Amazee Camp by going to http://www.amazee.com/camp. Important: This offer is only valid for the first 150 organizations. So don’t wait too long!
The second baby is the Amazee Bucket. This bucket is a fund that has been created to support the most successful projects on Amazee. In other words: From all Amazee projects, the project that has most members by January 22th, 2009, 12pm PST, will receive an Amazee sponsorship of US $5000. The second-biggest project will receive a sponsorship of US $3000, and the third-biggest project will receive US $2000. Now, isn’t that grand? Find more information on the Amazee Bucket as well as the terms by going to http://www.amazee.com/bucket.
And by the time you read this, the presentation at StartUp Ignite should already be over again. Web freaks and short attention span, you know? ;)
A new Amazee employee!?!?
October 20, 2008
I was just browsing through the pics from BarCamp Berlin @ deutsche-startups.de and found our friend Dominik from Wua.la with this very stylish shirt…:
Did I miss something? Nevertheless… the shirt looks great, and it seems you guys had tons of fun! ;-)
via [deutsche-startups.de]
Web-Week-Wer-Wann-Was: nicht ohne berlinblase.de!
October 17, 2008
Florian on berlinblase.de from Amazee on Vimeo.
Barcamp Berlin 2008 im Kaiserlichen Telegraphenamt
October 17, 2008
Kai on Barcamp Berlin 08 from Amazee on Vimeo.
Amazee will be presenting at Startup Ignite!
October 16, 2008
Good news keep coming in from Berlin! Gregory and Dania have been working hard and one of the rewards is that Amazee will be one of six startup companies who get the chance to present themselves at Startup Ignite next week.
Startup Ignite will take place as part of the Web 2.0 Expo Europe in Berlin next Tuesday. So if you are at the Berlin Congress Center between 17:15 and 18:00 o’clock, drop by! All in all, almost 100 internet startups applied for a spot at Ignite. The other three first-round presenters are aki-aki, SoundCloud and iDesktop.tv. Two more will be announced.
Web 2.0 Startup Award 2008 and Internet addiction
October 15, 2008
On October 13 and 14 the conference “Web 2.0 Kongress Hamburg” took place. Amazee was one of 10 startups nominated for the Startup Award 2008, which is why I went to Hamburg on Monday morning, attended the conference and pitched at the Startup Award 2008.
Younect.de – a platform that matches employers and apprentices – won the award. Congratulations! Amazee was the runner-up with only two votes less and made the second place. Mikestar – an online karaoke platoform – made the third place. The other nominated startups were Actindo, Allyve, Geoflags, Platool, MeinProf, MyJobNextDoor and Telewebber.
On the second conference day I attended a very interesting session by Ibrahim “Ibo” Evsan, Co-founder and CTO of sevenload. He speech had the title “fixation code” and addressed the changing relationship between humans and machines and what that means for us as a society. People are more and more developing a fixation or rather addiction to mobile devices and information.
He talked about his life as a digital native, addicted to the internet and explained that the loss of his Macbook a while ago resulted in physical pain from this virtual amputation. If the last thing you do is take your I-Phone or Blackberry to bed to check your mails one last time before the long night starts, you definitely are addicted. Trying to negate this fact or trying to cover up for some of your late night mail-checking activities are even more of a proof. He wrote a whole essay about this topic you can read here on his blog (only in German).
Why am I writing about this? Because he is totally right and I see it with myself! I will not do it the cold-turkey way, but start my therapy with regular 2-hours-internet-abstinences. Maybe.
