Nomadesk iPhone App Is “In Review”
July 12, 2010 by Filip Tack · Leave a Comment
Excitement! We finally pushed our iPhone app through the Nomadesk QA department – tough guys. Now, we just received word that our app is in review by Apple. All ten fingers crossed (ouch)!
Are we late to the party? I don’t believe so. We simply took the time to build an app that really fits the existing Nomadesk experience. As such Nomadesk for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad will allow you to:
- Access all your documents, pictures, music, etc.
- Share Files and Folders with a download link
- Upload pictures (existing ones or direct from your iPhone camera) to share and sync
- View documents, pictures, slideshows
- Share your Nomadesk Fileserver and manage guest permissions
- Sign up to Nomadesk and create Fileservers
- Track your computer(s) on Google Maps and remotely shred your Nomadesk files with Nomadesk Theftguard
So, soon you will be able to download the Nomadesk app from the iTunes AppStore. We can hardly wait to get your feedback, after all this is but “version one”.
Nomadesk 4.0 Reviewed By PC Magazine
June 9, 2010 by Filip Tack · Leave a Comment
Michael Muchmore, PC Magazine’s lead analyst for software and Web applications reviewed the latest Nomadesk release.
Here are but a few of his “discoveries”:
“Nomadesk goes beyond other syncing and file-sharing services, creating a complete virtual disk… If you just want a virtual drive synched to your PCs and the cloud, Nomadesk is worth a look.”
“A big green button on the Nomadesk webpage offers live support with an engineer in a chat window. There’s also e-mail and phone support (CET office hours only). For a Web service, these avenues are quite generous. Indeed, I got a tech rep in my chat box in seconds.”
“If the idea of anywhere access to your digital assets appeals to you, Nomadesk is worth checking out. After all, spending $50 per year to sync a full hard drive’s worth of data is a much better deal than the Syncplicity’s $15 a month for 50GB. It’s also cheaper than PC Mag Editors’ Choice Dropbox, which costs $100 a year for 50GB.”
Nomadesk Rewards Customers For Referrals
June 8, 2010 by Filip Tack · Leave a Comment
Today we rolled out a brand new referral program, which encourages friends of 
users to join Nomadesk. The Nomadesk user who refers and the friend who joins will each receive a $15 discount to apply to their subscription or to purchasing additional Team or Personal Fileservers.
Friends will be invited to test drive Nomadesk with a free 30-day trial, and when they purchase a $15/month Team Fileserver subscription or $50/year Personal Fileserver subscription they will receive a $15 incentive to apply to their next Nomadesk bill along with the person who invited them. And, you can continue to receive $15 bonuses for every friend who subscribes to Nomadesk, based on your referral. Invite friends through Facebook or email and begin experiencing the rewards.
Generating your personal referral link is actually very simple. Just log on to myNomadesk.com, click the “Refer a friend bonus” link and then follow the instructions – easy enough!
Nomadesk Summer Fun Photo Sharing Promo
June 1, 2010 by Filip Tack · Leave a Comment
Get a Free Eye-Fi Card with a 1- year Team Fileserver or 2-year Personal Fileserver subscription!
Today we announced a Summer Fun Promotion throughout the month of June 2010, which will give our customers who pre-pay for
a new one-year Team Fileserver subscription or a new two-year Personal Fileserver subscription a free Eye-Fi Connect X2 4GB card (valued at $49).
By bundling Nomadesk with an Eye-Fi card, customers will receive the ability to automatically safeguard their memories to the Nomadesk cloud and synchronize their photos to their computers for easy storage and sharing; video uploads to the Nomadesk cloud will be supported soon.
So, rather than downloading photos through a memory card that you connect directly into your computer, Nomadesk now brilliantly works with Eye-Fi to remotely save photos into the Nomadesk file server without having to physically import them from your digital camera memory card. And for just $180 a year for a Nomadesk Team Fileserver or $100 for two years of a Personal Fileserver, you can get unlimited storage (Fair Use).
By the way, you might want to use the “Nomadesk Web Site Widget” to automatically post your photos on your web site or blog, directly from your camera; much like what we have done here below – utter coolness!
Nomadesk Selected As A Red Herring Top 100 Europe Tech Startup
May 22, 2010 by Filip Tack · Leave a Comment
Paris, France – Red Herring announced its Top 100 Award in recognition of the leading private companies from Europe, celebrating these startups’ innovations and technologies across their respective industries.
Red Herring’s Top 100 Europe list has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising new companies and entrepreneurs. Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce.com, YouTube, and eBay would change the way we live and work.
“Choosing the companies with the strongest potential was by no means a small feat,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “After rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed our list down from hundreds of candidates from across Europe to the Top 100 Winners. We believe Nomadesk embodies the vision, drive and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture. Nomadesk should be proud of its accomplishment, as the competition was very strong.”
Red Herring’s editorial staff evaluated the companies on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, management quality, strategy, and market penetration. This assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the track record and standing of startups relative to their sector peers, allowing Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list a valuable instrument of discovery and advocacy for the most promising new business models in Europe.
Nomadesk Took Part In Webmission 2009
November 15, 2009 by Filip Tack · Leave a Comment
This weekend Nomadesk took part in the webmission for Belgian entrepreneurs, journalists bloggers and Internet enthusiasts, interested in promoting themselves in the Spanish speaking markets (Spain and Hispanic America).
The event took place in the beautiful city of Seville, Spain, and was part of Evento Blog España. With over 1500 attendees, this is the second largest event in Europe about the Participative Web.
Webmission 2009 proved to be an excellent opportunity for Nomadesk to present itself to the Spanish speaking audience, to extend networks, and to open up to new ideas. In general, it seems that our company has developed a special bond with Spain, having previously won the Innovate!Europe 2009 contest in Zaragoza.
Nomadesk’s Technical Operations Manager Stijn Wijndaele did a great job explaining the audience what Nomadesk is all about and demonstrated our competitive advantage over Box, Dropbox and GoogleDocs. His presentation is available below:
What’s it like to run a startup?
October 26, 2009 by Filip Tack · 1 Comment
I’ve been asked a zillion times what it is like to be part of a start-up company. For sure I should have written on the topic a long time ago. Still, it would have been a single man’s view, involved in one particular company/project – pretty tainted, right.
Today I came across a post by Paul Graham that simply blew me away and overclasses all academic “mumbo jumbo”, one usually gets to digest. Remember, there’s more people working on/around start-ups than in start-ups (i.e., government, consultants, etc.).
Anyway Paul’s post neatly describes what the Nomadesk team has been living through and I really wanted to share this with you as a “must read”: http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html
Paul Graham is one of the partners in Y Combinator - a well known incubator.