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Updated iPhone app

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Dear Circler,

As you’ll expect, the CircleMe team has been working hard to bring you yet another new improvement: We just released the latest version of our iPhone app! What are the changes that the new iPhone app brings?

  •  Notification Box: You can now track all the activities related to your account directly from the top bar. If you receive a notification, a number will appear showing the number of notifications you have on CircleMe. Once you tap on the “m”, these notifications will be shown

    CircleMe notifications

  • Direct Person-to-Person Suggestions: That’s right, you can now send suggestions to other CircleMe users as well to friends who are not on CircleMe yet!
  • Delete Items from Profile: You no longer need to visit the web version of CircleMe to be able to remove unwanted items from your profile

    Deleting Items from the CircleMe app

  • Social Tagging of Items: You can now add tags to your favorite likes to help other users discover related items
  • Provide Feedback on the App: Love it? Hate it? Do not hesitate to get in touch with us and let us know how you think we could make CircleMe better for you!
  • Reach Score:Wondering what categories you are most influential in? You can find out by going to your profile and clicking on the “reach” score

    Reach Score on iPhone

  • Various Bug Fixes and Improvements: Many tiny improvements that as a whole, certainly deserve to be mentioned 😉

We hope you enjoy this update and that it makes your CircleMe experience much better! And do not hesitate to let us know if you would like to see specific improvements or new features. You can comment on this blog entry or find us on Twitter or Facebook… CircleOn!

What is Planting?

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So what is Planting?

With the launch of our iPhone app in March, we introduced a cool new feature on our site, “Planting”. Some of the community members wanted to find out more about “Planting” so we decided to write a blog entry and explain more about it.

On CircleMe you can collect all the things you like and discover new ones.  So, we thought that it would be very cool if you could add one of your Likes not just on your profile, but also somewhere in the world. For instance, you might discover the best ice cream ever and want to add it as a Like, but not only on your profile: What about placing the like somewhere in the world? What about placing it where that awesome ice-cream parlor is? And so we decided to create “Plants”: The possibility to place things you like somewhere on the map.

What’s the benefit?

First, you get to collect all those things you liked or found interesting somewhere in the world: Imagine you discovered that amazing ice cream whilst visiting a new city… you wouldn’t like to forget where it is, right? 😉

But also, if you are placing interesting likes, others will be able to discover those (that is, unless you want to mark them as private) which means you can also discover other cool “plants” shared by other CircleMe users related to the things you are passionate about.

But… I don’t have an iPhone! No problem: Planting is also available on the web version of CircleMe where you can not only explore Plants, but add your own ones.

Right, so how do I plant?

We’ve created a quick video tutorial on how to plant that you can find below:

We hope it’s useful for you! Are there any other features you would like a video tutorial for? Please let us know by commenting on this blog entry or our Facebook or Twitter pages. And even better! On our CircleMe page on… CirceMe!

James Cook, The Winner of the Best Profile Contest

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Last month we announced the winners of the Best Profile Contest. James Cook was the winner with few more votes that fellow Circler Marlon Alvarado. Since James lives in London, where CircleMe has an office, he visited us to grab a drink and, well… take home his shiny new iPad : – )

James Cook receives his new iPad

It was a pleasure to get to meet James and we had some fun talking about CircleMe and other things such as the unusual amazing weather in London during those days.

James, run with your iPad before Javier from CircleMe does! ; – )

If you didn’t get to participate in this contest, stay tuned because we might organise more fun contests in the future 🙂 In the meantime, Circle On!

You can now invite your Twitter friends on CircleMe!

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Back in March we asked you on our Facebook page how you preferred to invite your friends to join you on new sites like CircleMe. Well, Twitter was the second most popular result just behind invites via Facebook and ahead of invites via email.

Result of CircleMe Poll on how to invite friends

Well, that’s right! Although just days ago we released the option to find and invite  your Yahoo! Mail contacts on CircleMe, we’ve worked hard on it and from today, you can also invite your Twitter friends to join CircleMe!

Finding Twitter friends on CircleMe

To find this new option, you simply have to go to the “Find people” page. Once you click on Find friends for Twitter, you’ll see a screen where you can select the contacts you want to send the invite to.

Selecting Twitter friends on CircleMe

Once you select the friends you want to add, then you simply have to click on Add. Then you’ll be requested access from Twitter for our Twitter app to send the invites… and voilà! You’ve sent the invites to your friends!

