Monthly Archives: April 2009

We Are Movie Stars!

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Mike Butcher just posted on TechCrunch Europe: GeeknRolla – The Movie

And Guess what? BeeBole is in!

Geek ‘n Rolla was a day long (April 21, 2009) conference for startups created by TechCrunch Europe. As part of the day we asked startups around Europe to celebrate with a little rocking out. This video was created by Bonney and Klein, conceived by Stradbroke Advisors. GeeknRolla was sponsored by Viadeo, and supported by UK Trade and Investment, as well as NESTA, School for Startups and Bootlaw.

GeeknRolla – The Movie from Mike Butcher on Vimeo.

On Behalve of BeeBole, I have to thank Bonney and Klein and Inma Martinez from Stradbroke Advisors for inviting us to participate to the video and of course TechCrunch Europe.

It feels good to be considered as a rocking start-up.

Usability of Web Business Tools, Research on the Missing link

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Ben Kepes from CloudAve recently wrote Is There a sweet spot for features? about usability issues in web applications offering more and more features everyday.

As he states:

It’s easy as pie to create a good looking and intuitive user experience when your solution only includes a few functional areas, but as you roll out further functionality all of a sudden that simplicity and intuitive feel starts to lose out to nested menus, complexity and options.

In my opinion, you have to solve two main issues:

  1. How do you combine keeping it simple for users with simple needs with offering a complete solution to power users.
  2. How do you display and browse your data, especially when the amount of features becomes huge.

Before going further, I encourage you to watch our first video about the BeeBole interface and features illustrating a few of the points discussed here.

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Extreme Makeover

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During the week-end, our blog has been through an extreme makeover.

  1. The design has changed. If you can’t see those changes or if the design looks weird, just hit the refresh button of your web browser.
  2. The re-design includes a lot of new features, mainly in the side bar: direct access to the recent posts, pictures, videos, … and at the end of each post you will find a list of all the related posts.
  3. The URL has also changed. Instead of http://beebole.com/blog/, it is now http://beebole.com/en/blog/. The old URL being redirected to here, it shouldn’t be an issue for the old links you might have in your favorites.

Don’t hesitate to give us any feedback about the new design/features or to report bugs via the comments hereunder.