Maybe still best known is the web clipper. I’d go so far and say it’s the most powerful feature of Memonic – and the best web clipper available in the world. It’s never been easier to catch information according to your specific needs. We have several extensions for various browsers – and do even support the iPad browser. Features may vary among browser extensions, which is mainly due to missing support of some techniques in certain browsers. If you haven’t had it installed before – you definitely missed something.

Secondly, we also do offer clients with full offline support for all major plattforms. We do support Windows and Mac on the desktop side, as well as the iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) and Android on the mobile side. Unfortunately, the framework we use to code our native clients does not support Windows Phone 7 yet – though we get many requests.

Creating notes by email is very easy. By sending an email to post@memonic.com (using the email address you registered with as sender), the subject will be the memo’s title and the email body will become the memo’s content. Attachements do work as well!

The Memonic save button can be integrated into any website, thus enabling you visitors to save any piece of your website straight into the visitor’s Memonic collection. Just a pity Wikipedia did not integrate it yet ;-)

The Memonic badge is a tiny little iFrame that you can add to any website, displaying a predefined folder of your collection. It’s an easy way to give insights into a particular set of memos which is being updated automatically.

The Memonic WordPress plugin will give you direct access to your Memonic collection within your WordPress installation. Research for a blog post has never been easier and more efficient! Additionally, you can enable the Memonic save button on your blog and even add the Memonic badge to display a particular folder of your collection to your blog – the plugin handles it all!

With Memonic for Facebook and Google Reader, you can simply save any Facebook status or pic as well as any article in your Google Reader into your collection – with one click only!

Last but not least, the integration into Click.to enables you to save literally anything from your desktop computers into Memonic!

That’s quite a few tools for you! Make sure you try the ones you might find useful and let us know how you like them!

That’s you

You have several years of experience in building bleeding-edge frontend applications. When Jesse James Garrett coined the word Ajax you thought it’s just another word for something you had been doing all along. You love building avant-garde frontend applications that work offline and are extremely fast. You have built responsive designs so that the same application works on browsers of all sizes.

You like to work under the pressure and excitement of a growing startup. Our development methodology Scrum is no hubbub expression to you.

You are willing and able to work at our offices in the center of Zurich, Switzerland. You have a work permit in Switzerland or are a citizen of an EU or EFTA state.

We want you

For a new product launching in early 2012 we seek you for a fix position. You will be part of the core platform team building this real-time knowledge gathering platform. Within days you will be taking over the responsibility for sizable portions of the frontend. All in all: A pretty exciting job.

That’s us

Become part of a sound, fervent, and vibrant team: We are a team of passionate Internet geeks and entrepreneurs. Together we face the challenge of simplifying the everyday need for information gathering and refining: Discover, follow, collect, and share any interest. We call it Knowledge Curation.

Get in touch

Patrice Neff
Tel: +41 44 586 98 98
Email: patrice [at] memonic.com
Skype: patriceneff

Much has been written about the future of newspapers. Here my humble contribution:

1. In a complex world people turn to trusted sources of information for news, analysis and comment, e.g. newspapers.
2. The unique value of a newspaper is its editorial staff (1).
3. The core competence of an editorial team is separating the relevant from the chaff and provide context. Simply put: Making sense of the world afar and close.
4. The result of journalistic work – articles, analysis and comment – is independent of the carrier medium (i.e. print, digital, spoken word, moving images).
5. An editorial team must cover a wide range of subjects to get to the heart of things and be able to provide context. Expert editorial teams on specific subjects complement a broad reporting approach.
6. A reader is interested only in a subset of topics covered; the limiting factors being time and interests. Corollary 1: A reader wants to select her topics of interest. Corollary 2: An ideal news offering is a collection of topics a reader chooses to follow. (2)
7. The reader expects each topic to be a continuously updated feed with factual reporting, analysis and comment.
8. The reader decides through which carrier medium or combination thereof she wants to receive her information.
9. The digital world is not something fundamentally new; the digital world only exacerbates this trend: In the digital world where news is abundant, the key factor is attention (Contrary to the physical world where scarcity is the limiting factor – 3).
10. There will always be people willing to pay for attention. Either pay someone for organizing a limited amount of available attention or someone pays for access to attention.

Obviously we’re working hard to make this vision happen here at Memonic. Stay tuned.

Notes:

(1) It is total nonsense to differentiate between a print and a online editorial team. It’s one news reporting organization regardless of output channel.

(2) A reader’s preferred subset is most likely not corresponding to the traditional sectioning of a newspaper in Politics (World, Home), Business, Arts, etc. Example: Reporting on the Euro crisis could be found in newspapers such as the NZZ, SZ, FAZ, Spiegel, NYT in the politics, business and feuilleton sections. The topic of interest though is euro crisis.  So why not simply offering exactly that: A follow-a-topic function allowing a reader to find everything relevant on say the euro crisis under that heading. And so it goes for every topic.

(3) In a sea of (digital) abundance it’s the attention that counts, as Michael Goldhaberpointed out in 1997. That is, in a sea of abundant ‘information’ on any event, with you having only so much attention to devote, you most likely turn to a trusted source of information for reporting and contextualization.

In your Memonic account, select the folder you want to mirror in iGoogle. You can easily generate an RSS feed out of any folder in Memonic by adding “.atom” to the end of the URL displayed in your address bar. However, since some notes might be privat they won’t appear in iGoogle. To get around this, instead of just appending “.atom”, add “.atom?secure=oauth” and hit enter. You will be given a very long URL for the RSS feed that includes all your notes, regardless of scope (private, friends, public). This also implies a privacy issue – make sure you don’t give away this URL, otherwise anybody would be able to watch your notes. Now, this URL theoretically could be added to iGoogle. However, it seems that there’s an issue with such long URLs. Thus, we need to shorten it first.

Reach out to your favourite link shortening service and shorten the long URL. Now copy the short URL, open iGoogle, click “Add Gadget” on the left-hand side, scroll down to and click “Add Feed or Gadget” and paste the short URL in the field appearing. Click “Add” and return to your dashboard. Enjoy!