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Two hiogi mobile applications participated in the Netbiscuits Mobile Web Developer Contest and won a price in Boston today. hiogi’s “ask-a-question-solution” (http://ask.hiogi.com) enables anybody to ask free questions from the mobile phone while traveling and the hiogi ticker (http://ticker.hiogi.com) keeps people informed about real-time questions. Possibly they will soon be realized as biscuits who are availbe for other mobile sites.

Millions of Americans already use text for answer services and now hiogi enters the market with a free and open community that answers any mobile question. hiogi is a technology leader in mobile Q&A solutions and offers various free channels to post a question or to interact with the community. Besides text messaging the hiogis can use an iPhone application, various mobile portals, twitter, email from PDAs. Answers are being individually researched by the web 2.0 community in exiting answer battles. Each question is being ranked with 2 to 5 ogi-coins depending on the difficulty and each coin resembles a chance for the hiogi who provided the best answer to win various prices by the end of each month.

This is how it works: Simply register for free on the website www.hiogi.com or on the mobile portal http://m.hiogi.com and start asking questions about sport scores, traffic updates, hotel addresses, weather forecasts or simply ask for a local tip, a good advice or a recipe.

hiogi decided to start building further mobile portals and applications based on netbiscuits in order to deliver our content in an optimized way to thousands of different mobile devices. We also entered the netbiscuit developer competition with a question widget (http://ask.hiogi.com) that other developers will hopefully soon be able to integrate into their websites as an entry point to the hiogi mobile portal. Also, our mobile ticker (http://ticker.hiogi.com) shows the latest five hiogi questions. The ticker informs you about what others want to know and what`s going on in the community.

It is really easy! Simply enter m.hiogi.com or ask.hiogi.com into your mobile browser, enter a question and register for free. Or you can use text messages via Twitter to ask a question:

In case you are a blackberry or PDA user, you can email questions to the community by sending your mobile phone number and question in the subject line to ask@hiogi.com like this: 001123456789 What is the weather forecast for NY tomorrow?

For more information check out www.hiogi.com/mobile/ or got to our FAQs.

Hi, we rolled out a new release:

This is new:

• You can now directly see and click on the comments even if the question is not answered yet.

• We show you the source (SMS, Email, WAP, iPhone).

• Within the answer box we now show you all the comments.

We will present our new hiogi iphone application on the iPhone Developer Conference and also give a lecture. Until end of october you receive a rebate, if you register here:

Dear hiogis,

time flew by and it is long ago that we introduced ourselves…

My name is Stefie and I am the community manager also responsible for new concepts that are beneficiary for the community. I am your contact person regarding the forum and on the plattform. My nickname is “hiogi-Stefie“.

My name is Ana and I work in graphics, so I am responsible for all the “superficial” stuff.

Hello, I am Nicole, mother of the ogis and I support the team in all design tasks.

My name is Martin and I am diving into the code. Björn calls me chief developer. Blame me for bugs.

My name is Benedikt and I am doing an apprenticeship at hiogi working on new concepts, layout and marketing.

Nnnnn guuude, my name is Chris and as co-founder and CTO I am joggling with the bits und bytes of hiogi on a daily basis, so that they reach you properly. I love working in this team and for this community!

Hi, my name is Björn and i had the whole idea of hiogi while driving home from my former job at eBay. I am working on concepts, legal stuff, administration, finances, marketing and I also brought my table soccer to the office in order to kick some butt.

Check out the insider tipps and answers for many German and European cities on our new GoogleMaps-MashUp. Further countries coming soon… You will also find the hiogis of the region. Simply click on the hiogis tab next to the question of a selected city.  www.hiogi.com/pages/gMap.

You can also integrate the map within your website or blog if you have 480×400px of free space. Here is the code:

<iframe src=http://www.44044.com/pages/gMap/iframed style=border:0 width=400 height=400 frameborder=0 scrolling=auto></iframe>

In case you are not satisfied with the answer simply go to http://m.hiogi.com, log in and give the answer a negative rating plus leave a comment why you are not happy with the answer. The question will be activated again and you will receive a better answer shortly.