It’s time we speak French, mais oui!

Oh yes, we are on a roll!

Just ten days after releasing the Italian version of CircleMe (web), today we released our first Android version of the app in French: fantastique!

Get it here and let us know your feedback.

CircleMe in French We are very excited to get this version out, as French users are the fourth community on CircleMe, in terms of registered users. Furthermore, the gallic community has always been really supportive of CircleMe, since launch in 2012, and from the very early days we always received excellent and constructive feedback from the many early adopters from such wonderful region of the world.

Besides the French language, the new version of Android comes also with some nice features, including the Universal Post action, which we’ll tell you more about in a different blog post. We have done also quite a bit of work to render the app quicker in loading content, and more stable (avoiding some crashes we’ve seen occurring in the last weeks).

We trust you’ll love our new Android app. Now go and get it… “allez y!” (You can download it now herehttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cascaad.circleme&hl=en)

Merci et à bientôt!

#bewhatyoulike

The Interests Calendar goes Mobile

Our web users loved it, and so we brought it to mobile! After a great reception by our community, our Personal Interests Calendar lands today on both our Android and iOS apps with a full set of features, and a cool & easy user experience.

Ready to never miss again an event you care about? Happy to have in your pocket a calendar which shows you events only related with the things you are passionate about? From today you absolutely can! Download your new Android app here or your iOS/iPhone app here and start planning your nights out!

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The Personal Interests Calendar for mobile comes also with a great set of features, including reminder settings and ‘invite your friend‘ features.

To start enjoying this great feature by CircleMe, is very simple. Just access the app, do some Likes or ToDo’s of topics you have an interest in, and then visit our Calendar section of the app (you will find it in the Menu icon – top-right corner for Android and left for iOS). We are confident that with 60,000+ events for more than 5,500 locations around the globe, you could find some event worth attending.

We hope you’ll enjoy our Personal Interests Calendar. Send us news as soon as you discover an interesting event to attend, thanks to CircleMe!

#bewhatyoulike – especially on the go!

 

….and if you have an Android tablet, here is how it would look like! Nice uh? 😉

CircleMe Calendar on Tablet

It’s CircleMe TRIVIA time!

On CircleMe we have thousands of very passionate people, about any topic you can think of. Well, with the summer time and a little bit of extra time free, we thought to throw in a little fun TRIVIA game for all our passionate users (and anyone else, actually).

You can play immediately here: http://circleme.com/trivia (see some rules below the picture)

Are you a guru on a specific topic? Do you feel no one is as passionate as you about something? Show us “you can walk the walk”! Challenge yourself with the first 10 quizzes we launched today. Prove you are the GURU and rank #1 on our score list. Choose from topics such as Star Wars, Daft Punk, Quentin Tarantino, great movie directors, Game of Thrones, the Football World Cup, and many others. We will also upload new trivia quizzes based on your suggestions (tell us what you’d like to see by writing to us at support [at] circleme dot com, or using the suggest button on the CircleMe Trivia page).

CircleMe Trivia

Anyone can play CircleMe Trivia. You do not need to be registered to CircleMe. If you then want to be ranked against other users, or if you want to challenge your friends, then you can SignUp (in less than 1 minute!).

Note few more things on the Trivia game:

1) The score will be calculated based on the % of correct answers you will give (over the total) and also considering the time factor (we just want to make sure you don’t go on Wikipedia to find out every answer ;-p).

2) You can play one specific quiz only once. Since we show the answers, wouldn’t be smart to make you play twice, would it?

3) Rankings will be updated always in real-time so you can always check on how you are doing vs your friends. Make sure you spread the word and see who is the real “guru” of a specific topic.

We will be updating the quizzes and introducing new ones weekly, so keep on checking the page. Even if you don’t do well on the first trivia quizzes, you’ll be able to catch up in a future one, no worries.

So, ready to discover if you are a GURU at any topic, or you’re just a “wanna be”? Go now, play, and challenge your friendshttp://circleme.com/trivia

#bewhatyoulike and #havefun!

New summer re-styling for our blog

Let’s make it short and sweet, shall we?

This summer we wanted to get in a “new dress”, summery and light, perfect for the season. So here it is: our new blog re-styling is live and we love it.

After evaluating few cool options, we thought this one was the best for us. Clean, content focused and with useful links just there ready for you to click on. The re-styling comes also as a natural progression on all the design work we did on web and mobile apps. Hope you like the directions we have taken.

Finally, if you are passionate about “DESIGN” topics, what are you waiting for? Visit our interest page dedicated to that: http://circleme.com/items/design–12

All about the interest of "design"

All about the interest of “design”

That’s it folks, short and sweet. Time to enjoy the weekend, always remembering to #bewhatyoulike!

 

Don’t miss FIFA WC2014 matches!

Today the much awaited Fifa World Cup 2014 starts, and CircleMe will make its part in making sure you enjoy it to the fullest.

If you use our CircleMe Calendar, and as long as you Like or ToDo any of the WC2014 football teams, or the interests of FIFA WC2014 or Football, you will find all the games nicely pre-filled in the calendar grid. Nice, uh?

Fifa WC2014 on CircleMe

The calendar will look like this:

CircleMe Calendar for the WC2014

So, if you have not tried our Calendar feature, this is the best moment to start using it. You will be impressed.

In short… for the World Cup 2014, we’ll do all the work – you just need to wear your favorite team jersey, and start cheering!

#bewhatyoulike and enjoy the World Cup 2014!

