By nicole on 18. August 2008 Kommentare (0)
Our Country Manager Turkey, Şekip Can Gökalp, wrote an article as a guest blogger on thenextweb.org. In “Turkey: a status update of a promising Internet market” Şekip gives an overview on the Internet and startup scene in Turkey and describes some of the turkish web2.0ish services.
“Let’s take a look at Turkey. With an estimated Internet penetration of 37%, Turkey has a total Internet user amount of 26 million people. You can find more to it in this study of Sina Afra from Ebay. I wish to give an introduction to this newly blooming market, which, I think, should be on the list of every company who has the goal to be successful on a global scale.”
He concludes that “Turkey will be one of the most important markets in Europe” and that this development will lead to better services which will focus on social networks and social shopping. Since we launched a Turkish version of mixxt in July, we won’t be too unhappy if his forecast would come true 
By nicole on 18. August 2008 Kommentare (1)
After our successful launch in Poland in May this year, mixxt made a further step towards internationalisation and expanded into Turkey. Şekip Can Gökalp, our Turkish Country Manager, is responsible for increasing the awareness of mixxt, the development and support of the Turkish community as well as the care of our business customers. Because of several years of experience within the range of marketing and Social Networks in Turkey, he has established excellent relations throughout the Turkish market and comments on our launch:
“Social Networking is one of the hottest topics in the Web for Turkey. The community kit mixxt as a first-mover offers the ideal tool for all niches in Turkey and will be very successful in a short time. I am glad to support the mixxt team with the internationalisation.”
“Turkey is one of the fastest-growing markets and even the big players in our sector are just discovering it right now. The key is to be local & first-mover. We are pleased that our Social Network kit is so well accepted here straight away and are happy to welcome a network for a large gothic magazine (karakalem.mixxt.com) as well as one for the promotion of Turkish startups (etohum.mixxt.com) on our plattform.” founder and CEO Oliver Ueberholz says.
Webrazzi for example, which can be compared with techcrunch, posted an article about mixxt as a competitor to ning and grou.ps. Erhan Erdoğan of Webrazzi writes in his post “I appreciate right startups coming to Turkey with the right local professionals working for them.”
With German, English, Polish and Turkish, mixxt is now ‘quadrilingual’, or - to be precise - offers four and a half languages, as a formal German is additionally available in order to meet the requirements of our corporate customers and formal events. More than 1,500 network founders have already created their community. Why don’t you give it a try? It’s easy, fast and fun!
By nicole on 8. July 2008 Kommentare (0)
In the course of our current update, we finally integrated the feature, which many of our users have been waiting for: the blog module! Using a blog on your network makes it easier for the network founders to communicate with their peer group, to keep them up to date about what’s going on around their respective topic and to receive feedback via comments. Administrators can activate this module in the network settings and configure it individually.
To enable your own blog just click on “create blog” in the blog module and get started. Think of a fancy name for your blog and describe it in a few words to let your readers know what it’s all about. After that you can determine whether only your friends or all members are allowed to see your entries. If you like to play with or test the blog features first, you can (temporarily) switch off the visibility. In addition you can specify if incoming comments must be approved by you before going online.
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By nicole on 8. July 2008 Kommentare (0)
Last night we updated mixxt to version 0.13.x. Apart from technical optimisations the new version called “violet” comes along with many new and exciting features.
Blog module
From now on you can use mixxt as a blogging-tool as well. Network founders may activate and configure this feature and open new communication channels for their community. In our blogpost “New: Blogs within mixxt-networks” you’ll find more infos on this.
News feed
The news feed which was already integrated for each user in our last update is now available for each network separately. At a glance, members can now see what’s up in their respective network, which important dates are to come and whether new members joined or what they are up to. By filtering the entries, users may also decide which activities they’d like to be displayed.
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By nicole on 29. May 2008 Kommentare (0)
Last week mixxt came up with a new version called “witamy”, the Polish word for “welcome”. Our update to version 0.12.X includes many exciting features, innovations and surprises.
The new starting page
We have completely revised and redesigned the starting page to provide our users with useful information. At a glance you can now see what mixxt is all about, what mixxt offers and for which occasions mixxt can be used. We have made the effort to describe various applications, but of course the sky is the limit to your imagination! To make it instantly apparent what your new online community can get up to with mixxt, the important features are briefly presented as well. In addition, you can search for existing networks or get inspired by the references (tag cloud) and recommended networks.
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By nicole on 10. April 2008 Kommentare (0)
The first mixxt badges have just been implemented into our productive system. If you like to let your visitors know which networks you are a member of or promote your network on your website, give them a hint by using our widgets. You still cannot reach them directly over the networks, but if you know the code, you can be one of the first to use them. Of course, users can object their profile being used in widgets, as well as admins can deactivate badges. Your privacy really matters to us. So here we go: How do you get such a badge for your website or blog? Let me explain this on basis of a BarCamp Berlin 2-badge:
This is the badge “memberinfo”, which shows a part of the member profile:
Just use the following code to embed the badge into your website or blog:
The “networkinfo” badge presents some key data of a network:
You can embed this badge by using the following code:
Please note that this is still an alpha version of the badges. If you like to have another network shown in the badge, you can configure the embed code by using another network’s domain. There is a difference between nickname and real name networks: In nickname networks, parameters have to be set like this for the correct nickname: “?member=oliver” or, if you imagine “spongebob” being a member of the network “?member=spongebob”. In real name networks, the memberinfo badge refers to the user’s mixxt ID. And now: have fun with our badges.
By nicole on 8. April 2008 Kommentare (0)
In our previous blogpost we have already announced some changes within the current update. The privacy settings are very complex and detailed, therefore they deserve their own entry. If you click on “mixxt settings” in the upper green mixxt bar in one of your networks, you reach our new global layer and find the privacy settings on the 7th rank. Please note that while you set your standard settings here, you will be able to configure your privacy for each network individually in the future (according to the next update).
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By nicole on 8. April 2008 Kommentare (1)
As you might have noticed, we updated mixxt to version 0.11.1 a few days ago! The last version “moonrise” was replaced by “misiu”, a name proposed by our new employee Kamila. If you have any idea about the meaning of this name, don’t hesitate to drop a comment 
But the name is surely not the only exciting part of our new mixxt-version. As wished by many users, we finally launched “the global settings” or (as techies would call it) “the global layer”. Within these settings users can administer their accounts including their profile and privacy-settings as well as their membership in the different networks. You can enter this top level of all your networks by clicking the “mixxt settings” in the upper green bar.
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By oliver on 31. March 2008 Kommentare (4)
We are more than excited to announce that mixxt has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring EMEA 2008. This not only makes us proud but also tells us we are on the right way to providing a fully fledged white label social networking service that delivers. We were curious and checked out what the other finalists are passionate about. So here is the complete list of finalists with some short info and links to their respective sites (if we could find them): Read more »
By nicole on 17. March 2008 Kommentare (0)
Under the slogan “the critical mass” the second re:publica-conference takes place in Berlin from April 2nd to 4th. Bloggers and other netizens gather to exchange and network about cultural, medial, political and technical aspects of the Internet and new ways of communication.
In addition to the official website and wiki, a social nework has been set up with mixxt. Participants can announce their attendance and present their profile to get in touch with old and new contacts. Furthermore, the network offers possibilities of interaction and information during the conference, members can provide feedback and stay connected after the event. We are looking forward to a few exciting days in Berlin and our team will be available for your questions and feedback!
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