On June 10th, Goojet has been organizing an event called “Mobile Media Night-by Goojet”. With the announcement of our fund raising, the launch of our new version but also, and on top of all, the beginning of our commercial offer, we had decided to celebrate with a special event. Instead of “just” setting up a party or an announcement event, we preferred preparing a more innovative and more “useful” concept. Thus, we organized a roundtable about the mobile and its possibilities for the announcers and the brands; the topic was: ”How do brands take advantage of the mobile internet explosion?”

Here is the invitation:

As you can see on the invitation above, we had managed to gather a group of qualified and diverse speakers:

+ Georges Mohammed Cherif - Founder @ Buzzman
+ Julien Guiraud - Digital Marketing Manager @ Coca-Cola
+ Michel Campan - Marketing Client Director @ Christian Dior Couture
+ Guillaume du Gardier -New Media Director @ Ferrero
+ Thomas Husson - Senior Analyst @ Forrester Research
+ Limvirak Chea - New Business Development @ Google EMEA
+ Antoine Levêque - Managing Director @ Marvellous / Isobar
+ Philippe Collombel - Managing Partner @ Partech International
+ Hervé Le Jouan - Managing Director Europe @ Comscore Census Solutions
+ Jérôme Jean - Internet Project Manager @ Toyota
+ Dominique Mohamed - Business Development @ Voyages Sncf

Were programmed: a presentation of statistics about mobile usage by Comscore, several panels with our speakers, a presentation of Goojet, and then, chats with a drink around a buffet. All along the evening, it was possible to discover Goojet, not only on the Plasma screens, but also because, for the first time since the creation of Goojet, there were more Goojet Team members in Paris than in Toulouse ;-).

During the night, we had also prepared a game called “Goojet Family”, whose concept was taken from the “7 families” game, which invited all the participants (more than 150 although the initial goal was 120…) to find the other members of their family to exchange goojets in a sticker format. Among the people who had found the most family members, an HTC Magic phone was to win; it is finally Milton from Phonevalley who won the device, lucky him!

Finally, here are some pictures of the event so you can have a look:

Posté dans News, events | Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 |

While we are launching the new version of Goojet, we are also proud to announce a new round of fundraising for Goojet, amounted to 6 million Euros.

Almost a year and a half after our first round of fundraising amounted to 2.3 million Euros back in Decmber 07, this new round was made by Goojet’s historical investors joined by Orkos Capital. If you are interested by this matter, you can have a look at their websites but also at others companies they have invested in:

+ Elaia Partners : Goom, Criteo, Wyplay, Total Immersion etc..
+ IRDI-ICSO : Leyio, Neosens, Ethiquable, Seanodes
+ Orkos Capital : Allocine, Start, Liligo, Newzy etc…
+ Partech International : Dailymotion, Goom, Digitick, Qype etc…

(Those examples were chosen randomly…)

The biggest question still remaining since the launching is “what will the money be used for?”. In a nutshell, there are two answers to this question: first, to continue our development in France, on the basis of our current growth and first experiences, and second to grow on an international scale, starting by Europe. This fundraising is a very good sign for Goojet’s growth because our value (that we won’t announce) is superior to the one we had a year and a half ago, for the first round.

You will find more details about this fundraising in our Press Release.

Posté dans News | Monday, June 8th, 2009 |

We’ve just released a new version of Goojet! Here are a few screenshots of what you will discover:

What are the new features of this version?

First, we had a slight reorganization. The first page that you will visualize when you will log on to Goojet will not only be your selection of goojets but will be divided into three tabs:

We worked more especially on the Messages and News tabs.

Your mailbox inside Goojet has been completely redone in order to ease communication between one or several Goojet users but also on the outside, for example with free text messages. With this new mailbox, it will be very easy to send a goojet or a goojet’s page, in order for example to share a cool video seen on YouTube Mobile or the last comical FML story…

The News tab will allow you to find everything that is new on your Goojet space: articles from your RSS feeds, amusing content, activities your Goojet contacts are doing… but also some recommendations for specific goojets, according to your preferences or coming from the community.
The purpose of this new function is to present, every time that you log on, a new content chosen depending on your choices and preferences. This is why we call Goojet a mobile social media!

A few other things to notice:

Posté dans News, Updates | Thursday, June 4th, 2009 |

Here we go! Goojet is available on the Android Market and all happy owners of an Android phone such as the HTC Dream (G1) or the HTC Magic (G2) will now have the chance to use Goojet!

After Goojet for iPhone with the iPhone app or previously a runtime for Blackberry that went in addition to our J2ME app, it was very logical for us to very quickly make it available on the Android platform. The motivation was double: Android is a platform that allows great development possibilities and the number of users will grow exponentially in the next months.

In this Goojet Android version you’ll find all the Goojet features you already know: easy navigation of goojets, video watching, pictures taken directly from the Goojet app, etc.

