Newsletter: Preview our new release
Dear MindMeister User,
We hope you've had an enjoyable summer - we've certainly had a busy one here at the MeisterOffice, one of the reasons why it's been a bit quiet on the newsletter front lately. But those days are over, so here's some first info about what we've been up to!
First off, the new release of MindMeister is almost here, and we've got some preview spots for those keen testers among you. Secondly, conference season has started again, and we've got some specials and promotions for existing and new MindMeister users for some great events. And last but not least, as always some internal news - pretty exciting this time!
Have fun reading,The MindMeister Team
Preview the New MindMeister
The fruit of this summer's labours is almost ripe - the new MindMeister version is close to being released! Due to the sheer number of new features and UI updates we would've called it MindMeister 3.0, but version numbers are sooo Web 1.0 ... anyway, we're quite proud of some of the new version and would really like to share the zing of it with a chosen few of you before going live.
So if you are a MindMeister Premium user and would like to catch a glimpse of the new release please drop us an email at preview@mindmeister.com - the first 50 to write will get an account on our preview server where the release candidate will be deployed soon!
Oh yeah, and the actual release is not that far away either, hopefully arriving within the next couple of weeks when those last few glitches are ironed out.
Event Specials and Promotions
Should you be planning to attend any of the events listed below, make sure you identify yourself as a MindMeister user and benefit from the following specials and promotions:
Office 2.0 Conference
Office 2.0 aficionados won't want to miss the conference of the same name in San Francisco, organized for the third time by the brilliant Ismael Ghalimi. MindMeister will be represented by Thomas, our new marketing man, and we're sponsoring free Premium accounts for all attendees of the show! Plus, you'll get a HP 2133 Mini PC from Ismael on which to try out MindMeister on a really small screen...
Triple-I 2008
Slightly closer to home for us Europeans is the Triple-I Conference - a Semantic Web convention - in Graz, Austria. MindMeister is a premier sponsor of the event and again all attendees get free Premium accounts for a year. Yay!
Should you already have a Premium license, entering the code will extend your subscription by another year. Oh, and Michael will be giving another one of his talks on the story of MindMeister.
Railsconf Europe
Next, an event for the tech savvy: the Railsconf Europe 2008 is happening at Berlin from September 2-4. Till will be giving a talk about Offline Rails Applications with Google Gears and Adobe AIR. He has a bunch of free Premium coupons in his pocket and will give them to the first 100 people to come up to him and buy him a beer. Just kidding about the beer, of course.
Web 2.0: Practical Applications for Business Benefit
Finally, MindMeister users get a special deal for the Unicom Web 2.0 Conference taking place in London on October 1-2, 2008, with a preceding workshop on September 30.
If you're a Premium MindMeister you automatically qualify for a promotional discount of 30% off the regular conference price and 50% off the regular workshop price.
If you happen to be in the area and are interested in going, just register online and select MMPU from the "Please can you tell us how you heard about UNICOM" dropdown list to get your discount!
Internal News
Investment round closed
We're very excited to announce that we recently closed our first investment round. This increase of capital comes at a perfect time for us, especially given the recent growth we've had in the business and academic space. We'll soon be publishing some more info about the angel-funded round, which - apart from the cash - has brought in some really experienced guys too.
Renaming the company
Together with bringing in some new investors we've also give the company a new name that's more in line with the MindMeister brand. So, when in future your notification email footers say MeisterLabs instead of Codemart, don't worry, it's still us (and not some cheeky spammer faking modified maps where there aren't any ...).