Wozaik's Blog

Tips: Wozaik for planning your holidays

Rodolphe — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:56:56 +0000

I will take two week of vacation at the end of August and wanted to share with you how I used Wozaik to help me plan my holiday. I love trekking and hiking and I wanted to take the opportunity of these two weeks off to go back to the mountains.

Choosing my destination

To choose my holiday destination, I am used to browse and read people comments on the trails they have done. So, I read tons of blog posts, looked at thousands pictures, read hundreds maps… This can take hours, and if you are not organized, you can waste a lot of time. To keep the good content I found, I made a specific Wozaik page each time I found an interesting destination. There, I gathered all the content I found on this trek : pictures, maps and people advices. Eventually, I was able to easily compare the different trek I found and kept only the most interesting: I had all the content I found interesting gathered in one place. Then I made a Wozaik page where I gathered all the flights for each destination which made it easy to order my destination by price.

Finally I could easily match my favorite destination with my budget and with my vacation slot. My choice went to a very nice trek around the Toubkal mount in Morocco: flight was cheap, comments where great and pictures look awesome.

Preparing the trek

Then I needed to prepare my equipment for the trek. I needed a new backpack and camping equipment. I made a Wozaik page where I gathered the backpacks I found according to my budget and the different people comments. On one page I could compare the different prices and could easily make my choice of the bag I wanted to buy. Moreover, I could continue my search where I left it when I needed to switch my computer off. I also gathered on a Wozaik page the reference of the books and maps I needed to buy to prepare the trek.

Gathering useful content for the trip

Finally I made a Wozaik page with all the useful content I might need for my trip: weather of the Marrakech area, good places to eat, articles about the moroccan culture, places to see in Marrakech etc. I know that I can return to this page when I need information during my trip.

Wozaik really helped me to keep and access to all the content I found on the web to organize my trip. Here is my page about the Toubkal trek I have made.

New feature: Share and publish a page of bookmarks

Rodolphe — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:18:54 +0000

As some of you may have noticed already, a few days ago, we rolled out very cool new features making it easy to share and publish pages of bookmarks. As usual, we have been testing these new features “live” with your help and it is time to officially tell you more about them.

When you have found bookmarks you would like to share with your friends or with the community, you can now do it very easily with the sharing features. Until now, the shared pages where only available 24 hours. There is no life time limit anymore and you can make your page publicly accessible.

For example, I gathered on my Wozaik account a press review about the French football team after their incredible World cup performance. I can easily share this page with the community by clicking on one of the sharing buttons.

My page can directly be shared on Facebook, Twitter and Google Buzz or just published with the mail icon. If I want to limit access to my shared page, I check the box “Limit access to this page“ (it will not be linked from other pages). Check my press review here :

It is a great way to discover new content. When you visit a shared page, click on the pink “Next share” button to browse randomly other pages. We also provide you with recommandations on pages from the same author and pages on the same topic (displayed in the page footer).

As usual, add a bookmark from a shared page to your account by clicking on your Wozaik button !

Tweet or send us your best pages and we will be happy to promote them !

Do you like our new home page ?

Rodolphe — Wed, 26 May 2010 11:08:37 +0000

We changed our homepage yesterday in order to make simpler the installation of the Wozaik button. We removed the big orange button, to make it possible to directly install the Wozaik bookmarklet. We also provided screenshots on how to install the button with different web browsers. The demo video has also been embeded in the example of bookmarks shown in the page.

Let us know what you think of this new version.

The new home page :

Wozaik now works with Opera browser

Rodolphe — Tue, 18 May 2010 13:02:40 +0000

Many of you asked us when will Wozaik be available on Opera browser. We are happy to announce that we have just released a new version of Wozaik that works pretty well with Opera. However, you should keep in mind that for the moment Opera is not “officially supported”. Actually we cannot test extensively Wozaik on Opera, so you may run into some minor issues while using the service. Nevertheless the main features should work correctly, and it is now possible to add bookmarks to your account. Opera users, please let us know all the problems you may have. We are here to help you on our new Feedback interface.

We have changed our feedback interface

Rodolphe — Mon, 10 May 2010 10:57:13 +0000

Hi, some of you may have already noticed that we have switched our feedback interface to a new one powered by getsatisfaction.com. Thanks the high quality feedbacks you are sending us we are continuously imporving Wozaik and we wanted you to be able to share your ideas, suggestions and bug reports with the whole community. It will now be much simpler for everyone to help each other and to help us improving Wozaik. Don’t worry we are working on the feedbacks you already sent us and we reported the most popular suggestions into the new interface. So don’t forget to register to our support community (you can easily do that with your Facebook or Google account) and feel free to participate and to help the other members of the community.

We hope you will enjoy the new interface and that it will enpower your interactions with the whole Wozaik community.

