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openDesktop.org launches free job board November 11, 2008 Last week we launched a free job board on openDesktop.org, the network portal for open source and IT specialists around the world. The job board is completely free - both to those listing jobs and those looking for jobs. We wil finance the job board with advertising and sponsorships. openDesktop.org is the leading portal in a network of 30 open source websites with 110,000 registered users in 100 different countries and over 80 million page views per month. The job board is visible on all websites in the network, meaning a job listed on one, is automatically and immediately displayed on all the other sites in the network. The outstanding feature of the job board is its simplicity - jobs are listed with a few clicks and jobseekers search the available jobs per country and category. Other reasons why we expect it to turn into a strong recruitment tool: Jobseekers can easily present themselves as candidates, by uploading their resumes, while employers can look at resumes of candidates, examples of their work (uploaded applications) and the networks candidates belong to - all with just a few clicks on openDesktop.org. The USP of our job board, is that jobseekers are at the same time members of our global open source community, giving employers access to more than just resumes. Every day more than 100 newly-built and valuable applications and designs are uploaded to openDesktop.org, for others to download and use at no cost. Over time the job board might mutate into a "job and project board". We expect it to become a popular place for community members to outsource jobs, such as logo designs. Developers might also search for project members, or for experts to market newly-built applications. The board might even be used to search for business partners, or project financiers. In short, we hope it'll turn into a multi-purpose job board. Community members typically stay on the portal for an extraordinary long time: On average 6 million visitors view 80 million pages per month, for an average page view per visit of 13. The job board should push the average page views per visit even higher. To date the most popular activities on the network portal openDesktop.org have been searching and downloading new applications, participating in discussion groups and messaging members. Searching for jobs should become another popular activity in future. The job board is the first of a number of new features and tools we plan to launch on openDesktop.org in coming months.

New Office October 13, 2008 We moved in our new office last week. The new address is Rommelstrasse 9 in 70376 in Stuttgart. We love the bigger office and the nice atmosphere here. I will post fotos later.

Lots of Updates September 11, 2008 We havent blogged for a few weeks because we where very busy. A lot of interesting stuff is going on. The Akademy keynote presentation was a big success. My ideas where very well received. We release the open collaboration services spec and implemented the api on all of our websites. At the moment we are working together with Novell and other projects to implement our Social Desktop vision. A proof of concept implementation is already working. If you are interested in working with us please contact me. You find the draft 3 of the specification here and my keynote presentation here We have a new advertising partner for germany. Please contact Netpoint Media of you want to buy adspace for the german market. We have 8.5 Million page impressions per month from germany and over 60 million page impressions worldwide at the moment. We have two new colleagues here at hi v e 01. A big welcome to Nadine and Daniel. We are moving in a new office at October. We have more space and a nice atmosphere there. I will post fotos and the new address soon. We also launched a few new websites in the last few weeks. We have LinuxMint-Art.org a community for the popular Mint Linux Distribution, Frugalware-Art.org for Frugalware Linux and UIQ-Look.org a theming community for the UIQ Mobile Phone Userinterface. We upgraded our server cluster again with an additional 8 core machine. So we have enough hosting capacity for the holiday season.

Opening Keynote June 13, 2008 I will give the opening keynote at the KDE's Free Software Desktop Summit 2008. I will talk about the free software desktop in a web 2.0 world. Bringing web based social networks and desktop applications together. The Summit will take place from 9th to 15th August 2008 in the De Nayer Instituut, Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium. Please register if you want to visit one of the biggest free software conferences. I'm looking forward to see you there. Frank.

Update May 10, 2008 We released a relatively big update. New websites are GIMPStuff.org for GIMP, ScribusStuff.org for Scribus Users, InkscapeStuff.org for Inkscape, BlenderStuff.org for your favourite 3D Application (Blender) and LinuxMint-Art.org for the popular Linux Distribution. All Websites are part of the openDesktop.org Network. So you can use your existing User Account. By the way, we have now over 100000 registered Contributors. This is fantastic. I new feature is the friends newsfeed on the bottom of the homepage. It is an easy way to see what your friends are doing. You see for example if your friends are upload new content and other interesting stuff.

New websites April 2, 2008 We launched several new websites in the last few month. OpenTemplate.org is a new portal for document templates for openOffice.org. We are running this site in cooperation with our friends at OpenOffice.org. We are planing to integrate template upload and download directly into a further version of OpenOffice.org. We launched Android-Community.org. Android-Community.org will become an important portal and community for applications and support for the Google Android Mobile Platform in the future. Autofun.de is a new german community for car drivers. We also launched Inyamo.com. Inyamo is a new playground for our mobile activities.

New features April 12, 2008 We launched exiting new community features last month. The messaging is completely revised. Users can store their messages in folders and get faster message notifications. We also launched groups. Users can create public or private groups, exchange ideas or discuss different topics and invite friends. The last exiting new feature is microblogging. Users can tell their friends and the world what they are doing at the moment. Users seams to love the new features.

Innovative Navigation Concept February 16, 2008 We developed an innovative navigation concept for e-commerce sites. The idea is to provide users of fashion shops a more visual way to find the products and categories. The customers can browse and sort out the goods, reserve and compare them like in a regular store. We developed the idea, the concept and a dummy implementation for dmc digital media center GmbH.

