GroupMe! Blog

GroupMe! has a small new feature: GroupMe! users are now clickable. This looks as follows: fabian.

If you have an own GroupMe! account then visit your personal GroupMe! page and specify a photo you would like to use for your account!

From 4th and 9th March 2008 we presented GroupMe! at the CeBIT - the world largest information and communication technology fair. We had a lot of interesting and motivating conversations, got enthusiastic feedback, and made a lot of future plans for GroupMe! Thanks to all people who visited GroupMe! We are looking forward to see you again!

GroupMe! participates in the CeBIT 2008, Hannover. We are looking forward to welcome you at our our exhibition stand, which is in Hall 9 B22!

With our new bookmarklet functionality, you are now able to add content to your GroupMe! groups via your browser while you are navigating through the web. Just add the following link to the bookmarks of your browser:

add to GroupMe!

This is the way you can do it with Firefox:

1. Add the link to your bookmarks:
   
2. Choose the “Bookmarks Toolbar” so that you can add content to GroupMe! with one click:
   
3. Finally, the GroupMe! button will appear in the toolbar of your browser:
   

Whenever you want to add a website, image, etc. to one of your GroupMe! groups, then just click on the GroupMe! button within your bookmarks toolbar.

GroupMe! now provides you with a Dashboard, which is part of your personal GroupMe! home. The dashboard displays notifications whenever…

• …another user has subscribed to one of your groups
• …another user has annotated one of your groups/resources
• …something happens in a group you have subscribed to
• …

Cheers,
GroupMe! team

Happy new year! During the christmas days we extended GroupMe! with some new features. We improved the personal GroupMe! home page which looks now as follows:

GroupMe! users are now able to subscribe to groups within the GroupMe! system (not only via a group’s RSS feed). Therefore, a subscription button is displayed at the top left corner of each group.

Another remarkable new feature is that GroupMe! users are now enabled to add resources to their groups while they are browsing the internet. To utilize this feature you just have to bookmark the following link (right mouse click -> “Copy link location”), e.g. you can add it to the bookmark toolbar of your browser.

Add-To-GroupMe! button:

If you have an own website feel free to put this button on your site so that visitors can group your site within their GroupMe! groups. We recommend GroupMe! users who want to utilize the Add-To-GroupMe! button to login to the GroupMe! system permanently (just mark the corresponding checkbox when you login and make sure that your browser supports cookies).

At the moment we are working on further features. Stay tuned!

During this years International Semantic Web Conference in Busan, Korea, we presented the GroupMe! system to the Semantic Web Community (corresponding paper). We got really great and valuable feedback. Thank you for that!

Based on the feedback we received in the last month, and especially during ISWC, we will now start to extend GroupMe! with new features. Besides some usability features we plan to add for example the following functionality:

• Integration of related Web 2.0 services. Users that have e.g. a Flickr or del.icio.us account will be supported to organize their personal photos or bookmarks in GroupMe!. And actions performed in the GroupMe! system (e.g. tagging) will be communicated to those services.
• My GroupMe!. We will provide an improved personal GroupMe! start page, which will e.g. list changes in groups a user has subscribed to.
• Personal Notes. GroupMe! user will be enabled to create notes and add them to groups.
• …

Our university plans to shutdown the electricity network because they have to do some maintenance. Therefore, we have to shut down our GroupMe! server at 5:00 pm (CET) on November 9th. We plan to re-start the server at 9:00 am (CET) on Nevember 12th. Hence, during that time, GroupMe! will not be available. We deeply apologize for any inconvenience!

Yeppeah! GroupMe! has taken the first barrier: We are in the final round of the Semantic Web Challenge 2007. Hence, we are one of the top 5 (of 23 participating) Semantic Web applications and will now present our work at the 6th International Semantic Web Conference in Busan, Korea. We are looking forward to see you there and discuss about future Semantic Web evolution

In September (2007-09-07) we will present GroupMe! at the I-SEMANTICS conference in Graz, Austria, as part of the Semantic Web days. There, we will focus on the simple creation of RDF (each user interaction in GroupMe! is captured as RDF…). Looking forward to see you in Graz!