SignalFive recently worked with US / China-based startup Zoomino on it’s new site design.  Previously, Zoomino’s site didn’t quite have the kick it needed, design-wise, to communicate it’s offering: a customizable, keyword-based in-text discovery engine that engages users, increases pageviews, and boosts advertising revenues. We re-strategized their offering, gave them new designs and marketing tools in the form of web videos, and helped them re-focus their message around the theme of ‘Zoomify your Site’.

The results are live at http://www.zoomino.com.

Zoomino - New Site Design

Links:

Zoomino on Crunchbase

Henrik Berggren was a developer of the growing SoundCloud site (working on the API) and now works at Doberman in Sweden.

Henrik Berggren

SoundCloud

T: One thing everyone wants to know about is SoundCloud..Could you describe your involvement, how you came into the project, how did this project start, who funded the development, how is it doing now?

H: Well I was first involved with it..first of all it’s founded by two Swedish guys, Eric Wahlforss and Alexander Ljung. They are both old schoolmates of mine, we went to the same University and I met them a few years back. They were interested in the web and they have been doing development for the web for some time, and so had I, so it was really a good match from the beginning. We started discussing how frustrated we were with MySpace - I was DJing a lot at the time, Eric is an old producer, and Alex has done a lot of film music and stuff. They had this idea of creating Flickr for music, basically. A place where can share music easily, MySpace was really bad, and there were some other projects but none of them were as good as Flickr is for photos.

SoundCloud

They started the company in Stockholm but after a while they moved to Berlin. At that point I decided to stay in Stockholm because I was a year behind them in school. So I decided to stay on and finish my Computer Science degree but then ended up going down next summer and wound up staying 9 or 10 month instead, working on their API. I lived in Berlin for 9 or 10 months basically and moved back to Stockholm a year ago almost. But interesting stuff has happened since then.

They have grown a lot, they were funded from the beginning by some business angels in Berlin and then I think last spring they raised a big round of funding from a British VC firm called..I can’t remember then name...I think it was 2.5M Euros or something like that. They are doing really really well and I stayed on..I’m not employed with them anymore but I am in close contact with Eric and Alex and another guy named Henrik who is now the chief of their API because I have developed a lot of services on top of their platform. I have always considered their platform to be the most interesting thing about the site because I’m not a musician or DJ anymore, I’m kind of an Internet guy and think there’s a lot of stuff you can do with a musical platform as good as SoundCloud is.

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Mobihealthnews.com Screenshot

Last week, we launched a blog site called Mobihealthnews.com (http://mobihealthnews.com/). It is published by Chester Street Publishing in Boston, MA. In their own words:

“Mobihealthnews chronicles the mobile revolution within the healthcare sector and tracks the rise of electronic health records–two trends that are shaping the future of how healthcare is delivered to the patient on-the-go, at home and at their place of care. We believe that both EHRs and mobile technology are already beginning to markedly change the business of healthcare, and our publications aim to define innovation and sustainable business models for mHealth and EHR providers. Of course, these aren’t future technologies: wireless data networks, biosensors, connected medical devices, feature-rich mobile phones and the mHealth services and applications these technologies enable are all in the market today, saving hospitals money and providing better care for patients.

The deluge of mHealth services, however, is just around the corner. Mobihealthnews is here to make sure you get the first peek.”

SignalFive planned, designed and developed the site in conjunction with the client’s directives. The main goals of the project were to develop a brand identity (including logo and design) and a website that the client can manage entirely by themselves on the back-end.

Mobihealthnews.com Screenshot

We’re very pleased to have completed this project, and we look forward to continuing our working relationship with Chester Street Publishing. Best of luck guys!

• “…your site has received a lot of compliments from people we’ve shown it to.”
• “Fantastic! Thanks again for your help…”

— Joseph Maillie, Director of Business Development, Chester Street Publishing