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Dealkeeper announcement & Market Survey

Today we like to give you a glimpse on Dealkeeper, the webservice we’re currently working on. At the moment we’re working hard on some conceptual details and strategies.

In our business we probably set up 5-10 deals per year and agree on Service Level Agreements a few more times than that. It’s common that there are questions when a customer or business partners sees the contract for the first time. The type of deal determines if there will be a lot of communications and changes to the initial contract. For example a deal to sell a copyright or webservice involves a different kind of level of commitment than a Service Level Agreement.

So this is where Dealkeeper comes in. Dealkeeper is a webservice that socialize and supports the process of making deals and signing contracts. A more transparant dealmaking process wil not only lower the burdon we experienced during dealmaking, we believe it potentially makes it more ‘fun’ and could speed things up. In order to be of help Dealkeeper will offer help with Dealmaking in different kind of ways.

As we are working on the concept and the first prototype we created a Market Survey. With this survey we’d like to collect some general data on how your experience with dealmaking is. It would be of tremendous help if you fill out this survey.

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Meet Quimly!

Today we had fun building Quimly, a little prototype in the field of ‘Social Searching‘. Inspired by the way Robert Scoble uses FriendFeed and Twitter to share his favorite sites and blogposts. We both use FriendFeed and Twitter, but experienced that there are two ‘islands of information’. Want to know more on ‘Ruby on Rails’? You need to go to two places, FriendFeed search and Twitter Search.

Quimly bridges the gap between the two by integrating the search results. When searching for ‘Ruby on Rails‘ on Quimly you will find both results from Twitter and FriendFeed. Sorted by timestamp, which mixes everything in the search results. My search for ‘Ruby on Rails’ resulted in this:

So we haven’t got any straight plans with the prototype at the moment. We can think of some nice features. For now we’ll leave it to a simpel search engine for both networks. Maybe we’ll add more networks, or start implementing new features.

As some of you might know, we love feedback on our projects. If you have feature requests, feedback or other comments. Please let us know!

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