The Archives
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08.11.08Brainiac Number 10,000 Arrives!Just the other day our 10,000th user arrived on the Secondbrain scene, and we could not have hand picked a better community addition. To highlight this milestone, we also awarded Nico Del Castillo with a $100 Amazon gift certificate too. Nico responded with a very nice email in which he included a short iteration of exactly how he became the auspicious number 10,000. Evidently, Nico works from withing social media and was following some wildfire tools* when he ran across the little SB icon. Clicking more out of curiosity than anything else, Nico was excited to see that SB is an ...
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07.25.08Secondbrain’s Macbook Air WinnerThe Secondbrain contest ended a couple of weeks ago and already announced the winners on the contest page. We think it’s time you know them better, to learn their success stories and to show you that they are real people, with real lives, hobbies and dedicated friends. Dedicated friends? Well… yes! We must acknowledge those friends who made it possible for The Dude Dean to become the Secondbrain Macbook Air contest winner. Without his armies of followers, the Dude Dean would probably be less successful. Of course, Secondbrain is more than a social network, but the power of the community is ...
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07.04.08The Top Secondbrainers Prevail!After a week of intense voting and friendly competition, the Top Secondbrainers have been decided by you – the Secondbrain community. All ten finalists are winners of course, but the super cool Macbook Air goes to none other than the self proclaimed Greatest Living American - The Dude Dean. It was a close race between Dean, CompWoman and Katti all the way, and all three won some super cool prizes. The other ten finalists won Amazon gift certificates and placed in the contest in the following order from 4th to 10th place. JK, HerrGraff, Bs, Diptychal, Thlom, Cpeckens and Inni. You guys ...
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07.01.08Secondbrains Vie For The Title – Best Brainiac!Now that the release of Beta 2.0 is out, the contest for all those great prizes is winding to a close too. So many users have added so much great content and we are so proud to be able to reward some of you with these tokens of our appreciation. The Macbook Air is of course the most sought after prize and we thought we would give everyone an update on who is ahead for the big win. In other news, you guys might notice that the voting aspect of the contest is powered by the score widget from JS-Kit. Secondbrain ...
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06.12.08It’s Official: Secondbrain Beta 2.0 Is LiveThe moment we’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived: Secondbrain Beta 2.0 is live. For all you users who have been a part of the Secondbrain family since the launch of the MacBook Air contest the roadmap from Beta 1.0 to Beta 2.0 has been smooth. We added new services, we fixed some bugs, but most importantly we focused on making Secondbrain a real family and the logical destination for All Your Content. Today, Beta 2.0 comes with new features that will make Secondbrain the first complete content aggregator – boomarking and social networking service on the Web: Next/previous navigation of content ...
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06.04.08Secondbrainiacs In Hot PursuitWith our contest humming along and the Beta 2.0 release just around the corner, we wanted to recognize pursuit some of the contest leaders. We started the contest really wanting to reward all the great users on Secondbrain and also to get people to try our platform. Making the world's largets online content library is not an easy task after all. Ultimately, the community is empowered and able to make Secondbrain whatever they desite it to be, and judging from some of the recently added collections - we are doing great. So, for those of you wondering where the MacbookAir is ...
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05.14.08Presenting SecondbrainLast week, we did three presentations about Secondbrain at various venues in Oslo, Norway. It was great to come out of the office and start talking about ourselves again. First Tuesday First out was the First Tuesday event at Rockefeller in Oslo - just a three minute lightning talk - but a great warm up for the rest of the week. We met a lot of good people there and did lots of hand shaking and set a few lunch dates for follow ups with other start-ups and a few investor contacts. I would have been happy with the presentation where it ...
