On monday we (Sebastian and André) hold three sessions concerning Silverlight and Expression Blend 3 at WebTech Conference in Karlsruhe. It was exciting for us to come together with interested particpiators and colleagues.

So if you want, you can download or watch the slides of our sessions here (in german):

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If you have further questions or suggestions don’t hesitate and feel free to contact us at any time.

Yesterday i spoke about mobile tagging at webinale 09 in BCC, Berlin. It was a very cool session for me with very interested participants and really nice discussions.

So if you want, you can download or watch the slides here (in German):

Don’t forget to check out the corresponding article on create or die with an detailed overview about readers and generators (in German).

If you have further questions or suggestions don’t  hesitate and feel free to contact me at any time. If you’re a webinale visitor don’t forget to check out the really cool Webinale collector’s book and scan up some exhibitors :)

Our coding guru André created a fantastic video explaining mobile tagging:

He also published an article (in German) about that topic on CreateOrDie.de.

André is not only an expert on OpenSocial, but also on Silverlight (yeah, that’s the reason why he is working at SnipClip ;)). And so he publishes also articles about Silverlight, as a road trip around the world:

• Der Start in Las Vegas
• Weiter geht’s in Redmond
• Nächster Halt: Palo Alto
• Welcome to Amsterdam

Read them and have a good time!

Martin

Our coding guru André published several articles about OpenSocial on Create Or Die during the last months. Here is a list of the articles:

• Eine Einführung
• Google Gadget API
• Google Gadgets detailliert
• Social Gadgets
• Persistenz und Kommunikation

Have fun reading it and have a good time!

Martin

Here is a list of events we will participate as speaker or audience in 2009:

Web Montag, Augsburg, 26. January

• Martin Szugat: Virtuelle Güter und Social Gaming

Web Montag, Munich, 9. February

• (Hm, do not know yet whether to repeat my session from the Web Montag Augsburg)

Challenges and Opportunities 2009, Munich, 18. February

BASTA, Darmstadt, 23-27. February

• Sebastian Schmitt: Stolpersteine in Silverlight 2.0
• André Wussow: Silverlight 2 – Warum muss Visual Basic im Firefox-Browser laufen?
• Martin Szugat: XML in der Praxis und in .NET

Webinale, Berlin, 25-27. May

• André Wussow: Mobile Tagging
• Martin Szugat: virtuelle Güter – reale Gewinne
• Martin Szugat: Startup Day

Meet you offline in 2009 ;) Until then, have a good time!

Martin

Here it is, our interview with Anke from the German dot.net magazin at the BASTA! conference about Silverlight in the Social Web and, of course, about SnipClip:

“The Best of Best Practices” is the slogan of the upcoming BASTA conference. The conference website shows a trailer with scenes from the last BASTA conference. André and I presented our application there and we were also interviewed. So take a look (full interview is coming soon):

During the last days Andr̩ did a great job in redesigning paidcontentisback.com and in designing our corporate website snipclip.com. Yeah, we are not Squirrel anymore Рno one could speak that name well by the way and it was a horror to spell it on the telephone! I hope you like our new name.

Here’s the story behind the name: Squirrel is now SnipClip. It’s our first news posting. The news section will contain official announcements concerning SnipClip whereas the blog (still at paidcontentisback.com) will serve us as a “think tank” and a way to communicate with you!

Most of the information from the blog sidebar moved to snipclip.com. You find links to the relevant pages at the bottom of this page. We are still in the process of fine tuning the web design and the content. So if you have any suggestions or feedback, let us know!

Here are some exciting news from our head quarter in Garching (near the “Atomei” – the nuclear power plant of the Technical University of Munich that looks like a egg):

1. We lost our business angels: they demanded 50% of the company, we offered much less. The insight from this eposide: always speak to multiple investors at the same time. Now we apply for different governmental support programs and further competitions.
2. That’s why we spend for example the whole Monday until Midnight to update our business plan for the Gründerwettbewerb “(founder competition”) of the Wirtschaftsministerium (“ministry of economics”) and for the competition of the magazine “Wirtschaftswoche”. Wish us luck!
3. Our team (see about us) gets bigger: Matthias, he studies media business in Mainz, joins our company as a trainee; André, a computer science student from Aachen, speaker colleague from the BASTA! conference and author for CREATE OR DIE, works for us as a freelancer (for Silverlight development) and will join us in october for a trainee semester; finally, a well experienced marketeer helps us two days a week with our marketing.
4. The UnternehmerTUM provided us four additional monitors! Yeah! So we can use the monitors of our notebooks in addition to the big ones what makes development and design much more fun! A big thanks to Sebastian from the UnternehmerTUM!

Now, we have full house in our office room: there are only three desks, but six people, six notebooks and five monitors. What a fun!

Have a good time, too!