With a short notice we got invited to attend the annual "Branschdag" at KTH - Stockholm University. It's taking place on Wednesday 1st this week, and there's an interesting list of exhibiting busienesses and lectures - Google, Spotify, Qbrick etc.

It's certainly great to get recognised by future talent, and obviously something we want to be part of.

Hopefully we'll see you there!

Tags: yooba studio, spotify, google, medieteknikdagen

In the latest version of Yooba Studio, we've added the ability to optimize the look of text fields. With a text field selected, have a peek at the text panel. Under Advanced text settings, you can now choose to optimze the text field for animation or for readability.

Optimize for animation creates a smooth text that will look good in animations. This is the setting that all text fields had in earlier versions, and works good if your text is fairly large, or if you intend to animate it.

Optimize for readability on the other hand, will give your text sharper edges which will make it easier to read. Especially when using a small font size, this can really improve the look of your texts. This mode is ideal for static texts that are not animated.

Tags: text, new release, features

Thanks to everyone who made it to our stand at Webbdagarna. Now is the time when we're actually starting to get more public with our service, and the response has been overwhelming. The times are in general quite exciting, though very hard obviously. But exciting, as influenced by a positive spirit. I think all of us, in one way or another, are affected by the current economical climate, but generally you see a really inspirational attitude towards the challenges we're all forcing.

What's great is also the creativeness that seems to be growing along various fields. Yes, we need to be focused on results, with very pragmatic vision on our work. But that does not exclude creativity. It's great to experience fantastic creativity amongst peers, and I think it (the creativity) is (in general) related to a certain state of mind. And the experience from our latest meetings are that people are open for new ideas.

Apart from being a poor student, I haven't experienced a recession in my professional life. With that perspective, I have to admit that when I some six months ago read about articles on how to handle a recession, I was a bit skeptical. I'm thinking about that this is the time to achieve for market shares etc... Basically that a recession could be about possibilities. So now is the time for the smart and strong ideas, which will take you through these times. And obviously to the next level in the future.

Nice to meet you all! 

Tags: webbdagarna 2009, yooba, recession, new technology

For anyone in Stockholm next week, we'll be exhibiting at Webbdagarna on 18-19 March. The agenda looks really interesting and the theme on new opportunities on the web certainly fits us like a glove.

We'll hope to see you there!

Tags: yooba studio, webbdagarna

For those of you not familiar with EPIServer, it's a web content management system, which makes it easy to create and update content on a web site. The content that can be managed in the system (and in all other content management systems) is mainly static, text and images basically. We attended the EPIServer Day to present the new possibilities to integrate Yooba Studio into EPIServer, to enable management of dynamic flash content as well.

Most of the people we met at EPIServer Day were heavy users of content management systems, but when we asked them how they manage their flash content, the reply was that - well they just didn't. Enter Yooba Studio! Yooba Studio integrates into EPIServer, and makes updating your animated content easy, from inside of your regular CMS system. Here's how it's done:

When editing a page in EPIServer, click on the Yooba icon. From a list you can now choose which project to insert to the page.

The project is added to your page among the other content:

If you want to edit the project that you added to the page, click on the Yooba.com tab, where you'll find shortcuts to your Yooba account. Click on Published projects to automatically log in to your Yooba account and edit your project as you like.

Have a look at the box in the lower half of the above image. By simply dragging assets (or even folders) from EPIServer's File management and dropping them on this box, the assets will be added to your Yooba Library. This means that the images and other content that you've uploaded in EPIServer is easily accessible in Yooba Studio as well.

That was a quick review of some of the features. It is also possible to add projects to your page templates, schedule your added projects, and more. This integration between EPIServer and Yooba Studio makes it easy to manage your whole website in the same place. A workflow that, judged by the feedback we recieved at EPIServer Day, is really awaited!

Sharepoint? - Anyone?

Tags: episerver, yooba studio, cms, episerverdagen

Before heading off to EPIServerdagen, we released an updated version of Yooba Studio. The ability to use gradient fills on shapes that we've talked about earlier is one of the new features. We have also made some quite big improvements in the backoffice system, that makes managing your saved and published projects easier. Log in to your Yooba account to check it out!

As usual, were interested in getting feedback about your experience. While working in Yooba Studio, all you have to do is open the feedback window in the top right corner and wish for anything you want, it's almost like writing to Santa! And believe me when I say that your feedback is important when we deceide what features to get into the upcoming releases.

Tags: yooba studio, studio, new release, gradient

We're back today, well some of us at least. We were exhibiting at EPIServerdagen in Stockholm yesterday. It was a great success - good feedback from every corner. Obviously these type of seminar based events tends to be quite crammed during the breaks with the result that you're not able to reach out to everyone. 

If we missed you - please get in touch and we'll update you on the possibilities that Yooba Studio provides you.

Nice to meet you all!

Tags: yooba studio, episerverdagen, cms, flash

For anyone being in Stockholm on the 10-11 March, we'll be attending the annual "EPIServerdagen". This is where we actually are going to present the new possibilities to integrate Yooba Studio to EPIServer's CMS. This partnership is part of our development on fascilitating management of web content. 

Hopefully we'll see you there!

Ps. Register here.

Update; get Swedish press release here!

Tags: episerverdagen 2009, yooba studio, cms, flash