Congrats to Claudia Moore

Everyone at Tynt wants to extend our biggest congrats to Claudia Moore and her husband Mike as they welcome Cate (also known as Baby 1.0) into their family.  Claudia has been awesome to work with at Tynt as she has helped to craft our marketing materials and vision.

Claudia was also recently selected as one of Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40 (http://www.calgaryinc.ca/40under40/claudia-moore) a well deserved honor for someone who has put so much effort into everything she does. (in fact, they refer to her as the Superwoman Of The Calgary Tech Community!)

Way to go Claudia!

Tynt CEO Speaks on the Future of Social Networking at CCAT Event

I had the pleasure of speaking to the Calgary Council of Advanced Technologies breakfast seminar on the Future of Social Networking.  It was a fun, coffee-fueled morning.  TechVibes and OneDegree both covered the event and had some great things to say.  You can read them yourself via these links:

TechVibes

OneDegree

PRESS RELEASE: Canada’s Largest Social Network Acts as Launch Pad for Alberta-Born Internet Company

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Canada’s Largest Social Network Acts as Launch Pad for Alberta-Born Internet Company

Alberta born internet start-up, Tynt, announces first commercial deployment of leading overlay technology in partnership with Nexopia.com, Canada’s largest youth networking platform.

(October 9, 2008. Calgary, Canada) – Tynt today announced the launch of their new online communications overlay product as part of an exclusive integration partnership with Nexopia.com, Canada’s largest teen networking site. An innovator in online communities, Nexopia boasts over 1.3 million members and 1 billion pages served per month making them the largest Canadian platform as well as the second most trafficked internet company in the nation*.

Said Tynt CEO Derek Ball about the partnership with Nexopia: “One of Tynt’s primary goals is to help social networks increase user engagement by offering a fun and interactive communications tool. The Nexopia community is uniquely creative and highly communicative so we felt right away that our product was the perfect fit- and it’s great having Canada’s largest teen network right in our own backyard.”

Tynt’s next generation social application allows users to add their personality, humor and creativity on top of web pages and share it with friends. Branded as “Graffiti” on Nexopia, the partnership is aimed at offering users unique functionality that they won’t find on communities like Facebook and Myspace. User growth has already proved tremendous over the first week with the number of “Graffiti” created topping 20,000 in just 7 days.

Said Nexopia CEO Boris Wertz of the partnership: “Our members are always on the lookout for creative ways to stay connected. Tynt’s product adds great value to the Nexopia experience and we’re very excited to see how quickly it’s being adopted.”

About Tynt

Tynt develops leading edge Web 2.0 products that allow social networks and other online communities increase user engagement and maximize revenue. Tynt was founded in 2007 by a team of experienced entrepreneurs in Calgary. The company is privately funded by its founders and a select few angel investors.

About Nexopia

Founded in 2003 by 18 year old Timo Ewalds, Nexopia.com has since become the most popular social networking utility for Canadian youth with over 1.3 million registered members and over a billion pages served per month. Always a passionate innovator, Nexopia is dedicated to developing new technologies to help young people stay connected with friends as well as express themselves online.

GeoCentric PodCast uses Tynt For Research

Hat tip and thanks to John Newman and Nate Long from Geocentric (http://bringthemagic.com/geocentric/) for using Tynt for their podcast research and telling their audience about what a great tool it is!

A few quotes from their show:

” I have discovered a Firefox extension that I cannot live without I am using it to help myself keep notes on websites.  Its called TYNT.  I highly recommend it.  You sign up with an account and it will let you go in an highlight sections of a web page and save them for you and you can pull them up later.  It lets you leave notes for yourself.  Its great!” <John>

“I am pretty jealous cause I just have a bunch of tabs open and nothing cool like John.”

“Yeah, its awesome, you can make speech and thought bubbles. It even has political campaign stickers. AND you can email it to your friends.” <John>

” I am going to be all over it for the next show…” <Nate>

“We would like to give a shoutout to Friends at Tynt.com. “

Check out their show at http://bringthemagic.com/geocentric/

Tynt VP Biz Dev wins Top 40 Under 40 Award

A big congratulations to Kerri Knull who was selected from a huge pool of candidates as one of the Top 40 Under 40 in Calgary (a city of well over a million people).  We’re proud of your Kerri!  You can read Kerri’s details in Calgary Inc.’s Magazine at this link http://tynted.com/0LW5YMsK30b

Derek Ball speaking at CCAT Breakfast

For anyone in the Calgary area interested in hearing some of our thoughts on the evolution of social media, I’m speaking at the CCAT breakfast on Oct 15th.  TechVibes discusses the event here. Details on the event and cost are on the CCAT Website.

Tynt and IVAC connect

TechVibes posted this link yesterday of the IVAC AGM.  Tynt was there as IVAC is participating in Tynt’s current financing round (stay tuned for details on this in this blog in the near future!).

Marketing Finger Story: Help I’ve Been Tynted!

Marketing Finger did a nice write up on Tynt this week, saying that Tynt:

“…  could also be a great way to communicate feedback on web page usability or content.”

Good little story, still a bit of urban myth in the community about Tynt and scraping, which Derek Ball nicely clarifies and Tynts.

Tynt Reviewed on TechnoSpot

Ashish Mohta did a review of Tynt with some nice screen shot examples of Tynt in action.

“Over all Tynt has made a nice approach to sharing the web page. Integrating appls like twitter will be rocking for them.”

Techvibes story: Ready? Set. Tynt!

Stephen King of Techvibes had breakfast with Derek Ball, our CEO and wrote this story about us.  A nice plug for Tynt, and a nice plug for Eat Eat!(a great restaurant if you’re ever in Inglewood btw).