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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.

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.

Hi guys,

we launched a new forum, so that you can discuss anything you like, exchange ideas, funny questions or let us know about possible improvements.

Cheers

your hiogi-team

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.

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:

• Positive rating: send a SMS d hiogi + YourComment
• Neutral rating: send a SMS d hiogi ~ YourComment
• Negative rating: send a SMS d hiogi - YourComment

Here are the Twitter SMS numbers, in case you did not know them. We recommend you save the appropriate number on your mobile phone:

• +44 7624801423 (UK & global!)
• 40404 (US)
• 21212 (Canada)

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:

Windows or Mac

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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Hello world,

hiogi is the world’s first knowledge-community that answers any mobile question and we launched our English-speaking rest-of-the-world-site under www.hiogi.com yesterday night. Now everybody can register with hiogi for free and participate in the most innovative wireless knowledge exchange, no matter if you are from the US, UK, AT, CH, FR, IT, ES or anywhere else…

For international hiogis we offer the following ways of asking a question while you are travelling and/or while you are away from your PC:

• Twitter-SMS: Please register and enter your twitter name in your settings in my hiogi and follow ‘hiogi’ on Twitter. You can then use the following Twitter SMS numbers to send in your questions via text message: +44 7624801423 (Global!) or 40404 (US) or 21212 (Canada).
• Mobile portal: Please register and enter mobile.hiogi.com in your mobile browser. You can ask questions under the ‘my hiogi’-tab.
• iPhone / iPod touch: Please register and enter iphone.hiogi.com in your safari browser.
• Email/PDA: Please register and send us an email to ask@hiogi.com from your PDA by entering your telephone number plus your question in the subject line.

Currently the questions, on both the German and English-speaking hiogi-site, are still being mixed, but we will change this as soon as it gets too confusing. Also for the time being, we offer monthly prices, like hotel or gift certificates that can only be redeemed here in Germany, but we will also change this in the future.

We welcome hiogis with any nationalities and any wireless question in English you might have. “I help you today and you help me tomorrow” that is the principle of our community. Only hiogis can send you insider-tipps, experiences, compressed search-results and infinite knowledge about any topic directly to your mobile phone.

Your hiogi team