We receive a lot of messages from people who are happily using Fleck. Often I forward these around the office and for the next site we are planning on having a whole section of user testimonials because we are often surprised at the different ways that people use Fleck.

Today I got this great letter from Kelly Tenkely who is a k-5 Computer Teacher:

I just wanted to say a BIG Thank You for Fleck! I am a computer teacher and Fleck has made my life so much easier! I absolutely love being able to Fleck pages for my students so that they can be self guided through lessons. It is amazing. Having 26 students at once makes it hard for me to answer individual questions, especially after I have already given directions…Fleck has cut way down on the questions because they can see what they need to do. It is like having me sitting right there next to them

She even wrote a review on Fleck on ilearntechnology.com.

If you use Fleck and like it please let us know so we can show these letters here and link to you.

On January 31, 2008 we are hosting the Dutch Bowlr event here in Amsterdam. We don’t have much experience with bowling so we decided to practice a little bit today.

Bowling is actually pretty much fun and we are even more excited than before about the Bowlr event!

More info here:
http://bowlr.nl

More photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thenextweb/

When I heard that Arjen was working on a new version of the Fleck logo I couldn’t help but worry. I like the old logo a lot and wasn’t ready to say goodbye to it. But this morning Arjen showed me what he did and I was just very happy!

He took the old logo and upgraded it with just a very subtle shade of grey in the white area. This is a very nice improvement and it just shows that to improve things you don’t necessarily have to throw out all the old stuff.

The new logo is also less pink and more red. This gives it a slightly more serious feel.

My favorite changes are incremental changes.

This is the ‘old’ Fleck logo:

And this is the updated Fleck logo:

What do YOU think?

Patrick came up with a brilliant way to demonstrate the new version of Fleck. He uses his iPhone and a bunch of images he imported with iTunes and then flips through the presentation while occasionally ‘pinching’ in or out.

The resolution and brightness of the iPhone makes it a great presentation device. It is also a lot sexier and more convenient than lugging around a laptop with Powerpoint.

Last week Patrick and Arjen roamed the halls at FOWA in London and everybody who was interested got their personal iPhone Fleck 2.0 demo. In the photo you can see Scott Rafer enjoying the presentation.

So what do YOU think his words were the exact moment the photo was made?

a: “Aha, so THAT is why I should buy an iPhone!”
b: “Oh shit, I think I left something on the stove!”
c: “Wow, Fleck is just the coolest thing EVER!”
d: “I’m going to shave my beard off and glue it to my forehead”

Looking forward to your guesses in the comments.

Patrick and I are going to Techcrunch20 next week to promote Fleck.com to the 600+ visitors there. We are leaving for San Francisco on Friday September 14 early in the morning and will be back somewhere the 20th. We WILL wear our white suits again, as usual.

We plan to have our own little private party on Sunday September 16 in the Supperclub so if you want to join us for a glass of champagne water there please mail me.

If you have any tips or suggestions for companies we should visit or people we should meet or more parties we should go to please leave a comment or mail me.

Arjen is working in Argentina with some developers on the next version of Fleck. At the office in Amsterdam, David and Lennaert are building new features and working on the infrastructure and Martijn is working on the re-design. So we’re getting somewhere.
Over the last months we’ve been talking to a lot of people and have had a huge amount of feedback from our users (gracias). Right now we are developing the new version of Fleck with all this information, our own vision, and some magic elf-powder.
We are really looking forward to the new Fleck. It has some very cool and powerful features. We signed up for TechCrunch20 to launch the new version there, but as we’re not the only one (600 companies were submitted) we’ll have to see if we’re being selected.
If we’re not selected we will think of another way to launch the new version (don’t worry, we’ll come up with something).

We’ll tell more about the new features and the all new Fleck in the coming month. For now you can enjoy an interview with Patrick de Laive on loscreador.com about fleck, the web and some other personal stuff.

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