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An exciting new update for the CircleMe app

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We’ve been really busy making sure that the CircleMe app is better than ever. So today we are going to run through some of the features and improvements in the new version of the app.

What are the changes?

  • First of all, it’s quicker than ever to sign up and get started adding your likes, as we have included the ability to sign up with Facebook. Just tap ‘Sign Up with Facebook’ and you’ll be taken to the Facebook app where you are just a press of ‘OK’ away from signing up with CircleMe.

Signing up with Facebook

  • One of the coolest new features is browsing plants on a map straight from the app. This is another great feature of the CircleMe.com site that we have added to the app, and it helps you discover even more likes than before!
Plants on a map

Viewing plants on a map

  • You can now view your entire inbox and messages from within the app, so get suggesting Likes to other CircleMe users!

App inbox

  • Not sure who to add to your Trusted network? Well now you can find a list of users you might find interesting right from the CircleMe app! This list shows all like minded people on CircleMe, and trusting them will mean you’ll find even more exciting things to Like.

List of like minded users

  • Stories are now displayed right in the app, no need to open the link in Safari. Our new integrated browser means that reading some of the interesting stories and videos posted on CircleMe is easy to do, just tap!
  • Forgotten your password? D’oh! Don’t worry, just tap ‘Forgot password?’ when signing in and we’ll send you an email letting you reset your password to something a little more memorable.
  • Someone you Trust just added a picture? Or maybe a story? Well now you can vote on almost anything that happens on CircleMe.
  • Little bit confused about how to get started using the app? We’ve included a helpful video that explains just what CircleMe is about when you first sign up.
  • Along with all these great new features, there are lots of smaller bug fixes and improvements to make sure that the CircleMe app is better than ever!

If you have any suggestions about what we should include in the next update, or anything else to do with CircleMe  you can share it with us by commenting on this post, or by contacting us through our Twitter account or Facebook page!

– James Cook

CircleMe Summer Marketing Intern

Using the neighborhoods feature

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One of the best kept secrets of our app is the awesome neighborhoods feature. Not sure what it is? Well, if you want to stay notified about all of the plants in a location, you can track the neighborhood on CircleMe. This means that whenever anybody plants something publicly you will automatically see them in your activity feed. It’s a great way to find out more about the city or town you live in.

So how can you start tracking the neighborhoods that matter to you? Well first of all you’ll need the CircleMe iPhone app. Now just visit the Explore page  and tap on ‘Planted’. If you have Location Services enabled the app will automatically display the Plants nearest to you. Scroll down the list of plants and at the bottom of the page you’ll see a button labelled ‘Track this neighborhood’ . Now staying in touch with all the activity near you is just a tap away 🙂

Tracking a neighborhood

Tracking a neighborhood using the CircleMe app

You can find a list of all your tracked neighborhoods from the Account page. Here you can delete any locations you aren’t interested in any longer and even add new locations.

Viewing a list of tracked neighborhoods

How to view a list of all your tracked neighborhoods

If you have any questions about the neighborhood feature, or anything else to do with CircleMe  you can ask us by commenting on this post, or by contacting us through our Twitter account or Facebook page!

– James Cook

CircleMe Summer Marketing Intern

Get more from your likes with Bompiani Editori

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CircleMe is all about interests, passions, likes… However, it’s not just about collecting them: It’s about getting more from these likes and being able to enjoy them.

What do we mean by that? It might be enjoying interesting conversations, or finding out about interesting articles related to your likes. Also browsing photos, watching videos, and being able to listen to samples of artists you discover on CircleMe.

But we don’t want to stop there. We want to give you more about what you care about the most. For this reason, we’ve started to work with Bompiani Editori to bring you free chapters of books related to your likes! The first books you’ll be able to enjoy are: “Amy Ma Figlia” by Mitch Winehouse and “L’Amore È La Cura” by Elton John.

Amy WinehouseElton John

How does it work? When you go to the page of either Amy Winehouse or Elton John, on the top right corner you will see a notice indicating that you can download the book. During the next months we’ll be working hard to help you enjoy your likes more, so stay tuned for more news!

