Nikolai Roth is new Business Development Manager at zweitgeist GmbH

zweitgeist GmbH is putting their money on Nikolai Roth as new Business Development Manager. Roth, born in Göttingen, has been supporting the social software weblin team since the beginning of May. (more…)

Award: zweitgeist is awarded special prize by Baden-Württemberg for the most innovative founder concept

zweitgeist GmbH from Karlsruhe has been awarded the CyberOne Award 2007. At the ninth award ceremony, the original weblin software company received the special prize for the most innovative founder concept from Minister-President Günther Oettinger in the name of the technology network Baden-Württemberg: Connected (bwcon). “The jury was especially impressed by the new entertainment and advertising format for the Internet. The software works on any web page without the involvement of the web page operator”, was the comment of the jury members when awarding the prize to zweitgeist GmbH.

Cool action hero or powerful magic elf? The new weblin models show everyone what you are playing at!

Showing your own alter ego in the virtual gaming world to other Web users - this is now possible with the brand new, fully animated weblin avatars. Fans of action, role playing or sports games can thus recognise one another immediately and can see at first glance whether the other weblin prefers the same genres. (more…)

Beastly good! The new avatars of the weblin community

weblin has been inspired by the enthusiasm surrounding the little polar bear Knut. The large number of animated avatars available at weblin has therefore been enhanced with animal characters: brand new motives of four-legged friends are now available. Roam the Web as dog or show yourself as a purring cat to the other weblin users. With funny animations such as wagging their tails, giving a paw or cleaning their coats, the cuddly animals liven up the Internet. The range of figures available will be continually expanded in the course of the next few months: you will soon be able to strut around the search engines as a king penguin or mark out your territory in e-shops as noble wild cat. To make sure that you do not miss out on the many new avatars from the animal world, it is worth your while to regularly visit the weblin home page. (more…)

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.