For our new project Squirro we are starting our jet engines again. So at the end of last year we were again looking for great software developers to join our team. For that we did a pitch at the December Webtuesday in the hope of attracting one or or two good people. And indeed a few days later Patrick approached us and by the next Webtuesday he had already joined our team.

He had not written much Python before and still he was productive from the second day on. In this first weeks since he started, Patrick wrote several web services from scratch (I think the average is one per week). And he has just taken over management of our whole live infrastructure, using good old Puppet.

Patrick and me actually met briefly back in 2003 when he won the software development showcase event at the WorldSkills in St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Outside of work he’s an active OpenStreetmap mapper and a pirate.

Thanks for your work Patrick!

It is the next logical setup for us. Memonic is a great note taking application solving the everyday problem of keeping digital content. With Squirro we want to solve the problem of information overload and clutter: We aim at building something like a noise-cancelling headset; call it digital noise reduction.

To get this done we partner with a group of key business angels from Europe and the Americas to plug their experience in building great software companies.

You may want to read our press release here (PDF, 68KB).

What does this imply for Memonic? We continue to support Memonic as is, including bug fixing and some improvements. We also will allow all existing Memonic users to get Squirro first, as soon as it becomes available. However, it is true to to state, that we will not release a lot of entirely new features for Memonic. As a small team we need to strike a careful balance. We think this is a good way forward for you, our cherished users and us, the team behind Memonic.

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