October 2009
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New Ocean Release!
We have so many great news for you that we don’t even know where to start! We have LAUNCHED Minsh Alpha Version 3!!!!! Your minds will be blown away when you see all the new features this version offers! Time to have fun on http://minsh.net ! If you’re not swimming yet, grab your Twitter account and send a message to @minshdotnet, we’ll be happy to create a fish for you :))...
It's getting colorful in here!
Very very soon :))
More fish, more bubble, more interaction!
Next release is almost ready! Are you ready to dive and apply ink clouds to @britneyspears?
August 2009
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Twitter Outage
As of today Twitter is still recovering from the denial-of-service attack. It is still very difficult to login on Minsh. We hope everything will be back working normally this week-end.
July 2009
4 posts
What's new this week?
Thanks to your feedback we’ve been able to fix a lot of bugs this week! Your help is very valuable to us guys! Thanks for your patience also ;-)
Among many fixes:
Keyboard problems when typing tweets are solved,
Better error handling and notification when you send tweets and DMs,
We added explanation tooltips on all the buttons of the UI of the widget.
At the same time as bug fixing the...
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New features today and first tutorial video!
Hi everybominsh!
Today we have just put online an improved version of Minsh with new features:
swim more easily around the fish with arrows,
send @replies, direct messages and retweets in only one click!
For more info, watch the tutorial below ;)
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Help! Minsh Tutorial
We have just released Minsh Alpha 2 with a new interface and new features! Let’s have look at these functionalities together.
First of all, once you are logged in Minsh, you can see your fish! Below an example illustrating… me: minshow!
1) Update your Twitter status: if I want to update my Twitter status, I can click anytime on the bubble button at the top left of the ocean.
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Entering Alpha 2 Phase!
Dear Minsh friends,
we’re entering a new phase this week: Alpha 2! Yesterday on July 13th we launched a new version of Minsh and throughout this week 1000 new fish will get born!
What’s new?
We’re now using the Twitter OAUTH login, it’s safer!
An action news feed that gets udpdated in real-time! Now you get to know who’s clicking on your fish and who’s...
June 2009
3 posts
Almost in the Twitter trending topic :)
Today Minsh is featured in the excellent blog Mashable: 6 Gorgeous Twitter Visualizations. This article has briefly appeared on the trending topics of Twitter as “Gorgeous Twitter”. The funny thing is that more tweeple are asking about what is a Gorgeous Twitter than actually retweeting the article ;-)
We've venture kicked!
Very good news for Minsh! On the one hand, Minsh is on its way to add great customization and interaction features, and on the other hand, we have just successfully passed the 3rd and last phase of venture kick!
Venture Kick is a swiss competition for startups that can really help you seed fund your startup! It spreads over 3 phases and only nine months separate the first phase (business idea)...
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Last week was buzzy and this one is busy!
Here, in Palo Alto Switzerland, we’re all excited and busy working on the next release of Minsh. At the same time it’s very encouraging to see some buzz around Minsh coming from various places :)) It’s very cool to see that the Minsh virus is international ;-) All this is transforming into more people following the @minshdotnet account to get a fish on July 13th! Woohoo :)) Here...
May 2009
8 posts
Something is missing in the Twitterverse
Though there are many Twitter applications in the Twitterverse, there is a kind of application that is still missing: social worlds! I’m happy to announce you that we’re intending to add a new tentacle on the Twitterverse with Minsh :))
Alpha 2 version of Minsh will be released on July 13th with plenty of exciting new features. We can’t wait to show you everything! Stay tuned...
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Minsh in Infosthetics
Infosthetics, a leading design & information visualization blog, has covered Minsh. I can only recommend you to have a look at this excellent blog!
Minsh: the Tweetsphere as an Underwater Virtual World [May 29 2009]
Thank you Andrew!
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Our first booth at Venture Ideas @ epfl
Here are some pictures of the first booth we have done at Venture Ideas @ epfl. Along with the presentation of Poken, Basisnote, Neil Rimer and the 2min pitches of the 2009 Venture Leaders, we have had the opportunity to present Minsh and talk about our adVenture over the last 2 years in front of a crowd of more than 100 people!
During the breaks, we had fantastic feedback, networking and fun!
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Minsh hits the virtual world and social game blogs
We’re out of the water! Minsh hits the virtual world and social game blogs!
RaphKoster.com: Blerp & Minsh: layering the web [May 13, 2009] VirtualWorldNews: Minsh Brings Fish, Virtual World To Twitter [May 13, 2009] InsideSocialGames: Minsh Layering an Undersea Virtual World on top of Twitter [May 26, 2009]
Thank you @raphkoster, @seilerj, Christopher Mack for covering us !