But there are two major new features exclusively for the Android version:

• Goojet notifications appear directly on the Android phone desktop (an icon appears at the top left of the screen when you have messages). On Android, the Goojet app runs in the background, checks regularly for new Goojet messages and then displays an alert! Real-time alerts ensure that you’re always aware of your Goojet activity, never missing a step (or date).

• The possibility to “bookmark a Goojet” and to put it on the phone desktop. Now you can easily launch one specific goojet from the Android phone dekstop!

Android Market can only by browsed from an Android phone but you can check the Goojet Android app description on a non-official Android Market web version.

Here are some screenshots to show you what it looks like on an Android phone:

Posté dans News | Thursday, March 19th, 2009 |

Wow! Amazing welcome to Goojet on iPhone! After only a few days in the iTunes appstore our application has entered the top three in its category and new signups from the iPhone are skyrocketing.

A huge welcome to all our new iPhone users! We’re keeping a close eye on the feedback we’re seeing in blogs, in the appstore and of course through email and twitter.

We owe a big apology to not only our iPhone users, but to all our users: the impact of this huge number of new signups is a significant drop in the reponsiveness of our service. We know that it can require quite a bit of patience these days.

In the begining of Februrary we’ll roll out an upgrade of our technical backbone that will restore a correct responsiveness of the service. Until then we’ll have to ask you to be patient with us and know that behind the scenes our technical team is working around the clock to prepare the new backbone and do whatever is possible to improve the situation until then.

Thanks for your patience, please keep sending us your feedback, we love them. And enjoy Goojet!

Posté dans News, Updates | Friday, January 23rd, 2009 |

The news came last night: the Goojet iPhone App for iPhones and iPod Touch is now available on iTunes and you can download it (for free of course). It is available both in French and English.

Here is the link to our app on iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=300099731

This new application will allow our many iPhone users (a fast growing population!) to have easier access to the social aspects of Goojet, by for instance allowing much easier access to the messaging features of the platform. Sharing a service is never more than a single click away!
Another feature we’re very excited about is the integration with the iPhone camera. You can now add photos to walls, be it your own wall or your friends’ walls.

If this application is only for iPhone, the main interest of Goojet is also that your friends that are not on iPhone, can be on Goojet with you and you can share goojets or send messages to them too! (Goojet is available on more than 300 phones thanks to the java-based client).

And now some screenshots of this new app:

Posté dans News, Updates | Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 |

We announced last week that we were among the finalists of the Red Herring Global 100 Award, and in fact we are winner of this award!

Guillaume (Goojet’s CEO) came back with this good news from San Diego on FRiday where the conference and the ceremony took place and it is now official and public since today and the mail we received from Red Herring.

The 100 winners were selected from a list of 1800 companies who were all previous finalists or winner of a “local” edition (we were a Red Herring Europe Top 100 winner).

When we look at the list of past award winners that include Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com, and YouTube, we only have one objective : follow in their footsteps

Posté dans News, awards | Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 |

Goojet already won Red Herring Europe 100 award last year and it was a great recognition for the Goojet team. Now we are pleased to announce that Goojet was selected among the finalists for the Red Herring 100 Global. Evaluations are made on both quantitative and qualititative criteria, such as innovation, management, global strategy and ecosystem integration. Were eligibles the companies from America, Asia and Europe that won a local price in the past 3 years.

To be part of such an exclusive liste makes us very happy and it shows well how we have been working since the launch of the beta in June 2008.

2008 was a very good year for Goojet and 2009 starts the same, great!

Posté dans News, awards | Friday, January 16th, 2009 |

The Goojet team wishs you a happy new year 2009. We hope that this new year will me much better than the previous one!

A huge THANKS for your presence and support in 2008. “Rendez-vous” in 2009 for much more mobile web with Goojet!

Posté dans News | Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 |

It’s effective since yesterday : Goojet has signed an agreement with Bouygues Telecom to be promoted on their mobile portal i-mode. It’s for us the first time we have such an agreement with a telco operator. Bouygues Telecom is among the major ones in France and is known to have innovated a lot concerning the mobile Internet so it’s a pleasure for us to be referenced by them. When you look at some other applications that are promoted on i-mode, you can find well known players such as Windows Live Messenger or Google Maps. Not bad to be next to them for a start-up like us!

Thanks to this agreement, we’re happy to welcome on Goojet all the mobile web users from Bouygues Telecom who will discover a new way to access and manage web content on their mobile phones.

Thanks a lot to the Bouygues Telecom team for their trust in Goojet and we hope it is the start of a long partnership with them and why not also the start of a long series of partnerships with French or European telco operators.

If you want more information about this deal, you can read our press release.

Posté dans News, Partnerships | Friday, November 21st, 2008 |