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Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Have a great Valentine’s day from all here at the gipht.me team.

We *love* all of our great gipht.me users. (And we’re ever so happy that you’ve been growing in number lately quite a bit.)

As you may have figured out by now, gipht.me is an excellent way to communicate for practically any purpose. This goes doubly so during special occasions and holidays throughout the year and we’re all over providing awesome content for you to share with your friends and loved ones.

So all our users will be receiving a little special something from us later today and we also have thoughtfully bunched our love giphts in a special “Valentine’s” category for you to send from. The category will be specially set out separately today but you can always find excellent love giphts in the “Flirt” and ’ Love” categories.

In other news we’re also working hard on our Android version which is looking great and will hopefully be available this month along with quite a few features that we’ve partly planned all along and partly the result of the excellent feedback our users provide. ( We love feedback! Want to to tell us something? Send us a message here )

Go out there and be someone’s Valentine!

-The gipht.me team

New version in the app store!

Happy New Year! 2012 will rock!

We’re happy to announce that the newest gipht.me app version just hit the app store and is available for download.

In this version we dealt with some of the hiccups. bugs and glitches that came up with our first version and we specifically dealt with some Facebook connectivity issues. 

Meanwhile, back at the bat-cave, our fearless coders and gipht designers are working hard on new giphts, great new features as well as incorporating quite a few redesigns that came up as a result of our users’ excellent feedback. Remember: We love feedback. See something you like? Tell us. See something you don’t like? Please, please tell us!

Have a great year!

-The gipht.me team

It’s… Alive!

We’re ecstatically happy to announce that version 1.0.3 of gipht.me is available to download on the iPhone here .Remember, our Android version will be coming soon in 2012.

So here we go and we hope you have fun exchanging giphts.

Look out for our “Near me” geo-location option which we managed to include in this version. As you’ll find out there are unique giphts you are entitled to send simply because of where you are; but we’ll also have timed giphts, that is to say giphts that will be available to send from somewhere, in a specific time-frame: These in effect will be unique and marked as such.

So stay tuned for -hint- New Year’s Eve ;-)

Have Fun,

The gipht.me team

gipht.me pre-launch party was a smash!

gipht.me had its pre-launch party this past Sunday 11th December in Athens and -according to those who could remember the next day- it was a smashing success.

And fun.

Over 500 friends and press attended the party where the gipht.me team presented the app live and showed users exactly what they were in for. 

While this was happening a photo booth allowed friends to take gipht.me photos and upload them to their social media accounts. As can be imagined the photo booth went into overdrive.

The whole mood was helped along by the fact that our good friends at Absolut (Thank you Absolut!) were kind enough to provide the evening with the requisite social lubrication.

We also provided hot-dogs to give the party-warriors keep their energy levels up.

George Spanoudakis gave a presentation explaining what gipht.me’s vision is and what to features to expect from us in the near future. Among other things, a few giphts were shown demonstrating the interactivity and what users should expect once they start using the platform. In another announcement gipht.me will be available in the next few days -in the week before Christmas- for iPhone while the Android version will be launched in the first weeks of 2012.

Following that came the group photo -because gipht.me is a group effort all the way- everyone who has worked to make gipht.me possible (and there’s more, some of our advisors and coworkers coudln’t make it: The facts of life when working globally).

Once the whole team went on stage and the presentation was over, Burger Project hit the stage, started rocking and the party reached another level that continued into the early hours of the next day.

It’s been a blast and a better pre-launch party we could not have hoped for.

Thanks to all and every one for attending and providing wishes and feedback! We hope to have occasion to repeat pretty soon.

Tech Crunch Moscow

So gipht.me is in Moscow!

Which, despite what you’d think, was cold but hardly freezing.

Eric and George flew out for the Tech Crunch Moscow 2011 event representing the whole team. (and giving them some peace and quiet so they can work)

gipht.me is going to be localised in various regions to provide you with the most relevant content so the main reason for the trip was to work closely with our Russian partners in preparing for the regional version.

Beyond that we had some exciting meetings and saw the tech ecosystem developing in this sprawling metropolis while visiting Digital October -the TechCrunch venue.

It was fun and coincidentally we’re proud to have been the sole non-Russian startup among the 9 finalists participating at the Startup battle. It’s always great when pitching to an audience to see them smile when they first experience gipht.me

Counting down till launch!

Speaking at the Hellenic Startup Association November 30th

As you may be aware, Greece is somewhat… troubled over these past few months. Grabbing headlines is one thing, having announcements from your PM headlining BBC’s main news page while being a relatively tiny country is another.

Nevertheless, there’s an aspect of Greece that doesn’t get headlines. Behind the scenes of demonstrations and confrontations, there’s a very active web scene being created. Collaborative workspaces are multiplying, Google events are sold out, TEDxAthens is fast becoming a national institution while OpenCoffee -an NGO centered around the Tech community getting together - just had it’s 43^rd meeting.

This is the Greece you don’t get to see in the nightly news.

A newcomer is the much needed Hellenic Startup Association and we’re extremely happy to be the keynote speakers presenting both gipht.me as well as our experiences so far on the startup road. The event is in Athens this Wednesday November 30^th.

We’ll give a talk and present gipht.me for the first time in public.

Woohoo! (note Blur reference)  

So here we go

Hi there! (note Peter Gabriel reference) and welcome to gipht.me. The platform that will allow you to enhance the way you communicate on mobile devices.

As you can see we’re launching our site (Welcome! - We’re still tidying up) and very soon bringing gipht.me to all of you out there.

But this blog is a bit more than about gipht.me. It’s about a group of partners and friends getting together, investing their time and energy and pursuing a vision. So this blog will also be about us and how things work out in the magical realm of startup country. We hope we won’t bore you (you can always skip those posts).

In a way this site and blog is a beginning but, like most things, as Faulkner wrote: The Past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.

To get here, just before launching, we’ve had a journey and what we’ve learned is that it’s exactly that: A journey. Everything feels vital. From creating the business plan, to making the plunge, to the first pitch, to the second pitch, to negotiating the deal, to the prototype, to the hiring, to the launch. Jitters and butterflies in the stomach. Crunch time and crunch time and crunch time again. We’ll be talking about all that too.

And then onward to our future milestones and stops across the way.

So we’d like to have you along. Welcome aboard.

We promise to try and keep everything relevant to you.

You see, this is the constant behind gipht.me and what we do:

It’s your messages, your experiences, your words.

We’re gipht.me and we’re wrapping your messages.