We didn’t win the competition. But the judge did, sort of, give us an honourable mention. She said that there were 100 companies that signed up of which only 50 were invited. Then she said “in two days we saw 45 presentations and one story”.

Made my day.

Because of the politicians that had to be fitted in (bah!) there wasn’t any time left to see the presentations of the winners on the big stage. And that was the main reason to sign-up for the contest in the first place!

So unfortunately I don’t know what the winners do…..

An anonymous Fleck user told us that she uses Fleck for another reason than just annotating and sharing websites. Because Fleck uses a different URL for the page so we can add the Flecks the URL isn’t recognised by company Internet Filters. This means that if you can’t read certain websites you can just go to Fleck.com first, enter the url you want to visit and go there without being blocked.

That is, until your company blocks Fleck. So enjoy it while it lasts…

Fleck was given a presentation slot in the Startup Room at Le Web 3. I was very nervous before and during my presentation but I do think it went good.

Normally I’m not that nervous but the room was small and warm and I still didn’t feel too good from last night and just before my presentation I met a VC from the US who asked me to talk a bit about Fleck. He was very friendly but I just couldn’t get one sentence after another and kept stuttering and was constantly searching for words. That didnt bode very well for my public pitch.

But halfway through my story I noticed one of the judges smilling at me and that was all the reassurence I needed to make my nerves diappear. I decided not to show any slides but just try to tell an interesting story about the history of Hypertext, Vannevar Bush and how I hope Fleck will play a part in that. My opening words were “I won’t show you a presentation but I’ll tell you a story so you can relax for a few minutes now”.  The judges jokingly let out a huge sigh of relief which was a good start.

Patrick told me that the winning presentation will get a speaking slot at the end of the day and might even get another prize. This is going to be exciting!

We couldn’t come to Les Blogs/Le Web 3 empty handed so today we present a new and important new feature. If you use Fleck now you will be able to blog straight from the Fleck interface to your blog.

In theory at least! You do need a WordPress blog and you need to know your username and password. We will add support for Blogger, Typepad and other platforms too as soon as possible.

This is how it works: Fleck any page on the web and then click the “Blog” button. There you will have to supply the address of your blog and your password and username. You will then be able to write a blog post and your Flecked page URL will be inserted automatically in your blog.

Fleck remembers your data for you and you can enter the address of several blogs. You can select the blog you want to post too from a drop down menu.

Give it a try and let us know how it works for you!

We are on our wat to Paris to visit Les Blogs. It is a 6 hour drive and are halfway. We decided to stop for lunch and the first thing we found was a McDonalds.

Tonight there is a diner for all The Dutch visitors of the conference so that where we are going too.

On monday we will launch a new Fleck feature and on tuesday we will present Fleck at the conference.

Thursday, December 14, we will host a Fleck Friends Users and Bloggers Beer Party (FFUBB in this case) at our office in Amsterdam (Oosterdokskade 3, suite 804). It starts at 8 and lasts until 11.

We’re throwing this party to celebrate the launch of Fleck, to show some appreciation to the ones we love and our happy users, to have a good time and to show off our fabulous office
The office has limited capacity and we are taking open sign ups for 111 right now.
It will be a nice evening with great people. We will show some new stuff that we’re working on and Twones.com will play the music, based on the crowds favorite songs. So bring your iPod to influence the playlist!

We’ll serve cold beer, Champagne and Wodka!

Other companies are welcome as well to show their cool service, if interested drop us a mail. (no costs…, well may be you have to chip something in for the drinks)

Your invited! So why not be there… Just notify us you’ll be there by leaving a comment on this page

See you next week!

The Fleckees

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