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.

During our presence in the USA we’ve decided to open our first Goojet Store :

 Ok, ok, it’s just a joke, but why not in the future ?

Marc Rougier et Guillaume Decugis (respectively President and CEO of Goojet) are currently in San Francisco to present Goojet at two major American Conference and use this opportunity to meet American partners, investors, journalists etc…

The first one is Under The Radar : Mobility and is taking place today (November, 12th) in San Francisco. 32 start-ups in the mobile business will present what they’re doing in front of journalists, investors, high executives from tech companies… All these start-ups have been tested and validated by the experienced Under the Radar team what gives a huge value to be among the lucky selected companies. Previous companies that presented during an Under The Radar event are some like Flickr, iLike or Admob… not so bad for Goojet to be there isn’t it ?

The second one is called Euro Tech Showcase and will be held in San Francisco on November 18-19. The idea of the conference is to have in the same place the most innovative and interesting start-ups from the two side of the atlantic : 80 startups from the US and 50 from Europe were invited to speak. Goojet is one of them ! And in “Bonus” each start-up gets five one to one meetings with high executivesfrom bug tech american companies such as Google,Nokia, HP etc…

This “US Trip” for Goojet is a sign we give : after 6 months of public beta testing, Goojet (the company AND the product) is now ready to enter in a new development phase… That’s why its was the good timing also to publish a new Press Release concerning this International Recognition of Goojet.

Goojet keeps on progressing and offers you a release with 2 huge improvements especially on the mobile side: now, you can put an infinite number of goojets in your homepage and you are also able to search and add goojets directly from your mobile phone!

So, forget difficult choices to pick only 7 goojets for your first page or to organize your goojets in folders, etc… Now you can have directly on the first page as many goojets as you want! Obviously folders still exist but it’s a “power user” function: to send several goojets to friends at once, or for the order maniacs we love

A small preview of this new version :

The 3 permanent icons at the top let you easily reach your profile, our suggestions and the useful new search function. We know you have been waiting for it for a long time! Because there will always be goojets you won’t have in your mobile when you’ll need it, you are now able to search and add it in one click only.

Of course, we’re also bringing with this update some other stuff: some (more and more rare) bugs fixes, we’ve improved the design of the catalogue and of some goojets (gallery and Flickr), the invitation by adding your address book is available again…

We released this week a new version of Goojet with some enhancements :

Major improvements

• Anonymous portal access : it is now possible to test and use Goojet on the web on the PC without having to be registered to the service. Everything is not accessible of course (parts of Goojet such as contacts, messages, comments on notes or walls are disabled, no creation of Goojet etc…). To test Goojet without registration, it’s here.
• Blackberry Runtime : finally a dedicated version of Goojet for the Blackberry handsets. After lots of requests from users (and lot of work from our side) we are happy to propose Goojet to people with a Blackberry. With this improvement, we now support Blackberry, Iphone and more 400 java-based handsets so that almost everyone can use Gooejt on its phone !

Miscellaneous :

• Mail notifications can now be managed on goojet.com
• Much more goojets coming from partners
• Search Engine Optimization for the goojets
• Various text changes on the portal and on window design
• Search for goojets has been improved a lot
• Goojets can now be shared to non-registered users
• Various debugging of course
• (And also lots of differents things improved in our back office that you cannot see : stats, content manager, “Goojy”etc…)

For sure, Goojet doesn’t rest this summer. A new partnership, with Nomao, had been recently concluded. It’s already the third in the French version, but this time, the English version is available.

Nomao is a search engine of best places and events around you which references those good addresses we recommend to our good friends : “the community guide of the best places and events” as restaurants, travel, sports, culture, music, shopping…

The plus of this partnership: as Goojet, Nomao’s users can create content: recommend, appreciate and share good addresses.

The goojet Nomao will be very usefull to find an address at the last moment when you are out. Improvise your activities being sure you’ll always find something fun to do. Everything is in Nomao otherwise you simply add it.

We are proud to count this goojet in our catalogue, giving it a funnier touch. We also welcome active members of Nomao, now they can use Nomao on their mobile and discover all the other goojets of our website.

Try it and, as usual, give us your comments, positive or not.

