Archive for August, 2008
28Aug
Let’s make it three. I’m shifting gears to head up north to Berlin to present at Railsconf Europe. While the others stay on the shiny surface I dig deep into the inner workings of web apps.
I will show off not only MindMeister’s offline capabilities but will compare Google Gears‘ concept with Adobe AIR. The title of my talk is: Offline Rails Applications with Google Gears and Adobe AIR
I’ll also bring a pack of Premium account coupons with me. So if you’re at the conference, please do step forward, shake hands, and upgrade to premium MindMeister!
27Aug
While Thomas gets to travel to the beautiful Bay Area, I will have to make do with the - of course no less beautiful - city of Graz, Austria. From September 3-5 MindMeister will be exhibiting at the Triple-I Conference, formerly known as I-Know. I will also be giving a talk about the story of MindMeister in the Enterprise 2.0 track of the sessions, titled How to market a Web 2.0 product in an SaaS context (PDF). Of course I’ll be posting the slides to Slideshare too, afterwards.
MindMeister is also a sponsor of the conference, and every attendee gets a coupon with a free Premium license. You can redeem the license against a new Premium account for one year, or extend your existing subscription by a year. Worth $50. Nice, eh?
If you happen to be in the general Graz area next week, do drop by and get a sneak peek at the upcoming release of MindMeister…
25Aug
Fall is drawing near, the leaves are turning yellow and IT conferences are springing from the ground like mushrooms. Time for us MeisterWorkers to get back on the road, partly attending conferences, partly speaking at them. First up is the brilliant Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, organized for the third time by the equally brilliant Ismael Ghalimi.
As one of my first “outdoor” commitments for MindMeister I’ll be going to the show this year, looking to hear lots of interesting Enterprise 2.0 talk and meet folks from the industry. As you might have read on the Office 2.0 blog, MindMeister is a bronze sponsor at the conference and we’re giving away free Premium licenses for one year for all attendees. Now, if that’s not enough of an incentive to register for Office 2.0 right away!
If you want to hook up while I’m in San Francisco please get in touch, I’m more than happy to discuss all things MindMeister with you.
17Aug
Hi guys. I almost forgot to introduce myself. I’m Thomas (or Thomas N. Burg unzipped) Marketing Manager aboard MindMeister as of August 1. Since we are a pretty young startup you can imagine that my tasks are colorful and my outputs manifold. In any case I’m absolutely thrilled to be here (whispering: as one of the first paying users I was finally insourced ;-) to help growing our business.
Please step forward if you have anything that might help us to achieve exactly that.
Short bio: I spent the last 14 years with and on the web, providing education, products and services and even conferences only to infuse all that experience into MindMeister - if you care for more details please refer to http://resume.burg.cx.
Additionally you can follow me on Twitter.
14Aug
Some of you might have heard about Twitter’s announcement to terminate SMS-services outside of USA, Canada, and India.
Why does this matter for MindMeister users? We adopted Twitter’s API as a way to notify you via SMS of updates to your mind maps. Our thanks go to Twitter for allowing us to deploy this service quickly. However, it looks like the SMS features will go away the moment Twitter ends this service.
But don’t panic, you still will get notified of map changes via Twitter or email. It’s only the SMS forwarding that’s missing.
And as long as you are in Twitter supported countries - and they are working to get more and more operators to cooperate - this will continue to work.
We are already thinking about alternative ways to support SMS notifications, though as you can read - even for well funded firms like Twitter - paying the SMS bills is quite something. So if you have any ideas how to support SMS notifications please share them with us!
Update: it seems as if there are already services available that replace the missing Twitter-SMS feature.
12Aug
We currently seem to be experiencing some issues with our provider, resulting in proxy errors for our users. We are in contact with the technical staff and hope to have solved the issues soon - please bear with us!
Update: We’ve done some work and hope to have stabilized the situation - the servers should be running fine again, please drop us a comment should you experience any further issues!
