Tinysong is Tinyurl for music

Written on 22nd January 2009                                                                                                              3 COMMENTS
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Yesterday I admired Oasis on the stage of the Amsterdam Heineken Music Hall. They surprised me with some new songs, like Bag it Up. I want to share that track with Twones co-founder Tim Heineke as soon as possible. I could use his great service, of course, but what if I even don’t have the time to login? Well, I just browse to Tinysong.com, the Tinyurl for music. After typing in the song title, Tinysong provides me with a link to the song from the Grooveshark database. Pretty cool, uh?

[Hat tip: Wouter Broekhof]

amsterdam, Heineken Music Hall, music, Oasis, Tim Heineke, twones, wouter broekhof

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Social software service Wakoopa gets second financial injection

Written on 2nd June 2008                                                                                                              11 COMMENTS
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

The guys from our sponsor Wakoopa had a great weekend. Beers, champagne and euphoric tweets dominated the last couple of days for CEO Robert Gaal, CTO Wouter Broekhof, and senior developer Menno van der Sman. How come?

Wouter, Robert, Gert-Jan Bennen (DCIF), Coen from HenQ, Menno & Barend van den Brande (BBV)

Well, these three fellas traveled to Rotterdam last Friday to sign an incredible stack of papers with Big Bang Ventures and HENQ Invest who gave Wakoopa a second financial boost. The Wakoopians will use this money for attracting a Ruby developer, interface designer, desktop developer and some international partners for further expansion.

It has been a year now since Wouter and Robert started their social software service which can be best described as the Last.fm for software. They’ve attracted 30.000 somewhat geeky early adopters and tracked 250 million hours of their software usage. That valuable data says a lot about the future of software, so it isn’t that surprising that Belgium Big Bang Ventures and Dutch Henq Invest have funded Wakoopa.

big bang ventures, funding, henq invest, menno van der sman, robert gaal, wakoopa, wouter broekhof

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