Video Summary of Social Search Session from Global Future Camp

Thanks again to Moritz and his team for organizing the GlobalFutureCamp in Berlin. While now 2 weeks ago the #gfc09 was a great experience leveraging the ideas and inspirations of a bunch of very engaged and motivated people. It was good to see how many people in our digital industry really care about future challenges and take responsibility (and action!). To grab some of the atmosphere and some insights on the discussion results please find photos on flickr, tweets and other action at mixxt.

Our session about the future of search and how socially-empowered technologies will reshape the search industry is summarized in the video below. Please find more infos at our scrib.com page or our website.

Artist Mark Lombardi as grandfather of Social Search

In his session at the Globalfuture barcamp in Berlin, Qitera founder Carlo Velten outlined how artist Mark Lombardi has influenced the architecture model of social search that will be the new paradigm for search within the next 2-8 years. In his session Carlo presented some of Qitera's approaches to semantically-powered search and the core principles of its current enterprise social search platform. The debate than circled around the near-term future of semantic and social services and how user-data could be provided in a secure and seamless way. You can find some slides here. Additional information and some video footage of Carlo's session could be find on the groups Facebook-page.

Qitera founder Carlo Velten moderates session at "GlobalFuture" Barcamp in Berlin

Qitera founder Carlo Velten will moderate a session at the "GlobalFuture" barcamp in Berlin this weekend (Sept. 18-19.). The session is part of the wider topic "trust & confidence in web and economy" and will circle around how the future search technologies will become social. Feel free to join us for an interesting session about futuristic tech and social trends. Please sign up at http://www.globalfuturecamp.de or get in touch with organizer-in-chief Moritz.

For more information about our "future of search session" please check out the agenda
here(Scrib document).

Qitera founder Carlo Velten to speak about Future of Social Search at Heinrich-Heine-University

Qitera founder Carlo Velten will join a panel and speak about the "social future" of search together with other experts gathering at Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf at Sept 28.

Carlo will outline some of the technological underpinnings of social search and give an outlook on future search trends. Additionally Carlo will demo Qitera Enterprise and show how Qitera have implemented Social Search within its Enterprise Collaboration suite.

The interdisciplinary workshop "Social Software @ Work" is organized by the institute for information management at Heinrich-Heine-University and will bring together experts from the business and academic world.

We are looking forward to some fruitful discussions. Please do find more information here http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/social-software/programm.html or get in touch with Isabella Peters

New direct and real-time communication features within Qitera social collaboration platform

Qitera is starting to release a series of new features for its social collaboration and search platform.

Before a major release will be introduced next week Qitera Enterprise™ now allows all users to communicate in real-time via chat. Beside regular chat functionality between two users, Qitera Enterprise™ enables chatting for
-topics
-groups
-projects

So team communication is clearly focused and helps to share relevants views and information in a very fast and very productive way.

We are happy about feedback.

Qitera CTO Rene Seeber to speak at BITKOM knowledge management workshop

Qitera founder & CTO Rene Seeber will give a key note speech about „Time and user as semantic levels of information structuring" at executive workshop which is organized by BITKOM on September the 24th. The workshop will focus on the topic "innovative methods and technologies for knowledge management".

Rene Seeber will be speaking about the thematic cooperation of employees and how it can be used in project-oriented work environments, to store information more effectively, filter, search and make them available sustainably.

The workshop targets information professionals and IT-decision makers in the field of knowledge management, search technologies and semantic web. Please do find more information about the workshop below or read our press release(German)below.

Pressemitteilung Semantic Structuring 010909

Social Search now integrated in Bing

Microsoft's new search engine Bing is getting more and more attractive in the market. Since its launch Qitera offers its leading social search technology to be integrated into Bing. Thereby Qitera-users can benefit from the collective intelligence of their organisation while searching the web.

Qitera Assist™ integrates your company's individual search results into Bing. Qitera Assist™ automatically shows matching websites or documents that you or your colleagues have saved in Qitera. So you can spot the most relevant results at a glance and check out personal comments or ratings your colleagues have added. Qitera Assist™ lets you benefit from your social network's knowledge and saves you time searching - that is how search gets social.

For more information about our Enterprise Social Search and Collaboration Platform please do contact Carlo Velten.

Qitera among upcoming start-ups in Saas-market

In a recent article by Jens Tönnesmann, Germany's leading business publication Wirtschaftswoche covers several upcoming start-ups in the Saas-space. The article gives an overview how Qitera and other young software companies are delivering software innovations as "Software as a Service". Please do read the full article here (in German).

Fraunhofer Research Labs evaluating Qitera Social Search Platform

The Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO is among Germany's leading institutions for research in the field of information and technology management. Today Fraunhofer IAO will kickstart a new survey regarding the adoption of modern collaboration and knowledge sharing solutions. Objectives of the projects are to identify successful implementation strategies for social software and to evaluate different approaches of web-based sharing and search.

Qitera's social search and collaboration platform will be evaluated within multiple use cases and scenarios. We are very exited about the outcome of the survey and looking forward to valuable feedback for further product innovations. The survey results will be published at selected conferences and events at the end of the year.

Please contact Carlo Velten for more detailed information.

