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Back in June we could announce that we raised one million Swiss Francs for Memonic in a frist round financing. On September 7 I will give a talk explaining the background story to this financing round and share our experiences gained in the process. The talk is part of the Startup Conference organized by the Internet Briefing Club here in Zurich. 

Indicate "Guest of Dorian" in your registration and attend for CHF 60 instead of 180. 

Conference language: German. 

That was a jumbo release... Here's just a quick overview. We will publish detailed posts over the next days to highlight some of the mentioned features: 

Link to any set and generate a guestpass to share with friends only

You collected a number of private items and want to share them with some friends only? Create a guestpass link to this set.  

Share (RSS) Feeds of private sets or integrate them in your Intranet

Say you do a bit of competitor watch and want to share your research findings with colleagues in your company. Simply create a private feed and integrate this in your Intranet Feed Reader. 

"Copy to Word" for items

A simple click on this button and the item is copied to your clipboard. A simple click say in Word (for the matter: This also works for any other application with clipboard access such as Powerpoint, Excel) and your item is added to your document. 

French and Japanese versions

Finally we added the third official language of Switzerland French (the fourth - Rumantsch - still to go; we're looking for volunteers). 

And for our friends in Japan we have a little gift, too: A Japanese version.

Extensions

For the Chrome and Firefox Browser you may now download native Browser extension. Safari and Internet Explorer will follow shortly. 

Invite any number of friends with great looking introductory email

You want to share research findings with friends and colleagues and they don't have an account yet? Invite-A-Friend and anyone accepting your invitation is added to your friends' list.

As usual a ton of improvements and bug fixes, this time especially related to the group functionality and the bookmarklet. 

Read the full release notes here. We welcome any feedback!

Every once in a while we publish brief interviews with Memonic users here on our blog. We would be interested to receive more of these applied user stories!

Do you have a story to share? A hint on how you use Memonic? Collecting cooking recipes, doing research for a term paper or a report, collect blog comments, etc. We would like to know! The first 12 of you to send us your stories will be receiving a free 6 month upgrade. Simply send your story to comment@memonic.com .

Again a release with limited public visibility. The reason: We work on a couple of things under the hood. Nevertheless a number of improvements are visible: 

• Improved bookmarklet design including fixes for many capturing issues
• Compose" in a group remembers that context and saves the new Item directly in that group.
• Memonic for Windows:
  • If you create a new item, a tiny url is placed into your clipboard for easy sharing.
  • Upload attachments with your items. 

As always more details in our release notes. And as always we cherish feedback!

At Memonic we release new versions every two weeks. Usually we release smaller incremental changes that you as a user might not even notice. Not so this time. Since today the Memonic Collection has a new look & feel.

New design

We've been working behind the scenes with Rahel Vils from virtually handmade to create a lighter and more pleasing user experience. We hope you like it as much as we do.

Group improvements

But there is more. Two weeks ago we introduced Memonic Groups, a great way to share and collect items with your friends and co-workers. With this release we've added a lot of needed polish to the groups. For example you can now edit the Items of other group members. We're exited that Memonic is slowly becoming a collaborative platform.

Chinese

We've also released the Chinese Version of Memonic today. 欢迎!

There is a lot more. Please consult our release notes for details.

Yesterday we celebrated mid-summer day, 7 months Memonic.com live, our friends and partners for their courageous support during the last months. Simply put: We celebrated our Summer Party.

Special guest was Andreas Ravn from Hamburg. He was accompanying on the piano life the game Argentina - Greece. In an atmosphere of the silent movies of the roaring 20-ties of the past century, we watched a game full of emotions and before and after had a chance to chat with our friends and partners about past and future joint success. Here some pictures from the event. 

For the party we needed a piano...

It's heavy moving. After the back and forth we know now about an alternative occupation for our team...

Right at the start of the game we listen to the national anthems. 

And then finally the game started. Andreas by now in full swing playing everything from Tango to Greek folk tunes.

And our guests enjoying the show!

Thank you Andreas, a thank you to all our guests and a thank you to Anthony and his team of the Silber Bar, too!

We feel extremely honored to have been awarded this year's W.A. De Vigier Prize for Startups.

Since 1987 the W.A. De Vigier Foundation each year backs innovative and forward-looking business ideas with a cash prize worth 100'000 CHF.  Next to the prize money, the foundation supports us with coaching, contacts and a strong presence in the media. 

It's just a little over half a year since the launch of Memonic.com and one and a half years since starting the company. To receive the W.A. De Vigier award - some refer to it as "The Swiss Startup Oscar"  - at this early stage is a great honor and an acknowledgement of our idea and its potential. 

Thank you!

We just released the new private groups feature. With this, Memonic is now a great tool for several people to work together on web research and knowledge gathering.

After creating a group you can invite your friends to the group. All the group members can then add Items to the group and see everything in it. The group will appear in the collection of each member under "Your groups".

This feature makes Memonic interesting for a lot more use cases. Some examples:

• If your job is to collect press clippings about your company, why not open a Memonic group? You can then invite your coworker to the group and they will be able to see what's being written about your company and also add their own clippings.
• Here at Memonic the developers already have a Python group where we share interesting information about this programming language.
• Open a group with your spouse to brainstorm travel destinations for your next vacation.

The group feature currently still has some rough edges. We will improve this in the coming releases. Also groups will soon be available in the iOS clients and Memonic for Windows. We are also happy to receive your feedback about what is missing in your opinion.

What a surprise yesterday! Suddenly our friends Philipp and Wolfgang from the Swiss Silicon Valley Association turned up at our office. 

They brought along a big cake with a sweet inscription and an even sweeter and tasty moment a few minutes after this. 

Philipp & Wolfgang: Thank you very much for this nice and unexpected surprise! 
(For all others: Join there Silicon Valley Tour next year. It's well worth it!)

Recently we could proudly announce to have been selected as Finalist for the 2010 Red Herring 100 Europe Award. Today we announce even more proudly that we were selected as Red Herring Top 100 Winner! 

The Red Herring Top 100 Award recognizes leading private companies from Europe, celebrating these startups’ innovations and technologies across their respective industries.

“Choosing the companies with the strongest potential was by no means a small feat,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “After rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed our list down from hundreds of candidates from across Europe to the Top 100 Winners. We believe Memonic embodies the vision, drive and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture. Memonic should be proud of its accomplishment, as the competition was very strong.”

Red Herring’s editorial staff evaluated the companies on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, management quality, strategy, and market penetration.