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How Does it Work?
Are you one of the lucky fish? :)) Welcome on Minsh Alpha! So, what can you do once you are there?
Here is a small tutorial on how to use the first Minsh features:
1) Update your Twitter status: click on the bubble button on the top left of the ocean.
2) Reply to another fish: click on the “@” reply button on its bubble.
3) Look for another fish: enter the Twitter username...
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About Minsh in French
Salut à toi, ami francophone!
Tu te sens abandonné dans l’environnement Minsh en anglais? Voici quelques infos sympas à te mettre sous la dent pour apaiser ta frustration en attendant la version française de Minsh! :-)
SwissInfo:Le réseau où vous serez comme un poisson dans l’eau Metaverse3D: Minsh transforme Twitter en monde virtuel WangXiang: Minsh : un Twitter immersif au...
The Community !!!
As you probably know we just alpha launched, wooohoooo, that’s really a blast and also a bit stressful ;-)) With this release we want to build the core community of Minsh to get feedback and to make something that people enjoy !
The amazing thing is the instant feedback we get on Twitter ! That helps a lot thank you :)) And to see that people like the concept is very...
April 2009
5 posts
Laaauuunchiiiiiing Alpha!!!
Hello Minsh friends and supporters!
How are you doing today? Over here, we’ve got some fantastic news for you:
We have lauuuuuuunched the private alpha release TODAY!
If you want to be part of the alpha tester community, it’s very simple: create a Twitter account (if you don’t have it yet) and start following the user named: @minshdotnet. We’ll then be able to breed a...
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A great article about Minsh on swissinfo.org!
A few weeks ago, the Minsh team met with Justin Häne (@justinhane), a great journalist working at Swissinfo. Justin interviewed us about Minsh and we were more than happy to answer all his questions. The article is now out and the best part is: it is available in french, german, english, italian, spanish, japanese and arabic! A big hurray for Minsh! Now the fish and soon the stars! Thank you...
Announcing Alpha !!
We’re very happy to announce that we’ll be launching Minsh in closed alpha on the morning of April 30th (Switzerland time, it means it will be during night in San Francisco).
If you’re one of the lucky people who have been selected to first try it out, you’ll be able to use a very original Twitter client to tell the world “what are you minshing ?”
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Innovate!Europe workshop in Bern
On monday March 31st 09, I’ve been sent off to Bern in order to present Minsh at innovate!Europe’s workshop. Innovate!Europe is a contest organized for european technology, media, and telecom startups. The winner in the end gets a spot to spend 3 months in Guidewire Group’s studio program in the silicon valley this summer!
The atmosphere in Bern was great, thanks to the analysts...
March 2009
5 posts
Web Monday Zurich @ Amazee's Office
Yesterday night, Sergio, Thierry and I, we went to the Web Monday @ Amazee office in the TechnoPark of Zurich. We met a lot of very cool internet people and the ambiance was great ! Dania gave us the opportunity to present Minsh, and a pre-alpha live demo still with some glitches though ;-) We received enthusiastic feedback that were really encouraging :))
Here are some cool online...
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Team supplies have arrived!
It’s very helpful to have food supplies at hand in creative and debugging times. So, last week we went to buy some supplies for the team ! Mainly a lot of M&M’s, big chocolate easter bunnies, more chocolate, candies, … We thought that bringing some bread, nuts, almond, apples and orange juice would also help but maybe in a more healthy way ;-))
Speaking of food, we...
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Minsh in Atelier.fr
Thank you @marielaforge for the great article in Atelier.fr :)) [in french] The article has generated conversation on Twitter tonight and positive one ! That’s really encouraging us to work hard for the April launch.
Here is the link to the article.
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Boston roundtable
Coming back from the Silicon Valley, Jonathan and I have taken the time to stop at Boston, a beautiful city of red bricks and snow (it was February, indeed).
Thanks to Pascal Marmier, Thomas Bühler, and André Albrecht, a roundtable was organized at Swissnex Boston on February 26th:
virtual worlds and social networks: what’s next?
This roundtable gathered several very interesting people...
February 2009
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Silicon Valley: best trip ever
I think we have learned as much about networking the place in 1.5 weeks in the Valley than in 1 year in Switzerland. Ok, this week was really focused: meeting as many people as possible and getting as much feedback as possible on Minsh ! Here are some thoughts about the trip.
Things just happen. It’s the land where things happen … or not ! And you know it very fast. For...
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Stickers have arrived !!
You can see more cool pictures on the Minsh facebook group !
January 2009
1 post
Start of the beginning
Hi guys, i’m installing a tumblr blog for minsh. It’s funny to imagine that nobody will read this post til sometimes, maybe 2 months ? Maybe a bit earlier :))