Luca Chistè is a photography enthusiast, and also works on fine-art photography and high quality digital b/w and color prints. He exposed recently in Verona, in the International Photography Center, previously in Berlin with an exhibition called “Berlino profili urbani (Berlin. Urban profiles).

You’re a Memonic user. Why?

Because Memonic is simple, fast, intelligent and cross-platform where I can collect , quickly, all my links and memos. Two things are beautiful in Memonic: Simplicity and the high-performance about the organization of the owner contents. The database for all notes is fantastic!

What do you dislike about Memonic and yet you keep using the service?

I wouldn’t change anything and this product is truly well built for my personal needs … I have no advice to improve a service which I find excellent!

How does Memonic compare with a past time of yours?

Memonic is an indispensable tool for anyone who wants to collect and organize information. It is easy to use as swimming! … Yeah!

Swisscom, Switzerland’s national telecom’s provider just launched their cloud marketplace. Targeted at smaller and mid-sized companies, it comprises a number of great online, cloud-based business applications. We’re honored that Swisscom chose Memonic to be among the two dozen launch applications.

Companies of any size may now enjoy a reliable, secure online notebook service for all their digital note-taking requirements: Effortless organizing, team-friendly sharing, synced across all your devices and accessible from anywhere.

Test it yourself.

Richard MacManus of Read Write Web recently wrote about the future of publishing being one of streams.

A stream is a continuous flow of information: Anil Dash declares he wants “a clean, simple stream of my writing, organized by topic and sorted with the newest stuff on top.”

Thinking around topics instead of pages, blog posts (shorter pages) or Facebook updates or tweets (even shorter pages) resonates a lot with what we do here at Squirro.

It is part of that same quest to find relevant information. In our view you can go one step beyond and at to “find” also “remember, organize and share” as next logical steps. The end point then is more than a stream with a RSS-like ‘latest-post, top-position’ logic but a living collection of curated content on a certain topic of interest.

This living collection then updates continuously and automatically. As a reader I may want to consume this in a traditional ‘latest-post, top-position’ logic, but I may want to consume that stream in a number of other ways, too. E.g. based on the reputation of certain contributions, the level of ‘noise’, i.e. the number of posts I want to read in such a stream, the type of post, the reputation of the contributors, etc.

Over time I will be able to sort this living collection to point me to the seven* most relevant posts and the seven most relevant contributors on that topic. That in our view is the future of stream-based publishing.

* Why seven? It’s an arbitrary number.

Our engineering team here at Memonic is doing a great job. Focused, result driven with a no-nonsense approach they create a great web application. Memonic as an example has been running over the past months like a breeze. Time to say thank you!

And to have a little fun we promoted one of the engineers representing this great team to be Major Post-It of the Day!

As a seasoned ops expert for full-time employment you will be part of the core team building and operating Squirro, the personal digital research assistant. Within days you will be taking over the responsibility for sizable portions of this new platform. You’ll be part of a small team building and operating a scalable real-time application that is run on Amazon AWS.

Requirements

• Work permit in Switzerland, which is given for citizens of EU and EFTA member states.
• Since our solution is built in Python and we’re not kidding about the Dev in DevOps, its a big plus if you’re experienced in Python.

We don’t hire based on experience with a handful of tools. Instead, we want smart, capable, and experienced people who can learn our tools (and suggest new ones) as needed.

Here is what we use:

• Linux (Debian)
• Amazon AWS (EC2, EBS, ELB, S3, Cloudfront, RDS (MySQL), DynamoDB, SQS, Route53 and more…)
• Puppet
• Elasticsearch
• Nginx
• Varnish
• Icinga
• statsd / graphite
• papertrail
• and much more…

That is the product

Squirro is the personal digital research app. Broader than feeds and more specific than search, Squirro filters out the noise to give you the content that matters most. Squirro scans multiple sources from Internet channels and social media, private databases and even company internal to find the most relevant information on your topic of interest, then updates it continuously and automatically. The result is a living collection of curated content you can save, synthesize and share.

That is us

Squirro is developed by passionate internet geeks and entrepreneurs with high ambitions: To simplify the everyday need to find, remember, organize and share important information. We created Squirro following Memonic, the award-winning, online note-taking app and the Swiss search engine local.ch.

The deal

Become part of a passionate and fun team. Take over the responsibility of operating and scaling Squirro and Memonic. In return you’ll be working in a startup setting and will receive a share of the future success of the platforms you help building.

Get in Touch

Toni Birrer, Co-Founder & CTO
Email: jobs@squirro.com
Skype: tonibirrer
Phone: +41 44 586 98 98

Using a cloud-based multi-tenant architecture for your software product works great. Every one of your customers is served from a single installation. Upgrades are simpler to perform compared to an on-premise operation model. It might even be the case that only a single version of your software is installed in your entire environment.

It all looks great. Then one day the whole team meets to plan the next iteration of the product. The conversation could start like this: “Good job guys pushing out the new release yesterday! It’s fantastic to use our new search functionality. Let’s release it to beta users next week. And to paying customers at the end of the month.”

As outlined in the beginning of this article using a multi-tenant platform is beneficial from an operators point of view. However, the price one has to pay lies in the increased complexity. The same installation will need to be customized in terms of branding, work flow, or even access control. At Squirro we are building exactly such a multi-tenant platform to serve all of our customers. In order to e.g. customize a certain work flow there is a central service which allows configuration values to be stored in an efficient and hierarchical manner.

