Media Guild Blog

Moop Mobility joins Mediaguild in Amsterdam to further enhance and develop their young technology company. Mediaguild will ensure the business support and further professionalization of the creative starter.

Moop Mobility is a collective of a number of young iPhone en Android developers. Jelle Prins received national and international acclaim with mobile applications like iNap and Lyrics and won the second prize of the international Google Android Developer Challenge in 2009. Co-founder Philip Plotnikov developed the iPhone application for the leading Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant.

Mediaguild has already helped many promising startups like Mijn Naam is Haas, VirtuaGym and Postmachina. Moop Mobility is the latest member within Mediaguild.

“We are delighted to have Moop Mobilty bringing a bunch of young and creative entrepeneurs to Pakhuis de Zwijger that will inspire each other but also Mediaguild!” says Edo Broeksma, business manager of Mediaguild.

More information on Moop Mobility can be found at:

www.moop.me

Iconomical have been working on software and UI for an audiovisual multi-touch table installation.

This collaborative work between Iconomical, Studio Sophisti and Muziek Centrum Nederland will be hosted next week at the Bimhuis, to mark the residency of the Instant Composer’s Pool, featuring Mischa Mengelberg and Han Bennink, godfathers of Dutch improvisational music. Come over and see the magic!

The serious game of Mijn naam is Haas is expanding at the moment. This fall a picture book and CD-ROM of Haas will be available in stores. And after winning a huge amount of money with M&ICT the start-ups can scale up their concept.

By winning the M&ICT contest Mijn naam is Haas can make their game more suitable to the subject materials of primary school. Next to that the Guild Members are working on an edition of the online game to play at home, which is more effective for wiping out language arrears. With a picture book and CD-ROM, published with Bruna, on top of that there’s no way to not know about the Mijn naam is Haas empire. No wonder they’ve appeared at the national news programma RTL Nieuws. This week they’re also editor-in-chief at idealize.nl. Lot’s of exposure, obviously!

The online sports platform VirtuaGym came up with some new apps this month. A new menu, activity updates, a link to Twitter and the possibility to become a Pro Member. Quite some fancy changes!

From now on you can become a Pro Member on VirtuaGym. PRO Members got access to more functionalities. If you become a Pro Member now, you’ve got the option to become a Pro Member forever. Curious? Check out the site for more info.

If you want to connect your VirtuaGym account to Twitter look here for the details.

Not a member yet? Sign up for a fitter life at VirtuaGym.com!

My Name is E’s official iPhone application, ‘E for iPhone’, became available at
the iTunes Store today. The service allows users to create digital business cards, integrated with their social
networking profiles, which they can share on-line or in real life by using a mobile phone or their conferenceaimed
hardware ‘Connector’. (more…)