Screenshot

Please not that this goodie is currently available to Italian users only. If you’re having problems downloading any of the books, please send an email to support@circleme.com

A new member of the CircleMe team!

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Hi, it’s Javier from the Marketing Team,

As the CircleMe community expands and we keep on adding cool new features, the CircleMe team is growing with talented people that strive to create a great experience for all Circlers. On the other hand, we pride ourselves on caring about and listening to the CircleMe community. So it is a great pleasure for us to announce that our latest addition to the CircleMe team also happens to be a great CircleMe user: James Cook.

James just joined the CircleMe team as a Summer Intern based in our London office. He is very enthusiastic and looks forward to helping grow the CircleMe community and improve the CircleMe experience. But what better than having James Cook tell us a bit more about himself?

James Cook

Our new Summer Marketing Intern: James Cook

“As you can see from my CircleMe profile I’m a real music lover, with 613 likes for music alone. My 3 favorite likes on the site are Led Zeppelin, The Stone Roses and Jimi Hendrix. I’ve been a CircleMe user for a long time, joining when the site was invite-only back in October 2011, so it is a real pleasure to be involved with bringing CircleMe to new users.

For the next few months I’ll be writing blog posts and keeping our Twitter and Facebook accounts up to date with all the latest news. I’ll also try to do my best for the the CircleMe community so I’d really like to hear from you all about your experiences with the site, and also any improvements you may have in mind. You can send me a message through my CircleMe profile. If you have any questions at all please let me know and I’ll be super-happy to answer them. I look forward to talking to you all!”

James Cook's CircleMe Profile

My CircleMe Profile

All roads lead to the CircleMe meet up in Rome

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After the great success of the meet ups in London and Milan, we decided to say ‘Hi’ to our users in Rome! We love these occasions as it gives us a chance to chat to lots of different Circlers, get some great feedback, and give out some T shirts of course 🙂

Casa Del Jazz

The venue for the meet up, the Casa Del Jazz, Rome

The venue we met at was the brilliant Casa Del Jazz, everyone started to meet up at 7pm and we got talking about the site, about the venue, about anything! One CircleMe user was so excited about the event that he arrived half an hour early! As well as this, 2 of our lovely users drove all the way from Pisa to attend, which is over a 3 hour drive!

CircleMe users at the Rome meet up

As you can see, everyone had a great time!

CircleMe Users

CircleMe users enjoying the Rome meet up

This was a great chance for users to meet some of the other members of CircleMe, and we certainly enjoyed chatting with everyone. Our CEO Giuseppe D’Antonio and office manager Elena Ciampella helped organize the event, so they had the pleasure of handing out T shirts! Along with the immensely popular CircleMe T shirts, we also had some fantastic goody bags to give out from JazzIt, whom we arranged the meet up with. Every CircleMe user who turned up got a magazine and a cool jazz CD, thanks guys! After the meet up we went on to get something to eat, eventually saying ‘Goodbye’ around 2am!

Elena hands out a T Shirt

Elena handing out T shirts : – )

We are all looking forward to the Paris meet up on the 18th! In the future we are looking to organise meet ups based around your likes, can you guess the theme of this one? Yup, it was jazz music! Would you like a CircleMe meet up near where you live? Well why not get in touch and let us know? As usual, you can let us know by commenting on this post, or by contacting us through our Twitter account or Facebook page!

Introducing the new activity page!

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By now you might already know the drill: When the CircleMe team goes silent, it means we’re working hard at improving CircleMe and launching new features, and now is one of those times! We’ve really excited to announce the launch of the new activity page!

For a while now we have wanted a way to show you all the great activity related to your likes as well as the activity of your trusted friends. Well, today we released the brand new activity page, and it has some great new features we really hope you’ll enjoy.

Brand new visual style

The new activity page makes it easier than ever for you to discover new likes and users on the site. Now we show you a cascade of interesting content, meaning that CircleMe looks better than ever. We also group activity stories together under each item, meaning that the site is easier to read than ever before, and you can now choose the category of the items for which you want to follow the activity.

