hiogi has only been participating in the founders marketplace of the Financial Times Germany for a couple of days and many of you have already left ratings and comments für hiogi. Thanks so much! Now the FTD has made us the founder of the week. We are very happy and thankful about this reward.
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Today we launched a new feature that enables you to ask questions without showing your nickname. Simply text the additional keyword “hide” in your twitter sms to hiogi like this:
d hiogi hide YOURQUESTION
Or you can change the default settings, so that all your questions are set to “anonymous”. If you have changed the default from “visible” to “anonymous” and you do want to text a question signed with your hiogi nickname include “show” as an additional keyword like this:
d hiogi show YOURQUESTION
The keywords HIDE or SHOW also work in front of a WAP question.
Of course you can leave everything as it is and keep on sending questions as you have done before. Just make sure your nickname ist not your real name, so that no one knows what you want to know from the hiogi community.
Yesterday night Chris and I spent a fabulous evening on the eco Gala celebrating our eco Internet Award Mobile 2008. About 250 companies applied for this well-known award. The jury highlighted our modular, scalable and multilingual technology that enables any company to use hiogi as a white-label or partner solution. Also, it was mentioned that the internet is flooded by information and that it will be hard for mobile phone users to find relevant information in the future. The hiogi community compresses all this knowledge into 140 digits.
Check out the pics from yesterday.
Hello hiogis, we had a very good networking night yesterday at the big TechCrunch Meetup in Berlin. Even start-ups and investors from Hamburg, Munich, Cologne and other cities in Germany showed up and it was very interesting to exchange experiences. Of course we were also excited to meet Mike Butcher from TechCrunch UK.
Here are some pictures:
For the TechCrunch event we are offering any international mobile phone owners a special: Ask hiogi anything you need to know for free. Text your questions to this “secret” SMS number: +49 176 888 66 000
The hiogi-Community is waiting for your challenging questions! What do you need to know? Travel tipps, restaurant adresses, taxi numbers, insider tipps, soccer scores, world records, wikipedia infos, compressed google search results, personal advice, philosophical answers.everywhere. 
You can now aks anything via Twitter SMS once you have registered for free and respond instantly to the answer by a hiogi community member by replying with your rating and feedback comment. This is how it works:
Here are the Twitter SMS numbers, in case you did not know them. We recommend you save the appropriate number on your mobile phone:
Or you can use our mobile portal or our iPhone page to ask questions and to manage your hiogi account.
Do you want to stay informed about the questions that reach hiogi via Twitter? No problem. Simply follow hiogi_ticker. And do not forget to send your own questions via Twitter SMS to our main account hiogi
Dear hiogis,
we built a new hiogi ticker for you that now runs as a Yahoo! Widget. Download the platform independent widget and stay informed in real-time about any new question that reaches both the English-speaking hiogi.com site or the German site. New questions will be shown on the lower right screen corner as a bubble and you can directly click any interesting question.
This is how it works:
1. Download Yahoo! Widgets. More Infos… or choose one of these two download links:
2. Download this file: hiogi_en.widget
3. Start Yahoo! Widgets and choose “Open Widget…” from the menue and choose the file “hiogi_en.widget” from where you saved it. Voilá!
Screenshot: (click to enlarge)
You can easily increase your chances of winning one of our cool monthly prices by inviting your friends to hiogi. You will receive 10 ogi-coins for every new hiogi member. Simply send them an invitation from our site or let them know to enter your username as the one who recommende the site during the registration flow.
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hiogi is a project sponsor of betterplace.org and now donated another 120 EUR to a project in Leipzig after finishing one month of charity HELP SMS questions, where every German hiogi user would donate the margin of the 39 Cent SMS question to the 44044. The money will be used to purchase books and learning equipment for poor children of that region. hiogi already supported the betterplace foundation with a 500 EUR donation before.
More about the betterplace project.
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