Welcome Michael Schmid!
September 28, 2009
We’re very happy to announce that Michael Schmid has joined the Amazee team as a html / css / performance engineer.
He is not only a computer scientist but also a very gifted photographer.
Don’t miss to check out his work on his site x-foto.ch. Awesome!
Did you know? – The sequel
September 18, 2009
The “Did you know?” short animation about the use and spread of Social Media has been around the blogosphere earlier this year. Now its creator, Karl Fisch has done an update. With ever more so enlightening details and numbers about our brave new online world. Enjoy, and prepare for some fast reading!
(Via Blogpiloten.)
If you burgle a house, don’t use Facebook!
September 18, 2009
Okay, part-time mobsters and wanna-be thugs, here’s a lesson in Social Media risk from West Virginia. As The Journal reports, a 19 year old burglar broke into the house of a woman at the beginning of this week in Martinsburg, WV, and stole two diamond rings from her. Obviously feeling secure in her home, he decided to check his Facebook account on her computer – and forgot to log out. It was easy for law enforcement after that. He is in custody and faces anything between one and ten years in prison. And hopefully some extra time for sheer stupidity.
(Via Twitter.)
One year Beta
September 17, 2009
Wow, it’s only been one year since Amazee officially announced its Beta launch at last year’s Web 2.0 Expo in New York. You might have expected an “already”. But the last 365 days have been so rich in entrepreneurial and personal experiences, recessions and upswings, sweets and disappointments that it’s hard to believe that all of this can fit into only one year! And I can proudly say: When the going got tough, my team got going. So here we stand, stronger than ever and happy to tell you that there are good things to come: Lots of usability and performance improvements, a new range of customized solutions for large organizations and corporations, new partnerships and languages – and last but not least, lots of new projects! Stay tuned on this blog and follow us on Twitter.
(picture attribution: hfb)
UX Book Club
September 16, 2009
On Roland Studer’s initiative we met for the first UX Book Club yesterday evening. The piece we all read was Nathan Shedroff’s Design is the Problem. The focus of the book isn’t really UX, however, the idea was to start with some literature that takes a fundamental approach to sustainable design. As broad as the book made us think, as difficult it was to create the “take-aways” for our everyday job in Web. However, it’s worth a read if you’re looking for a comprehensive 300 pages on sutainable design and production; e.g. if you’re an industrial designer, or a manager heading an industrial production site. For all others: Don’t do things today that make tomorrow worse.
Zurich’s Kooaba at TC 50
September 15, 2009
Thanks to our Technopark neighbours from kooaba, tearing out newspaper pages and having difficulties finding them belongs to the past. If you have an iPhone or an Android operated smartphone you can collect and store interesting print articles (with full text search and other features), just by “clipping” them with kooaba’s mobile application.
After the picture has been taken and transmitted, kooaba’s image recognition technology comes into play: it recognizes the article from the users picture and returns the full original electronic version of the page. The page is also automatically added to the user’s online collection on www.kooaba.com. This online collection – in contrast to the traditional stack of paper – takes no physical space, it is neatly organized, and it is easily searchable using full-text search.
Like this? Watch Mike Butcher’s intervew with Herbert fresh from TC50! And listen carefully how Mike takes the Franko-British approach to pronouncing Herbert’sname: Höörbeéé!!! Wonderful.
Kooba from Mike Butcher on Vimeo.
5th UX Chuchi
September 15, 2009
If there’s one place between Germany and Italy that allows for super instant usability learnings, it’s the UX Chuchi. Yesterday Amazee had the pleasure to accomodate the 5th drive-through with Guzuu.com in the spotlight. Below some impressions.
Amazee at CEO Day
September 14, 2009
09.09.09 at 09:09 the CEO Day 2009 started in Berne. While our CEO unfortunately had other commitments, I had the pleasure to join the event and to meet many friends and new faces in the Swiss Start-up scene. During the day there were interesting workshops around “Winning in Sales”, “Team dynamics” and the opportunity to meet the industry. At 4pm there was a Venture Leaders ceremony, where all participants of the Venture Leaders course 2009 in Boston were awarded a certificate and I – having been the proud team captain – had the chance to express the great benefits of this event in a short speech to the audience. The main benefits I highlighted were 1) practicing our pitches hundreds of times, 2) visiting companies in Boston that are great role models for us young entrepreneurs and 3) the fantastic team spirit among us participants.
Here some impressions!
Top left: Philipp Antoni from Biognosys, Beat Schillig from IFJ, Samuel Halim from Nanograde, Jürgen Weder from Neuropie, Pascal von Rickenbach from Streamforge; Top right: Evgeni Miljutin from PiezoSens, Mario Vögeli from Arktis Radiation Detectors, Zoltan Nagy from FemtoTools; Low left: Jazzband accompanying the apéro; Low right: Matthias Sala from Gbanga, Mario Vögeli from Arktis Radiation Detectors.
Top left: Barbara Yersin from Minsh, Beat Schillig from IFJ; Top right: Pascal von Rickenbach from Streamforge, Sadik Hafizovic from Zurich Instruments, Jürgen Weder from Neuropie; Low left: Daniel Leutenegger from Stemergie, Michael Friedrich from Aïmago, Lukas André from Affentranger Associates; Low right: Lukas Fischer from guzuu, Arnaud Bertrand from HouseTrip.
Top left: Birgit Coleman from Swissnex San Francisco, Martin Bopp from CTI, Marie-Jeanne Juilland from CTI; Top right: Christian Hirsig from Atizo, Greg Ovalle, US Business Angel, Hon Luu, US Business Angel, Niklas Östberg, Swedish Business Angel; Low left: Erik Fischer from syndc, Sven Rizzotti from syndc; Low right: Mario Vögeli from Arktis Radiation Detectors, Herbert Bay from kooaba, Marc Bernegger from amiando.
