Archive for the ‘general’ Category

Google App Engine: great news for us Python enthusiasts

Monday, April 14th, 2008

A few days ago Google App Engine was launched, a new platform for hosting (and scaling) your web applications. The platform received much attention in the blogosphere and of course comparisons with Amazons EC2 were quickly made in major tech blogs. We were especially excited to hear that Google had chosen ...

See you at the Next Web Conference 2009

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Although we weren't able to attend The Next Web Conference this year because of our busy development-schedule, we did keep a close watch through the live feeds. It's great that a small country like ours hosts a conference with such an impressive line-up of speakers and events! For anyone who ...

Partner-area launched!

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

After a long time of developing we have finally raised the curtain a little bit! We now have a live partner-area where selected online retailers can subscribe. When registered, partners can manage their own account and information online. YouTellMe offers retailers an exciting new platform to display and promote their product offerings. Our innovative ...

Jason Calcanis on web startups

Monday, March 10th, 2008

A few days ago, Jason Calcanis from Mahalo.com wrote a blog post entitled: How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips). After posting it, he received numerous critical comments from bloggers everywhere. Michael Arrington on Techcrunch was a bit milder and endorsed many of the points made ...

IE8 Beta release…back to work

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Sometimes you can't resist doing something that you are bound to regret...Kinda what I felt like when I was clicking the download button for Microsofts IE8 Beta. We're in the process of optimizing for browser compatibilty for our own beta launch here at YouTellMe HQ, and we've got FF, IE6 & IE7 pretty much done after days ...

Job openings: ambitious startup looking for exceptional individuals

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Happy new year to all! My new year's resolution is to further expand our talented team working at YouTellMe HQ. We are looking for exceptional individuals with an extreme passion for their work. If you've (secretly) been dreaming about working for a young startup, where small teams achieve great things, then you're ...

YouTellMe founders in Metro newspaper

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Today Joost and Thijs, the founders of YouTellMe, are featured in an article in Metro about young entrepreneurs. The article features several young companies from the incubator 'Area 010' where we are located. This also means that our PR offensive has now officially started. If you strive for world domination, ...

Welcome to the YouTellMe blog!

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

On this blog we will keep you posted on YouTellMe, thé new European social shopping website. The company founders (Joost Nauta & Thijs Goos) as well as our top engineers (Rick van Hattem & Thierry Schellenbach) will write about all the fascinating aspects of founding a new business and developing ...