The Future of Search is Social - video interview with search expert Mike Grehan

smarter every day

Dear Customers,

I am happy to announce our new Enterprise Intelligence Plattform. For the first time you can now get all your relevant Web content, Office Content, Collaboration and Fresh Qitera Intelligence in one place.

Qitera was founded with the mission to build a new generation of search solutions that deliver meaningful results in a more intuitive way. As the amount of data is exploding, finding relevant information to make smart decisions has become a challenge in most organizations. We built a search technology platform that reflects the fundamental paradigm shifts taking place today. Social – Simple – Semantic – SaaS

Social Search – As the web has become the prime source of information, making sense of the users search and sharing activities is a key step to better search results based on the collective wisdom of the organization. That is how search gets social.

Simple Search – As users are getting accustomed to Google, enterprise search products have to become more user-friendly and have to deliver relevant results in a much more intuitive way.

Semantic Search – As the amount of unstructured content is exploding, semantic web technologies provide the chance to mark up and structure information in a more meaningful and graph-based way.

Search as a Service – As traditional enterprise search systems are associated with high-volume licensing fees and installation costs, web-based search services offer significant customer benefits in terms of flexibility, scalability and TCO.

Please visit www.Qitera.com and leave your contact details for a free trial within your organization!

CeBIT, Webciety, Hall 6, March 3 - 8

With our partner, T-Systems MMS, we share a booth at CeBIT - (still) the worlds largest IT Show. Today was the first public speech about Qitera Enterprise in the Webciety Area in hall 6. The easiness of the platform, the nice positioning of Qitera between Google and Autonomy and the clear need for SaaS and Enterprise 2.0 truly boosted our wildest dreams. Please come and visit us until March 8 in hall 6, T3.02 to get an insight of how to maximise the value within your organization.

Social Search in Google

One of the most annoying things in "Search" is the neverending loop of searching things we already found previously. We search again and again and again for similar things - and the worst: our friends and coworkers most probably also search for similar things.

In capturing whole pages from the web, Qitera already did the first important step: Building your personal search index. No Tags anymore. No lost content no vanished articles. All stored for eternity in your personal index. Open it to friends or co-workers and benefit from what they know and ready is your social search index.

With Qitera Assist we do another important step: Integrating your personal Index into Google, MSN and Yahoo!. You now FIRST get pages from YOUR pages, things you already found and THAN from the web.


How does it work?
The Qitera plug-in captures a query in Google or Yahoo! and sends the search term to Qitera. We than take your search results and display them right before the "official" Google results.

More Info?
http://www.qitera.com/help/assist

Change comes to your office - Qitera to launch realtime collaboration for the enterprise

After months of hard work and intensive customer feedback we are nearly ready to launch the enterprise version of Qitera. With our enterprise productivity platform we will revolutionize your working environment. By combining the novel workflow approach of “activity streams” (aka news feed) with powerful sharing and enterprise search functionalities, Qitera Enterprise will help you to speed up team work and project management in your organization. With Qitera Enterprise you can reduce email-overload and track projects intelligently. Supporting office documents and web content alike Qitera bridges the gap between both worlds to provide an easy-to-use collaboration platform that really supports group knowledge.

Qitera Enterprise works for multiple types of projects e.g. new web site, product relaunch, partner event, competition survey or marketing plan. Qitera Enterprise ensures that everybody in a team can easily access the latest information and comments to make the right decisions. Qitera is suited for the following domains:
• Team work and collaboration
• Sales support and pre-sales
• Market intelligence
• Knowledge management and media sharing
• Semantic and social enterprise search

Qitera Enterprise is delivered as software-as-a-Service (SaaS). No extra server or installation costs. No additional upgrade or support fees and built-in enterprise search for a rapid ROI.

We plan to launch Qitera Enterprise at Cebit in March. Please feel free to contact us and get further information and support. info@qitera.com

Video Sharing with Qitera

Qitera lets you easily share different forms of web content. Video is a main part. With the Qitera-plugin you can save and share videos from all major video platforms with just one click. If you simply save the video you will find it in your personal content feed called "My Stuff". If you add the video to one of your topics you will also get back to it on the specific topic-page.

Additionally, you can contribute and share videos via the Qitera website by using the "Add New Item"-function and choose "add website/video". Just copy and paste the URL of the video into the dialog box and press "save". You can then assign a topic to share the video with selected friends and colleagues.

You can use the comment features and icons to securely communicate with friends.

Qitera is now live!

Dear friends of Qitera,

After months of development and testing the new version of Qitera is now live. We would like to thank all of you for your valuable feedback and support. We hope that the new version will help you to simplify your online life.

With Qitera you can now

• save important websites with just one click (capture entire websites 1:1, e.g. travel itineraries, favorite products from online shops or cool videos)
• share securely with friends (group your content by topic to share and engage with friends)
• discover relevant content and products around your mutual interests (get valuable recommendations without searching)

To have a closer look at all the new features please go on the feature tour. If you are dreaming of a hassle-free Christmas just use Qitera to manage your online Christmas shopping.

Are you crazy about the new version? Please log-in and do not forget to invite friends and colleagues.

To surf the web with the latest plug-ins from Qitera please check out the installation page.

All the best,
Your
Qitera-team