Wozaik selected as one of the top global startup by Innovate100

Rodolphe — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:54:13 +0000

Last Monday, we participated to the Innovate100 Pitch slam competition in Microsoft headquarter in Paris. Innovate100 is a global competition to identify top technology, media and communications startups from around the world.
22 startups where selected to present their companies at the event. There where two pitch slam sessions and at the end of each, one startup was selected to be part of the Innovate100: the 100 top technology startup from around the world. The winner of the morning session was Smartgrains, which develops a system composed of ground-mounted sensor units and wireless guidance signs that automatically guides drivers to vacant parking spots.

And Wozaik was selected as the winner of the afternoon session !

The Pitch slam competition consisted of a 5min pitch in front of an audience of local investors, entrepreneurs, executive and media and a judge panel (the composition of the panel is here).

We have had a really good time there and we were astonished by the high quality of the pitches and of the startup presented. Being selected as a finalist was a really good surprise and all the team is very proud of it. We also received high quality feedbacks and are waiting for the Innovate100 to send us our G/Score !

The other startups who presented were :

AM Session

PM Session

You can also see the impressive pitch of Vincent below :

(By the way, thanks for the typo. Woziak ??? it’s Wozaik ! Grrrr…)

We also updated the event pictures taken by @olivez and @rougefrog during the event on our Facebook page. Thanks to them for covering the event.

Quickly send your bookmarks to your friends: the new sharing feature

Rodolphe — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:45:07 +0000

You can now quickly publish for 24 hours a page of bookmarks and share it with your friends, on Facebook, Twitter, Buzz or Email. You just have to gather the bookmarks you want to share in the same page and publish your page.
How does it work ?

Let say you want to share with your friends your gift wish-list. First, gather your bookmarks on the same page:

Then click on one of the “Share with” buttons on the bottom-right corner of your Wozaik personal space and enter the title of your page.

Your page is published and you are redirected to Facebook to write a message for your friends.

Your page will be available for 24 hours.

Sharing pages is one of the best way to spread Wozaik around you and to be a Wozaik Ambassador !

Wozaik opens now: be our Ambassador

Rodolphe — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:43:07 +0000

Thanks to the support of our faithful Alpha testers we have dramatically improved our service and we are proud to open Wozaik to everybody. Click here to try the new release of Wozaik.

Be a Wozaik Ambassador: make your friends know Wozaik. Explain them how you use it personally and share with us their feedback. We need you to spread the Wozaik buzz to your friends :

On Facebook
On Twitter

If you are interested to write a guest post on our blog and share your use of Wozaik with the community, let us know.

So what is new in this release ?

We have extremely improved our web clipping technology. Bookmarks load faster, update more frequently and are much more robust. We have simplified the Wozaik interface to make it more intuitive and user friendly. You can now directly search in your bookmarks thanks to the dedicated search engine or organize them into pages with tags. We are still in Alpha, and you may run into some bumps along the way. Please let us know of any problem you encounter.

We also released an iPhone version of Wozaik and a new sharing feature! They will be described in upcoming blog posts.

Take the best of your web with you: Wozaik on your iPhone

Rodolphe — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:23:29 +0000

We have been waiting to access and browse bookmarks everywhere. It is now possible. Today we are unveiling the new Wozaik Iphone web application! We are still improving it, but could not wait anymore to give you access.

The Wozaik interface has been tailored to the device to make it easy to browse and access your bookmarks. Bookmarks are much more readable on small screens than full web pages and provide you with a direct access to the information you are looking for.

When you first access Wozaik with your iPhone, you will be asked to log-in to your account:

Once logged you can browse your bookmarks scrolling down:

You can zoom in with two fingers and filter your bookmarks with the tag button.

You can also search through your bookmarks using the search engine.

My favorite use of Wozaik on iPhone is for cooking. I cut a recipe I like on my computer and while preparing the meal, I use my iPhone to look at the recipe.

Springboard to the French Senat

Rodolphe — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:20:09 +0000

It has been a long time since we have not posted on our blog. You may be wondering what is going on at Wozaik. Well, things are going great ! Last November, we provided tech blogs with invitations to make their readers test Wozaik. Many users love our service and gave us great quality feedbacks.
Others have been running into bumps and sent us suggestions on how to improve our service. Since then we have been hard working on solving these issues and preparing our beta version.

We are releasing new versions on a weekly schedule with upgrades and bug correction. Do not hesitate to come back often checking for new stuff.

On the business side, we have been selected to present Wozaik to investors during the 11th session of Tremplin-Entreprises.

Tremplin-Entreprise is a invetor-startup meeting located in the prestigious building of the French Senat. The meeting is organized in partnership by the ESSEC business School and the Senat. On the first day we presented Wozaik in a room of ~50 investors in the morning and demoing our product on demo pit in the afternoon. We had a top class lunch inside the “Salon Boffrand” where we had the opportunity to pitch VCs. The next day was dedicated to the award ceremony.

Adrian and Vincent demoing Wozaik