We just put on line a new version which brings lots of novelties and modifications. Here is the list, almost exhaustive, of the changes.

As you’ll see in this list, most of them are our answers to your feedback (by email, via Goojy, on the forum, here on the blog or via twitter), so keep on giving us the same again! If you don’t see in this list what you absolutely need on Goojet, it will surely be released the next time. Anyway tell it us in a comment !

The new features :

Before you log in :

• A new homepage which better presents and explains Goojet when you visit the site
• You now log in with your mail or you cell number (obviously, your old login still works too)
• A new inscription formular, easier and more functional

On Goojet web portal :

• The catalogue presentation has been reviewed : more goojets, less text.
• It’s now possible to import your contacts from Linked In or from your email address book
• New notification emails
• New goojets, by ourselves or made with partners
• Add of ‘about’ in all goojet’s menu
• Add of an action menu at the bottom of each open goojet’s window on the web
• The flash animation in bottom right-hand corner has been removed
• The guided tour has been reduced by half and symplified
• A new design for the phone on the website
• Bugs in some mobile site (such as Youtube or Facebook) have been fixed
• Text changes to make Goojet clearer
• Some improved goojets (such as Weather or RSS feed)

On your mobile :

• It’s now possible to import your address book from your mobile
• Faster browsing
• An improved graphical interface
• Add of tooltips explaining access keys
• Changed and clarified menus
• Iphone 2.0 supported
• More and more supported cells
• Before the download, we communicate more clearly on which mobile phones we support

Less visible but important too :

• New version of Goojy
• Better management of partners’ goojets
• Huge work on the natural referencing of Goojet
• Unsubscribing is more simple

Goojet team is based in two cities in France : in Toulouse where everything started and where the development is done and in Paris for everything concerning Marketing and Partnerships.

When the sun is shining, during a lunch break, have a look at what the team is doing…

The idea came suddenly and one hour and two trials after, it was done ! The purpose of this “lipdub” was actually not to do better than existing ones (you can see some on the Office Lipdub page) but just to have some fun and to show people we care (friends, you, our community etc…) that we have real fun working at Goojet !

It is available since a few days but we had to test it and to verify that everything was ok before making any communication concerning it. It is now ok : for all of you that have an Iphone (or an Ipod Touch but some communication tools such as SMS, calls etc… won’t run on it), we have a specific version of Goojet. It is not a java-based application of course (no java on Iphone) but a version that runs in the Iphone browser.

The only thing you need is to go to www.goojet.com on your Iphone.

No more waiting, here are some screenshots of the Iphone version of Goojet.

Navigation with goojets :

Examples of goojets :

Contact list and messages :

Some of you could ask where is the interest of an Iphone version of Goojet :
- Goojet it is having web services on a mobile phone, but it is also the sharing, the collaborative use of the services. With such possibilities, it is clera that we need Goojet to be usable on any kind of phone. Because if you want to use it with your friends, you don’t have to care about what phone he uses.

- The goojets’ catalog, the fact that everything is also usable on the web, the goojet sharing, the event-driven goojets etc… all these feature concerning the event and the community parts of Goojet are new, whatever the phone is, so we are sure we bring some value to the Iphones.
This Iphone version still needs some improvements. Do not hesitate to comment it, to tell us what you don’t like, what we have to improve etc…

Since the launch of Goojet last thursday, we got some interesting feedback and comments from the blogs. We would like to thank here all the people that have posted something on their blogs about us !

Do not hesitate to have a look at these articles !

In English :

• ReadWriteWeb
• Techcrunch UK
• The Next Web
• Widgetslab
• Makeusof
• Msearchgroove

In French

• Geekement Correct (video)
  
• Intruders TV (video)
  
• Webdeux
• Services Mobiles
• Accessoweb
• Mashable
• Jean-Marie Gall
• Petit Deviendra Grand
• Exotech
• Fabien Pretre
• Frederic Martin
• Sylvain Kalache
• Smaxblog

In other languages

• Nel-Web (in Italian)
• Visualbeta (in Spanish)
  
• What’s New (in Spanish)
  

And logically, some team members from Goojet are blogging :

• Sylvain (in English)
• Vincent (in English)
• Cédric

P.S : if you have blogged about us but you’re not in the list, leave a comment !