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New Wave of Service Integration

August 14th, 2009

50 Services

We’re very happy to announce that from today, E offers support for over 50 online services. We added a few last week, and with the ones included today, we support a total of 52 services. The ones integrated today:

Hulu
Watch your favorite videos right from your browser, anytime, for free. With full episodes of TV shows both current and classic, full-length movies, web originals, and clips of just about everything, Hulu is the place to watch and enjoy premium videos from the biggest names in entertainment.

Google Profiles
What do people see when they find you online? You can control how you appear in Google by creating a personal profile… …and people will see it on their results page when they do web searches for your name.

Google Reader
Google Reader lets you subscribe to your favorite websites so new content comes to you when it’s posted. Reader keeps track of which things you’ve read so that when you only see unread items when you come back. If there’s a dark blue border around an item, Reader is marking that item as read.

Google Talk
See real-time availability and status of friends online, send instant text messages, easily go from text to voice chat, chat right from your desktop or from Gmail.

Identi.ca
A micro-blogging service based on the Free Software Laconica tool.

Qik
Qik enables you to share your moments live with your friends, family and the world—right from your mobile phone!

Readernaut
Share your reading experience by writing notes, tracking progress, and meeting fellow readers.

TipSpot
TipSpot is an event calendar for your computer and mobile – it gives you a personal overview of all the action around town. tipSpot is smart and takes into account what you and your friends are into. You see where your friends will be going and which events they recommend.

TripIt
Organize trip details into one master online itinerary — even if arrangements are booked at multiple travel sites. Automatically include maps, directions and weather in their master itinerary. Have the option to book restaurants, theatre tickets, activities and more right from within the online itinerary. Safely access travel plans online, share them, check-in for flights, or print an itinerary

Twones
Twones is a music service and a new way to store, organize, find & share music played all over the web (i.e. YouTube, Myspace, Last.fm, Hypemachine, Favtape, Blogs and many more) or on your computer (i.e. iTunes) to one single point of access. Twones ties all music and music services together and lets you share your taste with others in the most direct way.

Ustream
Ustream.TV is the live interactive video broadcast platform that enables anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size. In less than two minutes, anyone can become a broadcaster by creating their own channel on Ustream or by broadcasting through their own site, empowering them to engage with their audience and further build their brand.

Virb
Virb is a community and a place for you to contribute the stuff that interests you. Virb is your social network, your photography portfolio and your band’s website. Virb is the collection of all that you share online, from what you find to what you create.

Yahoo! Messenger
Yahoo! Messenger is a free product that makes it easy and fun to communicate with friends and family around the world. Enjoy real-time text chats with friends, make free PC-to-PC voice calls, send SMS messages from your PC, plus share photos and files instantly.

Update your cards now!

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Small Update, New Services!

August 6th, 2009

Service Update

Today’s update is all about fellow startups, more microblogging and gorgeous designer portfolios. We’re announcing support for the Behance network, Plurk, Tupalo and Foursquare!

The Behance Network is a gorgeous collection of portfolios by designers, illustrators, typographers, artists and more. Check out the gorgeous work by Momkai for example. Starting today professional creatives can add their Behance portfolio to their cards.

Plurk is a social journal for your life. We already have Twitter integration, and as we’re open to all, Plurk fits in just as well. Add your horizontal lifestream to your cards now!

Tupalo is a social yellow pages community from Vienna. The guys from Tupalo contacted us directly about integrating Tupalo with E, and we couldn’t respond without giving them some fellow startup-loving. Plus, we’re Eurotrash ourselves, so we just couldn’t refuse especially since they’re also launching support for the Netherlands. Go add Tupalo to your cards now!

Last but not least, Foursquare. This booming company founded by Naveen and Dennis from Dodgeball is getting awesome traction, and I just can’t deny that we’re big fans of Foursquare at E HQ. If you’re not familiar with Foursquare: it’s a location-based game/social network around venues and going out. A service built around pure fun. So after you finish your business meetings with E card transactions, go out and do some Foursquaring.

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Update Your Cards!

July 13th, 2009

Lots happening here at My Name is E. We decided to push out support for some of our favourite online services and networks today. So I’m happy to announce that we’ve added support for the following services:

• deviantART
• FriendFeed
• MobyPicture
• Picasa
• SlideShare
• Soundcloud
• Wakoopa

We’re working out some OAuth quirks which may require a smaller update later this week, to give some additional ‘auto-friending’ support to the integrated services. Stay tuned for that.

In the meantime, enjoy the update and go update your cards! I already updated mine.

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Added Support for Facebook Vanity Profiles.

June 15th, 2009

We now support the new Facebook username URL format. Go update your cards!

http://www.facebook.com/username>

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Big Invisible Changes
June 10th, 2009

Over the past couple of weeks the team has been altering and rewriting part of E’s architecture. Now, to avoid too much lightsabery geektalk, you probably won’t notice any of the changes we’ve made to the service. But I’ll walk you through it anyway. Platform scalability is extremely important for growing companies like us, and we really like to think of ourselves as a platform, not a specific product. The changes we’ve made allow E to scale more rapidly, and make sure that future API connections get handled more effectively (think iPhone app, mass Connector release, developer API keys). The update was pushed out today, so if you are experiencing any problems or noteworthy changes in user experience, please let us know on Get Satisfaction!

After these backend changes we’ll make sure you’ll actually get an update where you’ll notice stuff has changed/added.

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Xing Improvement
May 27th, 2009

We’ve had a couple of requests for better Xing integration on Get Satisfaction. We just pushed out an update which should fix most of the problems there have been with integrating Xing with your cards. If any problems persist, drop us a line on Twitter or Get Satisfaction.

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Next ‘09 Presentation in Awesome HD
May 19th, 2009

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

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New Features at Next ‘09
May 6th, 2009

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.

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The aftermath: Users, users, users and updates!
April 21st, 2009

It’s been a couple of days since we went live at The Next Web Conference 2009, time for a good update. First of all we’d like to welcome the massive load of new users that came in (thank you, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, The Next Web Blog, Nu.nl and Twitter): Hi there! We hope you like what we’ve come up with so far and we encourage you to leave feedback and feature suggestions so we can shape this service together, as a community.

Second, a couple of updates. You can now add your XING account to E as well. It’s available in your Services panel.

Also, you can disable indexing by search engines (like Google or Yahoo) so that your public card won’t show up in search results. We encourage you to make use of the Public Card (lots of cool new features coming based around this), but make sure that you’re aware of which information you’re sharing online.

iPhone users are now able to add a note to their recently received cards. After a successful connection, just tap “Add a Note”.

Just tap the note to start typing. We’ll be adding this feature to m.mynameise.com shortly as well.

These notes will be synchronised with the desktop version of E. Just go to your Contacts, select a contact and click on their note. Edit if you like.

Stay tuned for more updates and keep spreading the word!

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