E for iPhone

The first version of our iPhone app has been available for free for a couple of weeks now on the iTunes Store. E for iPhone allows you to exchange your cards from iPhone to iPhone (or iPod touch) with a flick of the wrist.

It’s integrated with your iPhone contacts, so all the new people you meet stay local and in the cloud. Is the person in front of you not on E? No worries. E for iPhone allows you to send your card via email for posterior connections (just tap ‘Other phone’).

It’s gained a lot of popularity here in the Netherlands, where we’re based, but the fastest growing audience comes from Japan. To our surprise, since localizations are planned for later this year.

Spread the word and download E for iPhone!

Over 50 services supported

We’ve added several waves of support for new services to add to your cards. We’ve added over 50 new services, distributed over 4 categories: Social Networking, Media, Instant Messaging and Gaming. Go update your cards now.

We’ll be adding many new services in the near future, and if you want to have a say about which ones we should integrate next, please leave some suggestions on our Get Satisfaction.

E for Android

We’re happy to announce that the E for Android app is well on its way. While we can’t disclose a release date yet, we can announce that E for Android sports many features not yet available on iPhone, including a revamp of the user interface.

You be able to ‘flick’ your cards from Android to Android, or Android to iPhone, as well as the basic functionality that E for iPhone supports. These include sending cards via email, address book integration as well as the built-in browser to view services within the application.

We’ll be presenting E for Android next week at the PICNIC ‘09 conference.

E for Everybody

We need you to help us expand as fast and steady as possible. Since we’ve introduced the Public Card, people have been linking it on their blogs through our widgets, in their email footers and bios on Twitter.

That’s why we introduced our short URL service, eee.am. Short, easy to remember and very microblog friendly.

Use your Public Card to list all the contact information and online identities you want to share online, publicly, and help us by linking to your Public Card! Set your Twitter website to http://eee.am/username to make sure people get the right information.

Help us win!

We’re a starting company and need all the help from you to make a difference. We’re very proud to have entered the final round of the Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2009 competition. But we need your vote. Please vote for us here!

Gundam

We’re also happy to mention that we’ve started working on the next big version of E, codenamed “Gundam”. We’ll be releasing a minor update (new features, don’t worry!) next week at PICNIC, but Gundam will require some additional time to finish as we’re implementing some compelling new features. Stay tuned!

“US companies often know little about the European startup environment and the opportunities to be found there. Panelists will share both the highs and lows of their startup lives and will answer questions regarding funding opportunities, cultural idiosyncrasies, legislation and differences between Europe and America.”

Spare this panel some votes and you’ll be seeing yours truly, plus – Robert Gaal from Wakoopa (Netherlands), Alexander Ljung from Soundcloud (Germany), Bruno Pedro from Tarpipe (Portugal), Stefan Fountain from Soocial (Netherlands), Ville Vesterinen from ArcticStartup (Finland) and Matt Biddulph of Dopplr (UK). Moderated by Peter Robinett (USA).

Vote here!

We’re proud to announce that we have entered the finals of the Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2009 competition. The finals will be on September 25th during the PICNIC Conference in Amsterdam. We wish our fellow finalists the best of luck! Dutch press release after the break.

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Based in NYC and eager to check out some Connectors, the upcoming iPhone app or just meet up for a chat? We’ll be speaking at PICNIC NYC, along with some mighty interesting speakers. Visit PICNIC NYC for more information.

Sevenload had a great HD setup filming all of the conference’s presentations. Here’s our Next ‘09 presentation is awesome steady high definition.

The lovely Viktoria Trosien interviewed yours truly one year after the Amsterdam AWS event at Next 09 in Hamburg. It was a fun, in depth interview about specifics of our product, future roadmap and our opinion about competitors. Go check it out!

Thanks to iFranz.tv

Today we’re presenting E at the Next ‘09 conference in Hamburg, Germany. And what good would conferences be without product announcements? Today we introduce the latest build of the E webservice to you, codenamed Marvin. Apart from minor bugfixes supplied to us by our lovely community, we have a couple of unique features ready for you.

Today is not about hardware, but how E will behave on the web. One of our most popular features right now is the Public Card. Your Public Card is basically one of your cards you can make public, which means you get a mynameise.com/yourname url where you can list the contact information you’d like to share, as well as your social networking profiles. You can customize it by adding a HD background.

One of the most popular feature requests was to be able to connect online, not just in real life, through the Public Card. We’ve added that functionality. Whenever you visit a Public Card now, you’ll see a lovely shiny button in the top right which will allow you to send a connection request. Select one of your own cards to share, and wait for the other to accept. The receiving party can also select a different card upon receiving the connection request.

The second new feature we’re announcing is also based on the Public Card, and shows you the first moves into our upcoming API. Want to share your public card on your site or blog? You can. You’ll be able to export your public card into a widget of your preferred size. The Public Card widget comes in the sizes of small, medium, large and megatron. You can download these as Wordpress plugins, or just embed the code on your website. It will always stay up to date.

Us here at E hope you’ll enjoy these new features and perhaps you’ll be able to draw some conclusions about what kind of platform we want to be. Just a little reminder: Sharing your cards is just the beginning. We have a lot of cool stuff coming up.

Come look for us at CES in Las Vegas 2009. Hanging around the Sands Expo and Convention Center, you will probably catch us at the Innovations Showcase.