Here is the invitation:

As you can see on the invitation above, we had managed to gather a group of qualified and diverse speakers:

+ Georges Mohammed Cherif - Founder @ Buzzman
+ Julien Guiraud - Digital Marketing Manager @ Coca-Cola
+ Michel Campan - Marketing Client Director @ Christian Dior Couture
+ Guillaume du Gardier -New Media Director @ Ferrero
+ Thomas Husson - Senior Analyst @ Forrester Research
+ Limvirak Chea - New Business Development @ Google EMEA
+ Antoine Levêque - Managing Director @ Marvellous / Isobar
+ Philippe Collombel - Managing Partner @ Partech International
+ Hervé Le Jouan - Managing Director Europe @ Comscore Census Solutions
+ Jérôme Jean - Internet Project Manager @ Toyota
+ Dominique Mohamed - Business Development @ Voyages Sncf

Were programmed: a presentation of statistics about mobile usage by Comscore, several panels with our speakers, a presentation of Goojet, and then, chats with a drink around a buffet. All along the evening, it was possible to discover Goojet, not only on the Plasma screens, but also because, for the first time since the creation of Goojet, there were more Goojet Team members in Paris than in Toulouse ;-).

During the night, we had also prepared a game called “Goojet Family”, whose concept was taken from the “7 families” game, which invited all the participants (more than 150 although the initial goal was 120…) to find the other members of their family to exchange goojets in a sticker format. Among the people who had found the most family members, an HTC Magic phone was to win; it is finally Milton from Phonevalley who won the device, lucky him!

Finally, here are some pictures of the event so you can have a look:

Almost a year and a half after our first round of fundraising amounted to 2.3 million Euros back in Decmber 07, this new round was made by Goojet’s historical investors joined by Orkos Capital. If you are interested by this matter, you can have a look at their websites but also at others companies they have invested in:

+ Elaia Partners : Goom, Criteo, Wyplay, Total Immersion etc..
+ IRDI-ICSO : Leyio, Neosens, Ethiquable, Seanodes
+ Orkos Capital : Allocine, Start, Liligo, Newzy etc…
+ Partech International : Dailymotion, Goom, Digitick, Qype etc…

(Those examples were chosen randomly…)

The biggest question still remaining since the launching is “what will the money be used for?”. In a nutshell, there are two answers to this question: first, to continue our development in France, on the basis of our current growth and first experiences, and second to grow on an international scale, starting by Europe. This fundraising is a very good sign for Goojet’s growth because our value (that we won’t announce) is superior to the one we had a year and a half ago, for the first round.

You will find more details about this fundraising in our Press Release.

What are the new features of this version?

First, we had a slight reorganization. The first page that you will visualize when you will log on to Goojet will not only be your selection of goojets but will be divided into three tabs:

We worked more especially on the Messages and News tabs.

Your mailbox inside Goojet has been completely redone in order to ease communication between one or several Goojet users but also on the outside, for example with free text messages. With this new mailbox, it will be very easy to send a goojet or a goojet’s page, in order for example to share a cool video seen on YouTube Mobile or the last comical FML story…

The News tab will allow you to find everything that is new on your Goojet space: articles from your RSS feeds, amusing content, activities your Goojet contacts are doing… but also some recommendations for specific goojets, according to your preferences or coming from the community.
The purpose of this new function is to present, every time that you log on, a new content chosen depending on your choices and preferences. This is why we call Goojet a mobile social media!

A few other things to notice:

Last year we did already attend this conference and we made a presentation about mobile viral marketing that you can also view on this blog.

Some weeks ago, we were pleased to have been invited to two different events organized by Techcrunch Europe. This videos have been publisched online so here there are

• The first one is a panel during Techcrunch Talk in Paris about the French Startup Ecosystem with Cédric from Goojet:
  

• The seonc one, with Marc, was during Techcrunch Talk in Barcelona and is about Mobile 2.0 :

After Goojet for iPhone with the iPhone app or previously a runtime for Blackberry that went in addition to our J2ME app, it was very logical for us to very quickly make it available on the Android platform. The motivation was double: Android is a platform that allows great development possibilities and the number of users will grow exponentially in the next months.

In this Goojet Android version you’ll find all the Goojet features you already know: easy navigation of goojets, video watching, pictures taken directly from the Goojet app, etc.

But there are two major new features exclusively for the Android version:

• Goojet notifications appear directly on the Android phone desktop (an icon appears at the top left of the screen when you have messages). On Android, the Goojet app runs in the background, checks regularly for new Goojet messages and then displays an alert! Real-time alerts ensure that you’re always aware of your Goojet activity, never missing a step (or date).

• The possibility to “bookmark a Goojet” and to put it on the phone desktop. Now you can easily launch one specific goojet from the Android phone dekstop!

Android Market can only by browsed from an Android phone but you can check the Goojet Android app description on a non-official Android Market web version.

Here are some screenshots to show you what it looks like on an Android phone:

In 2 weeks will be held in Paris a conference called Le Mobile 2.0. We’re happy to announce that Goojet is a partner of this conference, that has become, in 3 years, a major event concerning the mobile ecosystem, startups and trends in France but also worldwide.

For its third edition, the 10th and 11th of March, the conference is divided in two days : a first one with plenary sessions or panels, and a second one with a startup competition called “Zapping du Mobile”. A total of 36 international speakers are expected.

Goojet will be present in two ways: on one side, Ludovic Le Moan will be a speaker on a panel concerning mobile widgets and on the other side, Goojet is partner of the event and proposes a dedicated space on the mobile for all attendees to the conference :

Thanks to this dedicated collection of goojets, all participants will enjoy news and interactive services about the conference directly from their mobile : the agenda, news on Twitter or pictures on Flickr, a wall to share ideas and opinions, quizz, speaker bios etc…

To add it to your goojets : Le Mobile 2.0 on Goojet

Some Goojet team members will attend THE event dedicated to the mobile industry: the Mobile World Congress (MWC).

We’ll not only attend the exhibition to meet some partners, suppliers or friends, we’ll also be there for other events such as the Mobile Peer Awards on Monday that gathers all Mobile Monday organizers and participants from all over the world.

But that’s not enough! We’re very pleased to announce that we have been invited to speak at 2 major events during the MWC:

• Guillaume Decugis (Goojet CEO) will speak on a conference session panel during MWC called “The Business of Mobile 2.0“. It’s on Tuesday at 2pm.

• Marc Rougier (Goojet President) will speak during the TechcrunchTalk Mobile organized by Mike Butcher from Techcrunch Uk in parallel to the MWC. It’s held on Thursday from 3pm to 9pm.

Do not hesitate to contact us if you want to meet there.

So yesterday we did the update, and everything went well!

Not many visible changes for our users (the update mostly affected the backend), except that it’s much much faster. Goojet has dramatically increased in speed, whether on mobile or on the web portal and we are sure you will enjoy it.

As a “bonus” with this update, a new website, that we hope clearer and better for the comprehension of new visitors. Have a look :

A huge welcome to all our new iPhone users! We’re keeping a close eye on the feedback we’re seeing in blogs, in the appstore and of course through email and twitter.

We owe a big apology to not only our iPhone users, but to all our users: the impact of this huge number of new signups is a significant drop in the reponsiveness of our service. We know that it can require quite a bit of patience these days.

In the begining of Februrary we’ll roll out an upgrade of our technical backbone that will restore a correct responsiveness of the service. Until then we’ll have to ask you to be patient with us and know that behind the scenes our technical team is working around the clock to prepare the new backbone and do whatever is possible to improve the situation until then.

Thanks for your patience, please keep sending us your feedback, we love them. And enjoy Goojet!