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We just launched our new web application for the iPhone or iPod touch. Simply enter http://iphone.hiogi.com into your safari browser and click on the plus icon to add hiogi as a bookmark to your home screen!

You can instantly ask free questions, get insider tips and advice or browse through our open archive with thousands of interesting questions and answers.

You will be amazed about all the stuff you didn’t know!

New functions inlude the instant feedback functionality, a new watchlist feature, detailed profile and ranking pages plus the leave a comment option in order to discuss the topics of interest.

Here are the favorite topics of our hiogi members:

* the best restaurants in town or romantic places
* directions or public transportation schedules
* concerts or parties on the weekend
* opening hours, addresses or telephone numbers of local stores
* sports results and ticket prices of the favorite team
* product reviews or price comparisons
* Wikipedia summaries

hiogi button on home screen:

home screen with latest activities / answers and questions:

Add hiogi to your home screen:

Our community needs to grow in order for all of us to best enjoy the answer battles and in order to receive timely answers while traveling. Therefore we will give away a new iPod touch every week to the hiogi who invited the most people. Simply go to www.hiogi.com/webteam and participate in our webteam special by using the automated invitation options directly from your webmailer or online contact list. You can also forward your individual invitation link to your friends by adding your NICKNAME to this URL:

http://www.hiogi.com/users/register/NICKNAME

Every new hiogi who used this link or who added you as the hiogi member that recommended the site will be counted!

We wish you the best.

Your hiogi team!

You can follow the hiogi-team and our company news on twitter: http://twitter.com/hiogi

If you want to follow all the international questions that are being ask to the hiogi community, please follow the ticker here: http://twitter.com/hiogi_ticker

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 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