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Till and I are on our way home from what seemed to be the hottest place on earth this weekend: BarCamp Hamburg. It was at least 33°C/ 91°F and most rooms did not have an AC. Besides that it was really great to meet so many other founders in person. All the sessions we attended were also very interesting.
I gave a little video interview for Andreas for his blog easn – everything a StartUp needs – which should be available on his blog in a little while and I will, of course, post the link here once he uploaded it; even though I’m really not used to seeing myself on video. Does anyone like to see him or herself on video or is it just me? Anyways, it was fun.
We really want to thank all the people who organized the camp, all the sponsors (well, Frosta’s catering wasn’t exactly what my stomach wanted this weekend judging by the cramps I had today), all the bloggers who wrote about it, took pictures, and also made videos, as well as everyone who held one of the interesting sessions.
I’m sure we will head to Cologne for the BarCamp coming up in August.
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The German business weekly ‘Wirtschaftswoche’ covers social commerce in its current issue and calls it “the hottest trend.” Iliketotallyloveit.com is also being mentioned: “In the US the company is deemed as one of the hottest internet newcomers.” Well, we definitely wouldn’t mind that! 
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Yesterday we went online with a couple of new features. Maybe the first things you will notice are that Silke did an amazing job in improving the design and that there is now a feedback system on our site. Feel free to drop us a line on what you think about the the update, how we should improve the site or what you like best.
But most important is the the new posting system which automatically grabs the image from the product-page itself instead of asking you to upload an image. Which was – I admit it – annoying at best. Aside from the image-grabbing the new system also suggests the title, category and price-range for a product, shows you a live preview of the product and finally, there is no step 3 anymore.
Just in case you think that even two steps are overkill you better get the updated bookmarklet which reduces the whole posting posting process to a single step. In case you bookmarked it before yesterday go and get the new version which fills marked text from the original product page into our description field.
Last but not least we added a new dynamic LoveIt-button to our tools section which you can integrate in your site. The dynamic button shows the actual number votes that a product received directly on your site.
