Product renaming to keep things simple

Why things started to be confusing

Over the last couple of month we have been working hard to develop our product and business. To demonstrate our keywording technology we have build several demos. Doing so we came up with many labels:

Our core technology, a restful webservice that enables the integration of advanced keywording features to any kind of software, has been labeled Keyword Service, Keywording Webservice or Keywording as a Service.

To show how easy it is to integrate our keywording features into existing applications we have made two exemplary integrations. The first one, a  keywording and photo tagging plugin for Aperture, has been named Annotator for Aperture (shortname tag).

Our browser based keywording tool has been labeled Webtag. Read on to learn about our new product name.

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Webtag Update: Webtag wears Bootstrap

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Thank you for your excellent feedback and ideas on our first Webtag release. We have considered your feedback and just released an update for Webtag that shows significant changes. The most compelling of your comments has been to use Bootstrap, from Twitter. Thus Webtag now wears Bootstrap! Please feel free to check out all the improvements we built in … and don't hesitate to send us more of your ideas and thoughts about it.

Webtag shows how to integrate the Kreuzverweis Keyword Service and what it can do.

Kreuzverweis moves on with EXIST II

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Proper funding is one of the corner stones for a successful startup company. Thus, we have been glad when we received the EXIST Forschungstransfer, a startup funding by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.

We are now very happy to announce that Kreuzverweis has been accepted for the second stage (phase II) funding of this excellent program. Phase II funding enables us to efficiently continue with the development of our business and to focus on our main goal: Useful software services that make digital media assets findable!

Webtag: Keywording for everyone

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Next to tag, our keywording tool for Aperture® users, we now also offer webtag, for free.

As its name implies, webtag stands for our latest web-based keywording app that builds on our Keyword Service. Feel free to try it out and to tell us what you like or dislike, e.g. about the user interface, the keyword suggestions, the name, … as we make it better every week – no kidding, weekly release cycles.

free tag beta is out

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We are happy to share our first beta version of tag – Annotator for Aperture® with interested users. tag - Annotator for Aperture
You can now download tag at http://kreuzverweis.com/tag-beta/. tag adds a new keywording user interface to Aperture® that improves keywording efficiency in many ways and is intended to help our users to improve findability of images, sales of images, and fun working with images!

We look forward to receive your feedback (both positive and negative) to improve tag according to your needs.

Kreuzverweis at ISWC 2011

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Kreuzverweis tools and services bring the latest semantic technology from research to their consumers. Not surprisingly, Kreuzverweis is well connected to current research on linked data and the semantic web.

We have a small stand at the International Semantic Web Conference 2011 that takes place in Bonn, Germany this year — starting October 22nd.

We look forward to meet you there, e.g. to talk about ongoing research and the latest developments at Kreuzverweis!

New Nodalities Article or: Carsten has not married the Company. Yet.

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The latest issue of Nodalities is out and Kreuzverweis is on the titlepage. In "Selling
Semantics – Striving for a Minimum Viable Product", Carsten explains our approach to building products based on semantic technologies. Somehow a small mistake sneaked in – Carsten's last name has been changed to "Kreuzverweis". But, ladies, fear not – It is not yet legal to marry a German company.

Check out the Nodalities article or read more about how we work in our blog.

Meet Kreuzverweis at KOpEE Kongress

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KOpEE LogoThomas and Simon will present Kreuzverweis at the KOpEE Kongress in Koblenz on 14 September. Thomas will give a talk about our Business SCRUM Framework for Business Development. Come meet us personally and take a peek at our live demo.

Kreuzverweis is Start-up Example of the Month

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We are glad to be mentioned as start-up example of the month on the start page of EXIST, where you can find an interview we had with EXIST. EXIST is the start-up funding of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.

New Video, New Startpage, Updated Keyword Service

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We have updated our website to reflect our latest developments and provide our visitors with more detailed and more user-friendly web pages. We have updated our startpage with a slider, we put a new video online about Keywording as a Service, and revised the presentation of the Kreuzverweis Keyword Service. Enjoy your visit!