We hope you find this useful! And if there is a service that you think we should add to CircleMe to find and invite new friends, do not hesitate to let us know!

Announcing the winners of the Best Profile Contest

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On the 12th of April we announced we were starting the best profile contest, a contest in which you could vote the most inspiring profiles on CircleMe. Well, on April the 30th, the contest came to an end and we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve got the top 10 winners who will get some great prizes.

The top user will get a new iPad, the second and third users will get an Apple TV and the rest of the top 10 users will get some fab CircleMe T-Shirts. Wondering who made it to the top 3 places? These are James Cook from the UK, Marlon Alvarado from Guatemala, and Nicolas Lecointre from France!

Below you can find the full top 10 list and the number of votes they received. As you can see, there was a ferocious fight between the top 2 users, with James taking the victory with a difference of only 51 votes!

  1. James, 819 votes
  2. Marlon, 768 votes
  3. Nicolas, 182 votes
  4. Marc, 76 votes
  5. Rodrigo, 57 votes
  6. Karla, 54 votes
  7. Bryan, 38 votes
  8. Allan, 32 votes
  9. Roberto, 28  votes
  10. Dick, 28 votes

From the CircleMe team, we would like to congratulate these top 10 users for their inspiring profiles and we’d like to let them know that we’ll be contacting you shortly to ask for the address where we should send the prizes.

Thanks everyone for participating! We hope you enjoyed the contest and that you are enjoying CircleMe!

The CircleMe Best Profile Contest

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Top 3 prizes in our Best Profile Contest

We’ve been talking for a long time on Facebook and Twitter about the new game we’ve got going on for our Circlers – The Profile Contest – in which you can vote for those profiles you consider the most inspiring due to their interesting likes, To Do’s, background photo, description…

However, we thought it would be nice to right down to all the details and make it easier for you to participate in “the most inspiring profile” contest too. So here we go! Starting with some simple instructions – we’ll give you the right answers that (we hope) will put light to help you better understand how to participate in our contest 🙂

  • For how long does the contest last?

The competition started on the 13th of April and will end on the 30thof this month at 23:59 BST! (UK time!)

  • Who is eligible to participate?

All CircleMe users can participate in the competition (except for the CircleMe Team, naturally). The only requirement is having a Circleme account.

  • Are there any prizes for the winners?

We have some amazing prizes! Including a new iPad for the 1st position, two AppleTVs for 2nd and 3rd spots and a cool CircleMe T-shirt for each user ranked 4th to 10th.

  • How does it work exactly?

So here’s the deal: You need to get as many votes as possible, so get your friends to vote for you by pressing the green “Vote for this profile” button at the top right part of your profile page. A new window-box will appear, asking them how they would like to vote.

  • How many votes can I get?

You can receive a maximum of two votes per day from one person, IF she/he uses both services available – Twitter and Facebook.

  • Can I vote for my own profile?

For sure you must love your profile, since you’re the one who created it, but hey: it would be rather unfair if you could, right? 😉 So nope, it is not possible to vote for your own profile.

  • How do I get to know my current ranking?

You can find your ranking of the contest in real time by accessing circleme.com/contest

We wish you the best of luck in the contest! Go grab those votes that will lead you to these awesome prizes! And don’t forget to vote for those inspiring profiles out there that you think deserve to be amongst the winners! 🙂

Finding friends via Yahoo! Contacts

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Hi Circlers!

This Monday we’ve got some cool news for those out there who use Yahoo! Mail. As you’ll know, until now you could only invite your friends via Facebook and Gmail. Some days ago we asked our users what their email provider was, and this was the result:

Results of the question about email services

So yes: we worked on it and we’re very happy to announce you can now invite your friends using your Yahoo! Mail account. For this, you need to go to http://circleme.com/users/import and you’ll see the button to invite your contacts on Yahoo! Mail:

Finding friends from Yahoo! Mail

And if you don’t have Yahoo and use Gmail or Facebook, don’t hesitate to get your friends in too! CircleMe is much more fun with friends!

What service would you like us to add next in order to be able to invite friends? Let us know commenting on this blog entry, on Facebook or Twitter!

Users meet-up in Milan

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Last Friday we organized the first meetup in Milan, Italy and we’ve got to say that it was amazing and it did beat all our expectations. We had some 100 users visiting us, which was amazing for us as we could get some very honest feedback directly from our users.