The new activity page shows activity in the cascade-style

The new “Everyone’s” Feed

One of the most exciting new features of the new activity page is this very special feed of everything that is happening on CircleMe. Now by clicking on the “Everyone’s” option you will be able to see updates from every user. You will also be able to select the category of the latest activity you want to follow. Although we just launched this feature, we are already finding this a great way to discover new likes! 🙂

You can now check the latest activity on CircleMe by all users on all items! And filter by category : – )

You might have seen this cascade of likes on our homepage… now you can also access it when you are logged in, and like new things and instantly mark them as To Do’s.

You can now access the latest likes even when you’re logged in!

Social updates box

Another great new feature is this new box to the left of the activity page. We now show you some users you might want to trust, along with who your existing friends are trusting. This makes it really easy to find interesting new users on CircleMe.

Social Activity Box

We really hope this changes help you have a better CircleMe experience and, as per usual, if you have any feedback, suggestions or comments, do not hesitate to comment on this blog, contact us on Twitter or Facebook or send us an email to info@circleme.com 🙂

What a day! We were on Smashing Magazine and won the AppCircus London!

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Yesterday was a great day for CircleMe as we were featured on Smashing Magazine and won the Appcircus London edition, which qualifies us for the Mobile Premier Awards taking place in Barcelona during the Mobile World Congress 2013!

We are featured on Smashing Magazine

Yesterday afternoon we found out that we were featured by the popular (probably the most popular!) graphic design blog Smashingmagazine as an example of good design:

CircleMe on SmashingMagazine

We won the Appcircus London edition

Later on, our founder Erik Lumer was presenting our CircleMe app at the AppCircus, taking place in the Google Campus London. We were one of the lucky 10 Apps that were pre-selected and we were lucky enough to take the first place, which made us the best app in London according to AppCircus’ judges!

The judges were:

  • Simon Cross, Engineer, Facebook London.
  • Paul Sawers, Apps & Media Editor at The Next Web.
  • Daniel Appelquist, Head of Product Management for BlueVia.
  • Limvirak Chea, Director Business Development Europe & Middle East, InMobi.
  • Sid Thekkepat, Associate of m8 Capital.

AppCircus in Google Campus, image by https://twitter.com/#!/mtrends

Erik Lumer at Appcircus London, image by https://twitter.com/#!/ketan

Erik only had few minutes, but we recorded this (rather “shaky”) video in case you were curious to check it out!

There were some amazing apps presenting. These were the 10 apps selected by the judges:

Free first aid app bringing life-saving skills into your hands, featuring animated content, interactive quizzes, and videos. Check out their  video.

CircleMe is the social network that connects you to the things you love and to people around the world who share your interests. Demo video

Pilot Uni PPL is the app that makes you a real pilot. Pilot Uni interactively walks you through all essential scenarios needed to fly a  small aircraft.Demo Video

The app assesses your vision through a series of simple tests tailored by professional opticians and makes recommendations based on your results. More info here

Explore the Curzon Cinema for memories, from snogging in the back row, to the bomb that exploded outside the front entrance in 1941, to celebrate their centenary this year. Videohere

Shhmooze helps you make smart connections so you can have fantastic face-to-face meetings. Video here

Social media mobile apps for engaging the public with police. 500 officers & staff use the app for quick real time updates, compare police activities with monthly crime etc- more info here

A Midsummer Night’s Dream follows the plot of the original play closely but with a short rhyming text. Fully interactive, illustrations, lots of puzzles and riddles, bilingual English/Spanish, voice recording and much more…

Learn the words: Animals is developed under the educational concept of ‘learning by doing’ with the purpose to encouraging a creative play. More here

Read. Write. Share. Movellas is a social community platform for young readers and writers. Movellas works on  iOS and Android, with 1000s of free stories to be discovered. Watch the video here

So overall, it was a great day which motivates us to keep on working hard on CircleMe! Hopefully more blog entries like this coming soon 🙂

Announcing CircleMe User Meet-ups in Rome and Paris!

