After nearly 2 years of service, I’m shutting down uploading and voting on photos for mesomo. It’s been a great project with nearly 5.000 votes and about 10.000 subscribers. But now it’s time to move on and focus on new projects.
I want to thank all the users that contributed content and helped create a visual Zeitgeist of their favorite cities like Munich, London, Berlin, Paris, New York City and Rome.
There’s a great new resource for startups in Munich / Bavaria.
Munich StartupDigest is a curated weekly newsletter of the best startup events in town. It contains events like conferences, meetups, hackathons or anything else your web or mobile startup may need. The Startup Digest is a worldwide event newsletter which more than 250.000 entrepreneurs subscribe to in cities like San Francisco, Tokio, New York, Berlin, and now … Continue reading
It’s been nearly a year since I created the social website mesomo that allows people to submit photos from Munich. The user’s most favorite photo then becomes the photo of the day and is sent to more than five thousand subscribers on twitter, facebook and by e-mail. After the initial launch, I added some other cities which saw some great submissions. But Munich has remained the most active city, with lots of people submitting great photos on a regular basis.
So after it was suggested once again I thought I’d take the chance to organize a meet up for people to get to know each other, share knowledge about photography and have some drinks and chat.
Here’s my suggestion: Continue reading
muc7/mesomo was born 100 days ago. For the occasion of the 100th photo I wanted to finally take the time to create a much requested feature. Lots of people had asked for a way to integrate the photo into their homepage. So today muc7 is launching a widget that allows you to put the daily picture on your homepage. It’s just one line of HTML that you can put on your blog or homepage. It will display the current daily picture of Munich to your homepage visitors.
So here it is: Continue reading