No time to blog, a good sign?

No, we're not on holiday. Quite the opposite in fact. The project is going forward, sometimes backward, a bit to the side and sometimes leaping through different dimensions. It's difficult to blog any details in the middle of the turbulence, and there really is no time.

This week I saw the light at the end of the tunnel. The concept drawings are now alive, the architecture under the hood is solid and scalable. The gears are running just as we visioned, which feels amazing. It was magical to log in the service for the first time (for a moment, before the first fatal bug).

I think we're on schedule, launching something already this fall.

The flu

Maybe you have read the latest influenza news. And maybe you have noticed that internet has reacted to it in various creative ways. Our radar has picked up news visualization, Google flu trends in Mexico and few attempts to profit from the influenza. And then there's always art.

I wonder about what if our service was already ready and in wide use, how it would have affected this... It's clear that when a scary influenza starts spreading, it is completely different thing than common cold, because the officials start to take action. What internet and social media can do though, is provide data about the few last days, maybe help officials to focus the resources? I try not to think about the big brother, even though quarantining people by what they say in the internet is a heavy thing!

We'll come back with illtags.com later. We have made a few important steps with both concept and business development. We also had our first advisory board meeting, accidentally in a Mexican themed restaurant (= meant to be!). The project is gaining speed, still a long way to go though.

Planning ahead

We have spent the last weeks having some interesting negotiations with potential collaborators in Finland and around the world. We cannot tell all the details yet, but will tell you more when we get some final contracts done. We also got some additional workforce now, so our product development is proceeding at a comfortable pace now. 

So no more juicy details at this point, but we will keep you posted when we get a bit further.

New name, logo

This is what the end of the common cold will look like! If you are really deep in this web 2.0 thing, you may be able to guess something about how our service works by only looking at the white curvy lines of the logo...

Opening up, slowly

Next friday we will present our project to a set of bright minds in TAIK Medialab. Thank you Teemu Leinonen for the opportunity. Our presenation will be part of a bigger study project: http://mlab.taik.fi/thirdsector/

I think we have a screenshot of our service in one of the slides. This means we are opening up the project a bit, eventually on this "radically open" blog too :)

Kaisla Innovations, that's us!

Just wanted to let you know that we are called Kaisla Innovations and soon we'll have business cards. There's nothing in kaislainnovations.com, except that it's orange. Hanne told us that orange equals innovation ;)

Next week more update on our project. It's suprisingly difficult to be open about something that you are working on.

Some publicity 2

Here is a link to the story on Ylioppilaslehti published yesterday (in Finnish).