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If you follow this blog, you’ll know that some months ago, we organized two great CircleMe users’ meetups. The first one took place near our offices in London, whereas the second took place in our HQ in Milan. As these were great fun and we really enjoyed meeting our users, we’ve decided to organize two more CircleMe users’ meetups in two beautiful cities: Rome and Paris!

First CircleMe meetup in London

Rome

You can read all about the Rome meet-up here!

When we organised the meet-up in Milan, we realised that many of our users in Rome would have loved to attend, but it was too far 😦 So, we decided to organize a meet-up for them too! The meet-up in Rome will take place on the 9th of July. Are you interestested? Please email elena@cascaad.com to get the address of the place where we’ll be meeting!

Paris

After the UK and Italy, France will be the third destination for our CircleMe meet-up! And having one of our biggest communities in France, we’re sure it will be a great success! This meet-up will take place in Paris on the 18th of July, 6:00 pm at:

19, avenue Victoria 75001 Paris
métro Châtelet (sortie Théâtre du Châtelet)

Why do we organise these meet-ups?

When we work on improving CircleMe, we don’t think about numbers: We work hard to create something great for people like you. For this reason, getting to know our real users is very important to us: We want to learn how you think we could improve CircleMe, but also get to know who our users are, which means that we might end up talking about anything like music, sports, politics… or anything you are passionate about! Obviously, there is no fee to attend the meet-up or anything like that! In fact, the earlier you join us, the more likely we’ll treat you to a drink 😉

If you are near Rome and Paris during those dates, please join us! It will be real fun!!

The CircleMe team is hiring!

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That’s right! The CircleMe team is looking for no less than 3 talented individuals to join the CircleMe team as we work hard to make CircleMe more awesome! Would you like to be part of this growing team? Don’t hesitate to apply!

The open positions:

Web Front-End Engineer

Unsurprisingly, CircleMe is not built magically but it requires a lot of talent, passion and hard work! We are looking for a talented web front-end engineer to evolve our CircleMe web application. If it sounds like the right challenge for you, get ready to enjoy “la bella Start-up vita” in CircleMe’s headquarters in Milano, Italy. We work 100% in English, so no need to worry about speaking Italian! (Besides “Café”, “Birra”, “Bistecca” and so on 😉

Find more about this position here

This position is based in Milan, Italy

Summer Marketing Intern

What could be better than interning for a cool and growing Social Network that connects people to the things they care about? Join the CircleMe team in our cool offices in London’s TechHub, in Google Campus, where you’ll gain working experience in Social Media, email marketing and more!

Find more about this position here

This position is based in London, UK

Junior Content Manager

People love collecting and discovering new likes on CircleMe, but hey! It takes a lot of time and dedication to make sure the content on our site is up to the standard our users deserve when they collect and discover. If you’re passionate about content and would love to help us enchant our users with great content, this sounds like the right position for you!

Find more about this position here

This position is based in Milan, Italy

And do not forget that you can always find all our job opportunities here

Visit the CircleMe team tomorrow in Brescia and Luxembourg!

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Dear Circlers!

Tomorrow, 19th of June, will be a busy day for the CircleMe team as we’ll be attending two different events in different parts of Europe 🙂

Our CEO Giuseppe D’Antonio will be speaking about CircleMe and the creation of a social brand at the Pane, Web e Salame event. This event will take place in Brescia at 15:20 CET time.

A bit earlier, our Marketing Manager Javier Galán will be speaking about CircleMe at the ICT Spring Europe in Luxembourg at 13:30 CET time.

So if you are near Brescia or Luxembourg and are attending any of these events, do not hesitate to let us know and pop by to say hi and let us grab you a coffee! You can find Giuseppe at @giudantonio and Javier at @javiergalan

We will update our blog with future speaking events, but do not hesitate to also find us on Facebook or Twitter for the latest news and updates!