weblins conquer Windows Live Messenger! Windows Live starts cooperation with zweitgeist GmbH

zweitgeist GmbH and Windows Live Messenger, one of the most popular fast communication tools for young people, announced the start of their cooperation today. With 7 million users in Germany alone, the new Instant Messenger, with features such as contact list, emoticons and immediate contact with friends, is one of the most popular forms of communication. Exclusive avatars and completely branded clients are just two of the many possibilities Windows Live Messenger provides its community.

Find out more http://messenger.weblin.com and download the Windows Live Messenger version of weblins for free.

Beta phase successfully completed; zweitgeist becomes weblin

zweitgeist GmbH has completed the successful Beta phase of its social software zweitgeist and now announces that the software has been renamed “weblin”. In view of the international alignment of the company’s strategy and the user groups targeted in future, the change of name is an important step to make the consumer software also known to non German-speaking users worldwide.

Federal Ministry of Economics awards prize to zweitgeist

Outstanding award for zweitgeist GmbH: on the occasion of the Founder Congress Multimedia 2007 in Berlin on 6th March, the start-up company received the prize for the lighthouse project of the High-Tech Gründerfonds (Founder Fund) in the category multimedia from parliamentary state secretary Dagmar Wöhrl. Following the “Innovation Prize Web 2.0″ from the State of Baden-Wurttemberg in the category “Digital Life”, this was already the second award for zweitgeist in the last six months.

High-Tech Gründerfonds invests in zweitgeist GmbH

The High-Tech Gründerfonds has invested in zweitgeist GmbH to support the development of the company. zweitgeist develops and markets a social software of the same name which makes people visible on web pages and context-related communication possible.

zweitgeist aims to make the use of the Internet more personal and emotional for private users. The software brings together people with similar interests: Modelled on the real world, zweitgeist users can see each other whenever they are in the same room at the same time. In the Internet, the room is the web page. zweitgeist users are visible to one another as avatars. With the new social software users can create their own individual virtual character. The users can either select their virtual figure from an avatar palette or upload their own photo. The avatar palette also includes animated figures. These figures can run, show emotions, wave and clap.

Jan Andresen new CEO of zweitgeist GmbH

Jan Andresen is the new CEO of zweitgeist GmbH. The 30-year-old has been supporting the two founders Dr. Heiner Wolf and Christine Stumpf since December. The zweitgeist idea of making people visible on web pages convinced the entrepreneur and business angel to become involved in the company, with full responsibility.

zweitgeist wins Innovation Prize Web 2.0 in the category Digital Life

zweitgeist wins the Innovation Prize Web 2.0 in category 2: “Digital Life - new forms of social interaction in the second generation Web”. The prize was awarded on the occasion of the doIT Congress on 16th November in Freiburg.

The “Innovation Prize Web 2.0 is awarded by the MFG for successful second generation Internet applications. In the category “Digital Life”, focus was on new forms of interaction, individual participation possibilities and the degree of innovation. The MFG Baden-Wurttemberg held the competition for the first time in the course of the project “Innovation Programme Web 2.0″. The award is given to innovative, next generation Internet applications from Baden-Wurttemberg. zweitgeist, the alter ego which is visible on every web page, succeeded in convincing the jury in category 2: Digital Life - new forms of social interaction in the second generation Web. The zweitgeist software provides a new method of communication across all web pages.