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CircleMe lands on Android Tablet

We heard you when you asked for a better way to enjoy the millions of interest-pages on CircleMe as you chill on the couch, you chat with friends at home, or you just wake up in the morning and you prefer to read a bit in bed before getting up.

Well, from today, you have one more awesome way to use CircleMe and stay up to date with all your interests: since minutes ago, the CircleMe Tablet version for Android is live on the Google Play storehttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cascaad.circleme

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Firstly, we worked obsessively on the user-interface and every possible detail in respects to design and user-experience, trying to deliver the slickest and sexiest design for a personalized content delivery app. Furthermore, the app was developed considering the content-consumption experience paramount. For more than 1 million passions now you can enjoy news, videos, pictures, audio samples and users’ conversations, without ever leaving the CircleMe app.

Here below a couple of sample screenshots of our content-rich pages (i.e., Updates Feed and Discover All Feed) – we will let you discover all the rest of the app.

 CircleMe Updates Feed

 

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Time to try it out now! We’ll be looking forward to hear from you after you give it a run. Get it now on the Google Play Store.

Always… and on whichever device > #bewhatyoulike !

 

CircleMe 2nd Generation – BOOM!

When going to http://circleme.com this morning, you’ll think you are still in bed… dreaming. Yes! That’s how cool the new look and feel of CircleMe is!

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As you can tell, we are very excited to announce today the launch of CircleMe 2nd Generation. The new CircleMe web app features a full-fledged adaptive/responsive design architecture, an updated graphic interface and the new (awesome) feature ‘CircleMe Calendar’, which allows users to visualize all the events related to their passions in a personalized agenda.

With over 1 million items in the database divided into topics, from “Music” to “Movies”, from “Books” to Heroes”, 200,000 categories, more than 1,000 daily posts from 6,500 different sources, and now also more that 55,000 events for at least 4500 different locations, we think you’ll be impressed about all the content related to your personal interests that you can find on our platform.

CircleMe Calendar

When we said we want you to enjoy your passions more in real life, we were NOT kidding. With CircleMe Calendar, you will get a calendar pre-filled with all the events (closest to you) that more closely reflect your passions and interests.

CircleMe Calendar

You just have to “Like” or “ToDo” an item such as an artist, a rock band, an upcoming movie or a particular food or wine, to find in your CircleMe Calendar the “vernissage”, the music festival, the food or wine tasting, the “première” of an opera or the complete schedule of the matches of your beloved sports team, without bothering to browse other sources. This feature allows the user from learning more about the event, all the way to book or reserve for specific occasions. As of today, the calendar has already more than 55,000 events in 4,500 location, all  ready to be discovered by CircleMe’s users.

Enough said. We hope you’ll try the new CircleMe immediately, and cannot wait to hear your feedback and how to make it even more awesome!

Now time to check it outhttp://circleme.com

#bewhatyoulike – always and everywhere!

 

Our first million (passions)!

Today marks an important milestone for CircleMe: 1 Million passions expressed by our users! We are enthusiastic about it, and want to share with all of you the reason we are so excited.

For each “like” (i.e., new interest or passion) users do on CircleMe, they will get plenty of relevant content and related services delivered to them and specifically related to that interest: concert dates, latest news, audio samples, movie trailers, conversations among users, and much more. Once the “like” connection is established, you get the best experience of content consumption related to that passion.

Thanks to this activity, Circlers get a real benefit from our services, and we continue in our mission to create the most valuable interest-based network in the world.

Let us just send a big THANK YOU to all the Circlers who helped us reach this significant milestone. This first million Likes actually adds up to the many other activities Circlers perform on a daily-basis on the platform, such as conversations, ToDo’s, Plants and the thousands of weekly posts related to any of the million passions available in our database.

If you are up for some new discoveries, check out what we have featuring and trending today on the platform: http://circleme.com/explore .

Thanks again, and keep Circling: ‘connecting’ with your passions on the web has never been more real!  #bewhatyoulike

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Time for the new Android style!

At just 4 days from our iOS restyling, it is time to launch our new, revisited, modern and (let’s admit it!) sensational new look for our Android app!

We heard your comments about “the good ol’ times” and our team worked hard to implement a top-notch design that recalls in an elegant way the times in which design was totally-the-opposite-of-flat and colors mattered as much as animations of genies, cats, generic fire lines, dinosaurs, flying birds and dragons. Well, now all of this is back, along with our cool features, of course.

Here’s a sneak preview at the main Updates feed. Oh yes, we know now you cannot wait to check it out, so get your “beauty” here, on the Google Play store.

Now, you have to just find the way to kick off the awesome design evolution – the command to kick it off is just there, before your eyes! 😉

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Enjoy and please, remember us when you are going to suggest the “best designed apps” of the year. We would love to be rewarded for our hard work.

Happy beginning of April, everyone… and Circle on! 😉

Walnut sauce – Italian Pasta Recipe – Part 3

This walnut sauce is the perfect topping for Italian pasta Pansotti.

How to make walnut sauce 

Walnut Sauce - Italian Recipe

Ingredients:

10-15 shelled walnuts

1-2 clove garlic

2-3 slices of stale bread without crusts

1/2 lt. whole milk

1 coffee cup of cream

1 tea cup of grated Parmigiano or Grana Padano cheese

extra virgin Italian olive oil

freshly cut marjoram

salt

white pepper

Put the stale bread in a bowl together with the milk and the cream.

Put the walnuts into a blender with the garlic, bread soaked in milk and cream, salt, white pepper, oil and marjoram. Blend everything until smooth, then add grated Parmigiano or Grana. Before using for the pasta, add a little water from the pansotti pot.

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