What works great is to exploit the fact that configuration values can be the same for a set of users. You can for example define which logo to show in your front end web application for all users of a single customer. For storage and maintenance reasons you are better off to not store this information for every user individually. However, the hierarchical nature of the system still accounts for the fact that a single user might have a different need. In the picture below you can see how configuration values are organized. At the very top there is always a default entry for any configuration value that is stored within the system. Below that users can be grouped into tenants and groups. At the bottom level a value can be present for a single user.

As our architecture is based on independent HTTP services the configuration values stored on persistent storage are exposed via a RESTful interface. Any module that needs to fetch values from the configuration service uses our Python client library. It abstracts away all the boiler plate HTTP calls and the corresponding error handling routines. Moreover, the library contains a time-based cache which expires cached entries after a given time period. Such a design makes sure that on one hand the service is not contacted on every request to get the same configuration value. On the other hand a time based cache makes sure that updated values on stable storage get propagated eventually.

So let us walk through an example and see how things look in actual Python code. The goal is to query the configuration service to check whether the improved search functionality is enabled for a particular user. First we import our client library and create a new client. Then we can query the service and make sure that configuration values are stored within an in-memory cache of the current process.

The code example above shows how to get the default value which is used as a feature switch. But now the hierarchy of the system allows us to store values for all users of an tenant. Or we can fine tune the setting for an individual user. In the code example below it is shown that the new search functionality has been enabled for a particular software engineer who is currently testing the new feature. All the other members of the team get the value which is defined for the tenant.

There are many use cases for the usage of a configuration service within a multi-tenant environment. The scenario of work flow customization has been highlighted above. Taking advantage of the hierarchical nature of configuration values is crucial to make such a service scale and be used throughout a multi-tenant platform.

Gregg, you are a Memonic user. Why?

I use Memonic for my graduate school studies. It helps me organize research, access it, compile it, and print it. I highlight relevant research and save it to Memonic using the Chrome Extension. My clips are tagged and saved into a collection. Afterwards, I either print my collection in a Word document or a review them within Memonic. I cut and delete relevant information and since Memonic saves the source, my bibliography is easy to create. Memonic also lets me open a full screen blank page for writing. My notes are saved in the same collection as my research. In all, Memonic is my preferred solution for research.

What do you dislike about Memonic and yet you keep using the service?

I don’t like the graphic characteristics. The corkboard background is ugly as are the other colors and prints. I also do not like the inefficient use of space. I like things compact so that as much as possible can fit into my laptop screen.

How does Memonic compare with sports?

It is like hiking: My web research takes me along different paths but using Memonic, just like using a trail map, I am able to circle back to my departure.

Recently we had a customer with issues starting the desktop client. A quick investigation revealed the problem – and a fix was a matter of a few minutes. She clearly was happy, as she let us know:

Hi Toni,
It works – T H A N K Y O U ! ! !
As mentioned before, you’re excellent – keep up the good work!

Regards, K.

Our support is absolutely free – regardless of what subscription plan you have. And such statements and happy customers are the things that make US happy! Happy Friday everyone :-)

You simply love to communicate and sell. You excel in connecting with prospects and sales leads and engage them in a meaningful conversation that leaves a lasting positive impression whether they turn into clients or not. You are excellent on the phone but also in employing social media and marketing automation tools to get your story out. Your ease at creating relationships helps you to cast a wide network throughout our target industries (Pharma / Life Science, High Tech, Finance). Your strong track record proves your knack at sales.

We want you

For our growing team we seek to engage, you, a top notch inside sales and business development manager. You will be responsible for the inside sales effort of Squirro on an international scale. Your key experiences and capabilities are:

• Strong track record in inside sales and business development roles.
• Several years of professional experience in enterprise software (marketing & sales), ideally in any of the above mentioned target industries a good network in the market
• A strong analytical capacity and understanding of our activity; a high level of creativity; a great communicator and team worker; strong project management skills

Your key tasks include:

• You shine when selling Squirro: You are able to propel the sales efforts of Squirro to the next level.
• Together with the CEO you formulate an adequate inside sales strategy and excel in executing the derived tasks.
• You are able to establish yourself as a trusted source of advice helping them to craft an optimal strategy of employing Squirro in their specific settings.

All in all: An exciting job.

That’s the product

Squirro is the personal digital research app. Broader than feeds and more specific than search, Squirro filters out the noise to give you the content that matters most. Squirro scans multiple sources from Internet channels and social media, private databases and even company internal to find the most relevant information on your topic of interest, then updates it continuously and automatically. The result is a living collection of curated content you can save, synthesize and share.

That’s us

Squirro is developed by passionate internet geeks and entrepreneurs with high ambitions: To simplify the everyday need to find, remember, organize and share important information. We created Squirro following Memonic, the award-winning, online note-taking app and the Swiss search engine local.ch.

The deal

Become part of a sound, fervent, and vibrant team. Take over the inside sales responsibility of Squirro on an international scale and help market a sexy and award winning Internet application. In return you’ll be working in a startup setting and will receive a share of the future success of the platform you help building. This being possibly one of the stronger founding teams around town, this is your chance for a lift to the next level.

Contact

Dorian Selz, Co-Founder & CEO
Tel: +41 44 586 98 98,
E-Mail: dorian at memonic.com,
Web: http://memonic.com