Piins - extended Beta

very, very soon (1st of May) Piins is entering an extended Beta version meaning that not only friends and family can see, live and breathe the spirit of Piins.

If you are interested in participating in this extended beta, send us a mail to invitations@piins.com with a funny, exciting or otherwise catchy reason why you should be on it and you'll get an invitation code. If you want, you can also get on our "most famous reasons why I want to be on Piins" list :)

Applications are open until 15th of May 2008.

Hope to see you soon on Piins.

Minibar honors Piins

Christian from Minibar allowed Piins do start the ‘web innovators in residence’ blog at the Minibar site. The first blog can be seen here on the Minibar site.

More blogs of Piins to appear there. So stay tuned :)

PIINS – AIMS AND PHILOSOPHY BLOG Nr. 1

So people keep asking us – “what’s Piins all about?”. But as with many new concepts when you first start working on them, it’s actually quite hard to sum it up in one pithy sentence. Piins offers such a huge amount of functionality in one clever application that focusing on one specific thing never seems to do it justice.

However, if we were pushed to ‘piin it down’ we’d probably say that Piins simplifies your online life. That’s a bit vague and non-specific we hear you say? Well, the truth is that whatever you want to do on the internet – Piins makes it easier. It’s that simple. And that big.

Piins is a unique combination of social media applications and services accessible via a personalised toolbar anywhere on the internet. In essence Piins turns the web into your own personalised internet (you might call it the ‘Piinternet’).

We think Piins has the potential to be as revolutionary as Google was. Big words…but we really believe this. We are aiming to change forever the way that people access and share online content and store personal data. We also provide people with the tools to completely personalise the online experience, turning every website into a social space that is unique to the user. We promise you it will change the way everyone uses the internet.

Piins @ Minibar - 28th of March

As many of you have read in our last post, Piins is still in 'stealth-mode'. We've received quite some e-mails regarding this and whether we can disclose anything yet. Please bare with us some more weeks. Be assured, no one except the team and our investors know what it is about yet, so it is just fair not to disclose to some individuals and not some others.

For everyone who might care (and even for those who don't), we want to announce, that we're leaving our strict 'stealth-mode' in the next Minibar, where Christian, the organizer, secured one of the much sought-after presentation slots for Piins. We'd be very happy if you could mark the 28th of March red in your calendar. Sign up at the Meetup site, still room for about 30 people. It's worth it...

We're going to distribute 100 MOO minicards with unique invitation-codes on them for our hopefully very dedicated first-ever user group. These will be the only ones to see the interiors of Piins for about another month until we're opening to a wider audience, well presumably the whole OpenID community at least.

In case you can't make it, don't worry - we're going to post at least some pictures of the event on this blog. So although, we're very sorry, that we didn't meet you personally at least you can see us - for whatever that's worth.

See you there...!

Further Links: Minibar Location (GoogleMaps)