Since Financial Times published an article on Seedcamp, now it is official: yes, we have been accepted.

Anyways, we’ve kept ourselves busy during the week, trying to put ourselves in a position to get out of Seedcamp as much as possible. It is definitely going to be exciting, tough and hopefully fun and fulfilling. I feel we are all getting a great opportunity to be able to go there and discuss our business with so many interesting people that have so much to share.

Our new demo gives a glimpse of what we are currently working on. For those that are following us that might not seem as big functionality advance since Odprti kop. However we have rewritten the whole backend, making it scalable and extendable. And in turn making us much more flexible.

Part of backend consists of Natural Language Processing - in short NLP. The fun thing is that no matter how many things you improve, there is always wast amount of input data that causes wrong or at least not-exactly-right contextualization. However I think we made a lot of important advances.

By the way: NLP in slovenian stands for Neznani Leteči Predmeti, or translated to english Unknown Flying Objects - UFOs. Which sometimes seems as quite an accurate description.

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We’ve been busy polishing our new web demo, but I think it was worth it. I am always amazed with the amount of work that has to be put into a product to make it look simple and obvious.
In the demo, visitor can post some text (unfortunetly only in slovenian for now), and our engine augments it with smartlinks, related news, picture and keywords. The fabulous design is a work of Racer, many thanks!
Oh, and we’ve survived the Seedcamp interview today. Yay.
Demo itself is quite useless, but nice looking. Stay tuned for usefull applications!

We already blogged about how we applied to Seedcamp. Today we got the news that we were shortlisted for phone interview.

Which reminds me of interesting fact I came across. One of the papers at International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media 2007 was exploring automatic mood detection in blogs. Do you know which word is the most correlated with happy emotions? Yay!

Yesterday was the deadline for submissions to Seedcamp. We applied.

The interesting discussion came up afterwards: Should we keep it quiet and just publish it if we succeed possibly sparing ourselves the “shame of not succeeding”?

One of the problems is naturally fear of failure, but even larger is “what will others say if we fail at it”? Well after sleeping it over the answer is pretty simple. We can’t succeed all the time. There is no success without many failures on the road. And eventually we should cope and talk about them openly and learn from them. Sooner the better.

Accidentally I came across an interview with Randy Komisar in which he speaks how most important differentiator of Sillicon Valley is its ability to deal with failures and how it forgives when things don’t come out as expected.

Well, if environment here has obsession with failures, that is its problem, not ours. The only way to change this attitude in Europe and more so in Slovenia is to start behaving differently. Starting with ourselves.

After three months of work I’ve finally found time to setup this blog and start commanding my coworkers to start blogging about those crazy and interesting things they are developing.

Let me first introduce ourselves, I, bostjan, am the CEO of this venture. Former film director, contemporary artist, philosopher, sociologist, journalist, renaissance man.

Andraz is our CTO, a computer genius who wrote his first pascal interpreter at the age of 12.

Jure is our user interfaces expert, with excellent understanding of social dynamics of contemporary internet phenomena.

Gasper is our lead engineer, a very talented young programmer.

Expect news and thoughts on contextual internet services and excuse us for occasional ranting over random problems.