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Free your ideas!

It always happens just in a blink of an eye. Suddenly, it's there in your head. You do not even expect it to happen, like we didn't, 12 months ago. Ideas spring up all the time and disappear again shortly afterwards. There is no need to catch all your thoughts. ...

Review: Building the Web 2.0 Enterprise

A McKinsey Global Survey about Building the Web 2.0 Enterprise that companies are increasingly using Web 2.0 tools and technologies. In June 2008, 1,988 executives were asked in a McKinsey Global Survey, which tools their companies have implemented and for what purposes. Furthermore, they were asked about their satisfaction. The survey ...

2nd Web Monday Zurich

We were happy to host the 2nd Web Monday Zurich at our office. Ted from The Conversation Group and Marc from Amiando shared with us some insights about Facebook f8, Silicon Valley and the US market. And here we were again, gathering for a beer, a chat and two interesting speeches. "We ...

TechCrunch Zurich Interviews

During the TechCrunch Meet-Up in Zurich, Nico Luchsinger from the Zurich-based newspaper NZZ interviewed Mike Butcher and a few selected start-ups. Luckily, he started his session in the Bluewin Chat Corner with Cassiber, followed by Wua.la, Amiando, Doodle, LiberoVision and others. The Mike Butcher Interview The Cassiber Interview

Measuring the crowd within

Two psychologists, Edward Vul of MIT and Harold Pashler of the University of California in San Diego, have tested the wisdom of crowds by simulating online "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?". The wisdom of crowds (best-seller by Surowiecki) is described as the fact that under certain circumstances a crowd's ...

Busy July 1st 2008

Launching our corporate and our product website turned out not to be a one-click action. However, it was perfect team work. Thanks Mike, Rahel, Valentin and Mathias! We went live yesterday with announcing the successful closure of our beta testing phase. Since we deliver software as a service, we are dedicated ...

Ideas and Iteration - a Google perspective

Marissa Mayer, VP of Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at Google held a speech back in May 2006, which still seems to apply to Google and to many companies from several different industries. In her speech, she shared at Stanford University her top 9 list of philosophies. We ...

Different View, right message

We have processed the former introduction on our corporate website through Wordle, which turns a text into a word cloud. Nice tool, especially because it displays the right message, which we tried to describe with a few hundreds words. What is Cassiber? We allow companies to create, structure and develop ...

Web Monday Zurich - Inagural Event

Yesterday, May 26th 2008, Web Monday Zurich took place the first time @ Amazee's office, Technopark Zurich. Thanks to Dania (Amazee) and Roman (Suxedoo) for organising this event. There are several Web Montag (Blog) held around the world. Yesterday's inaugural Web Monday in Zurich was a very informal gathering of ...

Synetgies Event

Last Monday, we had the pleasure to speak about Cassiber for Synetgies at the Swiss federal institutes of technology ETH. The organisation Synetgies is a network of young entrepreneurs and students from Swiss universities, universities of applied sciences and the two Swiss federal institutes of technology. At this event, we ...