Look what was in the mail

Saying "Thank you" is very appreciated and a nice way of show what you like.

Thank you Rolf for making us smile.

Reverse Graffiti

Here are some images from our venture in making our office more beautiful from the outside. For the yearly OpenDoors we cleaned parts of the wall which is a bit dirty after all those years of dust and cars that drive on the nearby road.

When people see the writting on the wall they first think it is some kind of foil applied to the wall but in reallity it is just more clean than the rest of the wall. Reverse Graffiti if you want to see it that way.

The sentence is a poam from Ingeborg Bachmann. "Nichts Schönres unter der Sonne als unter der Sonne zu sein ..." Which translated means: "Nothing more beautiful under the sun than to be under the sun ..."

I must say. It just looks nice!!! If you have a chance take a look in real life.

Enjoy the images after the break.

OpenDoors at AtelierFrankfurt

Since almost a year, I work in my office at the artist residence AtelierFrankfurt. It is a place for artists/creatives of every category ranging from people doing photos, painting, sculpturing, design, architecture and everything in between.

Every year for a weekend we open up our rooms for the public and show off what he/she has done in the past year.

Luckily we are not the only artists residence in Frankfurt. Basis and a whole slew of private ateliers join us in the open door tradition. The weekend is a good way to broaden up your horizon on new talented artists and what they have done in the last year.
To give you a little preview you should check out the very talented artists: Jasmin Justice, Paula Anta, Florian Kissling, Amalia Borboza, Jesse Farber, Niklas Klotz, Kai Bergmann and Eunjoo Shin.

The AtelierFrankfurt and all the other participating ateliers are open for your visit on the 21-22 November 2009. The opening is on the 20.November and also features the opening of companion exhibitions from v3ent? and the city loves you, Familientreffen and Graffiti Repositioned.

Click on the flyer for more details and opening times.

A little work on the side, ...

Some of you might remember those days when you went to your local record store to fetch all flyers for the weekend and had a great selection of partys and events?

Today with all that digital media available at home, physical record stores loose their role as central party/events/flyer hub.
Myspace, Facebook and all the other social network sites have taken over. The only problem is that now you have to go on a digital hunt for the flyers. You'll find them well missplaced as user profiles images or burried in the comments section.
Not to mention that you have to know the right profiles where those flyers are posted, on ALL of these sites. Sounds like a big time investment. It certainly is.

In the sense of solving only one problem but this one well, Florian Kissling from 6230.org and I started a little project on the side:

was geht heute ab.de (what's up today)

A place for uploading and showing flyers for events and partys in Frankfurt am Main

If you're in the area and want to go out, check the website and have a really good, long night out in town.

Here is a one of the flyers using the embedded links generated from the site.

150 granted invitations

I just wanted to share an exciting milestone with you. HTTPush just passed the 150 granted invitations mark. For us this is very exciting news and we are very happy with the service so far. So if you have been holding yourself off, go to the signup page now and put yourself on the waiting list.

New API call: notifications statistics

You no longer need to guess how many notifications you send on a given day.

A new feature which enables statistics for your account has been live for a while but had no offical announcement on the blog.

With the new API calls it is now possible to query your statistics data per application with resolution in days, month and per year.

Read more about the new API calls here

We are updating the count every hour. Polling the data once a day should be sufficient for most use cases.

New API call: get a token based on a recipient_key.

We rolled out a new API call for HTTPush. You can now get a token based on a recipient_key.
Read more about the call here.

We updated
* the online documentation at docs.httpush.com
* the offline documentation at HTTPush Docu v0.10
* the client implementations at HTTPush Ruby Client v4

Also today we crossed an internal milestone with over a hundred signups, which makes us very happy.

Thank you all so far