Happy times. After yesterday’s introduction of Jalbum as our initial partner we’re very exited bringing on another two great partners today.

23

23 is the visual sharing company. Its products help individuals, groups, businesses and institutions to act visually in more than 200 countries across the globe on a daily basis.

Twitxr

Twitxr is a mobile photosharing service that lets users easily share pictures and status updates from any mobile phone with their friends on Twitxr, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Picasa. Twitxr has a great iPhone app with automatic geotagging of pictures, plus Windows Mobile and Java applications for most cameraphones around. Additionally users can send pictures and text updates using any mobile device via email and mobile web.

We really look forward working with these fantastic sites, their users, and the people behind.

Much of the team in our Malmö office was away last Thursday and Friday for the reboot10 conference across the Öresund bridge in Copenhagen. And what an event. The sheer amount of fantastic sessions, conversations, and new friends of Polar Rose, is staggering and is still being digested.

This post is really just meant as a quick shout of thanks from us at Polar Rose to Thomas, Pernille, and the big crew of volunteers. No one puts it better than Nick Black from CloudMade:

Reboot is one of the few conferences I’ve been to which is genuinely engaging, stimulating, well planned and well executed.

ps. Polar Rose was a reboot10 supporter. Some might call this a sponsorship, but our real contribution was not what we might have chipped in with, but the after- after- party that Mikkel managed to get off the ground outside Vega on Friday night. Needless to say, no party is really good unless busted by the police. ;-)

We’ll be experiencing some smaller outages to both the Polar Rose website and plugin over the next three days as we do some upgrades. Thanks for your patience.

Update: First stage is done. We have a new plugin out for all beta-users. Tell your Firefox to search for updates or restart your IE to get it. Hope you like it! More to come in the next few days…

We’re proud that our colleague in the Computer Vision team Mohammad Jowkar, won the award for best Master’s Thesis from the Danish Computer Science Society.

Mohammad joined Polar Rose just a year ago after having played around with our PS3’s to prove the points in his thesis, and is now the driving force behind our Internet Expolorer plugin and the open source C++ cometd library that we’ll be releasing soon.

Congratulations Mohammad!

Whether you want to make a voyage to Greenland, conquer K2 or build a next generation web application you have to find place where you can prepare for new challenges, consult with your friends and get motivated. You need a Base Camp!

Two weeks ago the Polar Rose team in Warsaw moved to the new Base Camp. It was a really fun expedition! Imagine a group of geeks who use sophisticated tools like ropes and chewing gum to move a bed into a room on the fifth floor. Ufff… no pain no gain!

We are now settled, equipped and ready to continue our expedition to build a kick ass web application!