Posts Tagged ‘amazon’

Paul Reijnierse is a passionated interaction designer, together with two friends he set up the design studio De Monsters. Through their work they saw a problem for managing the workflows and decision making during the design process. As they could not find an appropriated tool fulfilling their needs, they decided to create it by themselves. The result is a workflow management tool in the language of designers providing a completely new approach to organizing the creative process. But best you check it out by yourself. And if the interview is not enough for you, there is a great video on vimeo to demonstrate how the air based software works.

If you need new business cards, you normally have to talk to your designer, let him make a few layouts, then check his layouts and choose one or let him make some changes, and finally let it be printed. Same procedure if your address changes. That consumes already a lot of time and also money. Even more time and money it takes for other communication materials like flyers or presentations. But there is a new solution which will help you to get your print materials easier, faster and cheaper - that's MARVIA! It is co-founder Steven van Wel, who presents the business idea and who does want nothing less than conquering the world or at least an unbelievable huge amount of happy customers with his print-on-demand business. With www.getMARVIA.com you can create advertisements, business cards, product sheets, invites, folders and presentations - whatever you want or might need, without having to install expensive software and without caring about the storage of the layouts. You can create or upload design by yourself or you can buy templates for y cheap price. The interview was shot at AWS Start-Up Event in Amsterdam, there AWS Vice President Adam Selipsky and Amazon CTO Werner Vogels invited Start-Ups to learn from each other how to use the Amazon Web Services to accelerate their businesses by being part of the cloud.

This is the second interview with Mathys van Abbe. The first time he presented his startup mobypicture.com, a mobile photo distributer. His second startup called startpix.com is a online desktop application which visualizes all the links you collect. You can place that links wherever you want and you can change colors and sizes. So try it out and discover the Internet in a new visual and playful way! The interview was shot at the AWS Start-Up Event in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Touring around Europe Amazon Web Services illustrates how startups can use their services and offers a stage for presenting ideas and sharing experiences.

Peter Robinett is announcing the Mobile Dev Camp, a two day event on November 29 and 30 devoted to developing mobile applications for the iPhone, Android and Symbian platforms. The first day consists workshops, while the second day is devoted to building applications in the Hackathon. Everything you need to know about the Dev Camp can be found at www.mobiledevcamp.nl. And don't forget to post on their job board (www.mobiledevcamp.nl/job_board/) if you're looking to hire a developer. Sounds also like a great opportunity for non-Dutch to get to know to interesting people and maybe co-workers!

You know that problem, wherever you go and meet people, you have afterwards the problem to connect them to all kind of social networks and applications. That's there the mysterious "E" comes in. Renato Valdes Olmos developed with friends a service and a little tool which will do all that work for you. So finally time to relax, you will not loose any of your new great contacts anymore or they do not get rid of you anymore... ;-)

Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon.com explains cloud computing in almost one sentence. He tells how he found his way to Amazon. And as he does not like the future, he reflects about the past and credit cards... ;-) Amazon Web Services provides startups with most flexible hosting opportunities, sharing their rich experiences and cloud infrastructure.

If you do not know the Amazon Web Services yet, just listen to the introduction by Adam Selipsky, Vice President of Amazon Web Services. Over all that years Amazon became a specialist in cloud computing and is now sharing that knowledge by letting you appreciate their infrastructures. Additionally they've set up a start-up competition there just the finalist were announced competing for 100.000 US$. Stay tuned next year will be an other contest!