We redesigned the whole StorageRoom interface and taught StorageRoom how to speak German.
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After having issues for month with the integration of the our recurring billing provider and merchant account we now finally have a working payment system. This was the only piece of the puzzle that was missing for us to go live.
Since today StorageRoom is online and available to the world. Agencies, freelancers and mobile application owners can now manage their content in a flexible and easy-to-use interface and query our cloud-based CMS from their mobile applications.
Please check out the video and the website.
I tried hard but over time I couldn’t resist… there are just too many exciting opportunities for new startups! What is my new startup all about?
In all the mobile application projects I often encountered the same problem: it was not easy and quick enough to include dynamically-loaded content into an app. Content like a tip of the day, store locations of a retail chain or cocktail recipes for a cocktail app.
This was always way too much effort. I either had to create a small web application myself to manage and serve the content in JSON or XML or configure a large open source CMS to do this (which is a pain). And I had to host and maintain those systems, which cost time and money.
The solution I created is the StorageRoom CMS. It is cheap, flexible and allows developers to configure many different data sets. Editors can manage the content for these data sets and developers can then easily load that content into their mobile apps with JSON.
Currently the first tests are running with beta users. If you are interested in joining the other testers shoot me an email.
Follow @thriventures on Twitter to get updates about this project.
I am in Tokyo for one week now. Everything is great so far, getting around is no problem as all the metro signs are also displayed in English. In almost all other places there is no English translation, Japanese only, and I feel like an illiterate. But this what makes any trip very interesting :).
I decided to visit a Japanese exhibition on mobile technologies called Wireless Japan yesterday that took place at Tokyo Big Sight. English was barely spoken but it was an exciting and informative event, even without understanding Japanese, as I was able to look at many new electronic gadgets and mobile services.
Challenge for next week: Try Japanese coworking.
It was never planned but a friend of mine with a corporate job at a big German car manufacturer is sent to Japan for a couple of months to improve some processes at a Japanese subsidiary.
I will take that opportunity and make a 6-week trip to visit him in Tokyo from July to middle of August. I will live with him in his paid apartment (thanks!), work on different projects during the daytime and in the evenings and on the weekends we will discover Tokyo and Japan.
It will be an awesome experience to discover Japan. Please get in contact with me if you have any tips for events happening at that time that are mobile, web or startup related.
さようなら
Long time no hear… I have been so busy developing our iPhone application for Tagcrumbs that I had absolutely no time to blog.
But it was worth all the hard work, as our Tagcrumbs iPhone application is now available for download from the App Store at http://www.tagcrumbs.com/go/iphone.
You can find more information on the Tagcrumbs Blog.
About 9 months ago we had the idea of a social placemarking tool. Today we lauched it, Tagcrumbs is online. We had a lot of fun developing it and hope you will have even more fun using it.
Mark places of your interest, share them, recommend them to your friends. Tagcrumbs is the delicious for places. You can leave small crumbs where you have been, just like Hansel and Gretel did it. But they are digital, persistent and easier to organize. And nobody will eat them :).
Take a look at the slides for more details and start marking places now on www.tagcrumbs.com.
More and more people ask us what Tagcrumbs is about. We are about placemarks – personal places that you would like to remember and share.
Let’s look at two use cases to illuminate our point:
Lisa, a young professional, is doing a variety of business trips to beautiful cities like Paris, Berlin or London. She uses Tagcrumbs to remember the location and the services offered in her favorite coffee shops – the ones with a cozy atmosphere and free wifi. As she loves Thai food (it shouldn’t be too expensive though) she remembers those places and goes for a quick walk after lunch visiting a sight-seeing spot close to where she is. By following co-workers doing similar trips, Lisa sees the city through their eyes at the same time. She’s already looking forward to her next trip.
Edoardo moved to San Francisco recently and you are planning to visit him soon. You know that by then he’ll know the coolest places in town, amazing spots to take pictures (he’s a photographer), the best outdoor events (he loves rock-climbing) and the club where the crowd rocks longest. He created a collection of placemarks organized by tags and places, to share with you and his other visitors.
It’s your turn now. Get creative, think about different places you feel connected to (place of your first kiss, best hostel in the world, an amazing view at a hiking trip, … ), what they mean to you and how you would best remember and share them – and let us know about it!
So, to sum it up (for you web folks): it’s like social bookmarking (ah, del.icio.us, oh, tagging) but for places. We like to call it social placemarking – storing, organizing and sharing of personal places enriched with your memories and messages.
You can follow our progress on our startup blog.
I am still working heavily on the internet startup and the product I wrote about earlier. We are getting closer and closer to the launch.
We created a separate blog to keep you up to date. Check out our blog at:
This week’s Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted at Skydeck. As usual it contains a summary of a weeks most interesting posts from the mobile blogosphere. As a long time reader, I am more than happy to be in it and that Dan liked my post on microformats.
Go visit this week’s edition of the Carnival to stay up to date on anything mobile.
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Hi. I'm Sascha Konietzke and this is my blog. I write about mobility, the Web and startups.
I have my own startup, StorageRoom, a CMS for Mobile Applications. In addition, I am working as a freelance consultant and software engineer. more...