Our guests started to arrive at around 18:30 to the CircleMe office, with some drinks and nibbles waiting for them. We had some fun and chatted about CircleMe amongst other things. Since we had just released our new video, we projected it and it was our little “Cannes festival” 🙂 If you haven’t seen the video yet, check it out!

One of the things that caught the attention of our guests was the foosball table we have in our office. Obviously, we  had to organize a little foosball table tournament on the night!

However, that wasn’t the only competition of the night, as we organized some games and there was a new iPad as a prize!

Something we would have loved to share was a photo of the cake that the patisserie near our office prepared for us. Unfortunately, it was eaten before we had the chance to take a pic!

Many guests stayed until late and at past midnight, it was time for Circlerella our last guests to return home after a fun day where we learned a lot about our guests.

As a fun note, one of our users managed to get a fun pic: It’s our CEO Giuseppe D’Antonio as Party Cleaning Manager. This pic might one day go viral… And you saw it first on our blog 😉 Oh boy!

We do hope you’ll join us in future meetups. Stay tuned on our Twitter account or Facebook page!

CircleMe’s Best Profile, Announcing our New Video and Last.fm integration

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You know what happens when we go quiet for some days. that’s right: It means there’s cool stuff to come! We’d hate to disappoint you, so we made our best to add some great new features to CircleMe and surprise you! Take a look at our fresh updates from CircleMe:

The Best Profile Contest

If you wander around on CircleMe it is rather difficult not to stumble on some amazing user profiles. We thought you might enjoy a nice reward for making your profile the “fairest of them all”, so we prepared some nice gadgets and cool CircleMe T-shirts as prizes for the 10 most inspiring profile, ranging from cool CircleMe T-shirts to an iPad (yes, we’d prefer the T-shirt too!). What you need to do is to play cool and share your profile with your friends so that they vote for you. Then lay back and wait for the votes to increase! 😉

Best Profile Ranking on Thursday just after the start of the contest

Our brand NEW CircleMe Video

As you all know, we’ve been working hard these couple of months to make CircleMe the best place to connect with the things you care about and to people who share your passions. Since we want everybody to be able to make the most out of CircleMe, we created a short video explaining the main features of CircleMe, both on the web and on the iPhone app. Turned out really well, don’t you think?

Add your musical likes from Last.fm

We all know how important music is in your lives, right? Here at CircleMe we also think that you’d love bringing all your likes to CircleMe in an easier way. So it was only fair to help you guys out by adding Last.fm to the list of services from which you can import your interests. Ramble on and rock our world!

Now that April’s secrets are revealed, we would love to hear what you think about our latest updates. Feel free to share them with our team! You can share them with us via Twitter, Facebook, as a comment on our blog or email!

The first ever CircleMe meetup!

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Hi Circlers,

Yesterday we hosted the first ever CircleMe meetup in London and we have to say that it was a great success and that we’re very excited to have met many of our users!

The event took place in Old Street, the “Silicon Roundabout” in London. We met in “Meter”, a new bar just outside the station.

We were meeting at 6PM, and soon enough, some users started to arrive and we started to talk about CircleMe and much more! Soon, there were many of us and we were having a great time.

We gave some cool CircleMe T-shirts to those users who joined us : – )

It was a great occasion for the CircleMe team to get some sincere feedback (we all know drinks foster sincerity 😉 ) and get to hear what works for our users, what doesn’t, and what they would like to see in CircleMe in the future. Certainly, we got a big list with feedback and suggestions to improve both the web version and the mobile app. We’re always on the hunt for new suggestions and feedback, so do not hesitate to share your feedback here or on Facebook or Twitter.

First CircleMe meetup in London. We’re terribly sorry we couldn’t get in the picture to those who left early/arrived late : – (

We continued to have a great time and some 5 hours later, we were still chatting and some even dancing and having a great time.

Some CircleMe users just could’t stop havin fun!

Funnily enough, our launch party coincided with the launch party of another cool service: lightbox. We got talking and sharing ideas : )

Sarp Centel from Lightbox and Giuseppe D’Antonio from CircleMe share some feedback

Overall, this first CircleMe meetup was a great success and we just can’t wait to organize new ones in the near future to get feedback from our users, and not only from the UK! For starters, you can count with a CircleMe users meetup in Milan, Italy, and more should come after that! Stay tuned on our Facebook page and Twitter!