First anniversary February 1, 2008 One year ago h i v e 01 was established. The first year was more sucessfull than expected. We launched 15 new community websites and doubled our userbase. Our Community Software got lots of great new features. New ASP Customers and partners are working with us and we reached our financial goals.

Visiting Google January 23, 2008 Last week we were invited by Google to Mountain View, California. We stayed for 3 days in the Googleplex and it was great. It is a very creative and impressive atmosphere and the people are great. Thank you to the guys from the Google Open Source Group.

major hosting center upgrade January 8, 2008 Our platforms are growing with an impressive speed and we also plan to launch exciting new platforms and services in the future. To keep up with the growth we did a major server upgrade. Now we have a lot more computing power and reliability. To assure a linear scalibility in the future we are now running a beta version of our upcoming product "bee cluster". Bee cluster enables us to divide our community system to several inexpensive and distributed server nodes. It scales linearly. This means that if we add more nodes to the cluster we get nearly all the performance for your application. We can add or remove cluster nodes to the bee cluster or modify the traffic routing without downtime

Mac OS X Community macapps.de December 28, 2007 We launched MacApps.de. MacApps.de is a german community and application directory for Mac OS X. You can show your favourite OS X application to other users and discuss tips and tricks with other users. We are very excited to provide this free website for the german Apple Community. MacApps.de

eyeOS-Apps.org launched November 20, 2007 eyeOS is an Open Source Platform designed to hold a wide variety of Web Applications over it. eyeOS was thought as a new definition of Operating System, where everything inside it can be accessed from everywhere. The developers of eyeOS asked us if we could help to build a community for 3rd party applications. Of course we can help. So we launched eyeOS-Apps.org today. eyeOS-Apps.org is a portal to share free applications using the eyeOS framework. eyeOS-Apps.org is part of our openDesktop.org network.

iPhone Community alles-iPhone.de November 9, 2007 Today the iPhone is launched in Germany. We think that the iPhone is a true revolutionary product. And just in time we started our new community portal for german iPhone users. You can share you favourite iPhone applications, upload and download artwork for the iPhone and discuss tips and tricks with other users. This is our first german community and we are very excited to provide this free website for the german iPhone fans. alles-iPhone.de

Java-Apps.org November 6, 2007 Several users requested a website for free Java Applications. It seems there is no good application directory for Java Apps. So we launched Java-Apps.org today. Java-Apps.org is a portal to share free applications using the Java. Java-Apps.org is part of our openDesktop.org network. Have fun.

7Lists is online October 11, 2007 Today 7Lists went online. 7Lists is a new german community where users can post their favorite list of different topics. Very cool idea. The site is run by our friends at FUF. h i v e 01 did the central project management and consulting in scalability, quality management and release management.

Happy birthday to Spreadshirt September 25, 2007 The famous t-shirt company is now 5 years old. Gratulations to Jana, Lukasz, Michael and Matthias for founding running this great and innovative company. We know Lukasz for several years now. He was our first advertising partner in 2002. And thank you for the great party. ;-)

Webservice Interface August 20, 2007 Last week we launched our public webservice interface. Developers of desktop applications or related websites can access all the content from our portals. See this news entry for details.

New Head Website July 22, 2007 Today we launched openDesktop.org. openDesktop.org is the new head of our website network. It brings the contents and users of our websites together. Users and contributors of a free desktop can exchange applications and artwork, help each other, discuss new ideas and get to know other people. It shouldn´t be important which desktop environment you prefer, which linux distribution you use or if you are a developer, an artist or a different contributor. It´s only important that you help to push the free desktop. We believe that together we can change the world and create a better desktop than the proprietary ones.

New Websites June 10, 2007 We launched three interesting new Community Sites. SUSE-Art.org is a portal to share artwork for the openSUSE Linux Distribution. We develop and run this site in cooperation with Novell Inc. It's always fun to work with you guys. Ubuntu-Art.org and Kubuntu-Art.org are two new artwork communities for the Ubuntu and the Kubuntu Distribution. Ubuntu is getting steam since a few month. Now, you can order a new PC together with Ubuntu instead of Windows from Dell. Very cool! We did this communities in cooperation with Canonical Ltd.

Travel and Traffic May 18, 2007 Sorry for the lack of updates in the last few weeks. We did a lot of travel all over Europe in the last month. Visiting 2 conferences and a new customer. In the meantime our platforms reached the milestone of 50 million page impressions per month. Wow!

New ASP Customer April 5, 2007 Today two new platforms went online. we created Qt-Apps.org and Qt-Prop.org for our newest customer Trolltech. Software developers can publish, announce and showcase all software written with the Qt toolkit. We are happy about Trolltech having chosen our software platform and our services to build and run this community platform.

Office March 1, 2007 We moved into our new office in the Stuttgart West. Now we have plenty of room and a creative atmosphere. The big terrace on the roof is a big plus in the summer. ;-) I will post pictures soon. Google Map

New Website January 5, 2007 Our new website is finally online. Not everything is in place yet but we will improve the site in the next weeks. Stay tuned for more cool features in the future. ;-)

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