With 231’235 daily printed editions and over 30’000 daily online readers Blick is the second biggest newspaper in Switzerland. In 2010 they decided to develop several IPhone and IPad applications, which are available at the ITunes store. Some of these applications went straight to number one with over 60’000 downloads in 2 weeks, in Switzerland alone. To support these new additions, there is a webpage where you can read about the features, find release dates for updates and new applications, or subscribe a newsletters to be informed about every interesting development.

Project Information:
Technology: PHP | Mysql | Javascript
Url: http://www.blick-apps.ch
Client: Ringier AG
Agency: Station

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The famous swiss branch Migros is the official sponsor of 6 different Summer music festivals.
We’ve developed a website which offers information about all the events and concerts, and added engaging games and personalized e-cards. It was organized in 3 groups:
a) Calendar listing – containing festival information, concerts’ timetables, etc.
b) Online games – the 15 top scores would receive a prize.
c) Social network game – select your favorite festival and build a virtual tent, then invite 3 friends to join in. By uploading a photo of yourself and then gather votes for your tent, (by posting it onto your Facebook wall and/or sending the e-card via e-mail). The most rated tent would get free passes for the festival of choice, as well as a real tent to take, big enough to fit 4 people, with food, drinks and special kits.

Project Information:
Technology: PHP | Mysql | Flash AS3 | Xml | Javascript
Url: http://www.m-festivals.ch/
Client: Migros
Agency: Station

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The redesign for the heineken.ch website was particularly interesting, since we had a set of challenging tasks. The goal was to transform the existing Heineken webpage into a ‘music & sports’ online platform.
Heineken sponsors major sports and music events, throughout the world, offering helpful details, insights and general information, such as venues, prices, dates, etc. For this purpose, and high-demanding information, we focused ourselves on developing a ‘power-tool’ where our client could get their communication out to the public, and show the range of their different activities.

Flexible and modular are the keywords for the framework we’ve developed with Flash and PHP, turning the platform into a unlimited and resourceful tool, ever growing and evolving. In my opinion, the content will be immense in a short period of time and in different levels of interest.

One of the coolest features is the Heineken online radio stream, we’ve built into the website, very ‘in-tune’ with the cool green brand.

Project Information:
Technology: html | actionscript 3 | javascript | php | mysql
Url: http://www.heineken.ch
Client: Heineken Switzerland
Agency: Station

Shop:
Another new available development is the Heineken Shop, built with Magento e-commerce. This online shop offers a range of cool Heineken products, such as beach items, bar and pub fashion, and cool T-shirts.

Project Information:
Technology: html |  javascript | php | mysql
Url: http://shop.heineken.ch
Client: Heineken Switzerland
Agency: Station

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We have developed a Facebook application called ‘Easter Egg App’.

The objective is to decorate an ‘egg’ with a picture taken using a webcam. The face/image is captured in the application and automatically adjusted to the shape of an egg. Once the picture is ready, it can be posted onto your Facebook Wall.
The overview page shows a random colorful selection of the ‘eggs’ from the entire collection.

Project Information:
Technology: html | Fbml | javascript | flash | php | mysql
Url: http://apps.facebook.com/eggyourself/
Client: Station
Agency: Station

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Long before IPhones and Nexus, there was was little thing called the PDA. Back in 2005, I developed my first ever mobile application for a client called Infarmed. Infarmed, is a portuguese pharmaceutical entity, which controls medical legislation. The application contained medical lexicon, medical jargon, and it is still available for download in the following link. The main technological challenge I had was to downsize the database, to speed up the performance while running on a very slow PDA. It runs as a standalone and you do not need a connection to the Internet.

Project Information:
Technology: C & SQL CE
Url: http://www.infarmed.pt/
Client: Infarmed
Agency: Novabase

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4 months after the new flash page, we finally got our new alternative HTML WEB PAGE up and running. After all the good feedback from the Flash Web Page it was hard to get a HTML solution that was looking good. But I think we mastered this task well. Have a look

Project Information:
Technology: html | javascript | xml | php | mysql
Url: http://www.station.ch
Client: Station
Agency: Station

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4 WordPress Projects we did in 2009 and I am still a fan of WP, it is easy to use and a perfect solution for fast results. Using WP and some of the modules we turned out 4 web sites that offer the user some nice fatures: Videostream, MP3 Playlist, Flash Menus, Newsletters, multi language.

Project Information:
Technology: PHP (Worpress) | Mysql | Flash AS3
Url: www.bligg.ch ; www.ewzpowerteam.ch ; www.swissnoso.ch ; www.logic2magic.com
Client: Bligg ; Ewz ; Swissnoso
Agency: Station

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We just finished the 4th Drupal Project, this are my first steps with Drupal and I can’t say it was easy. Drupal is definitely not an easy CMS to use and causes a slow learning curve. It seamed all to come together, the enormous amount of tables and a difficult modular structure of Drupal, the clients’ requirements and the hosting. Even so the International team was up to the task, and turned out 4 really cool web platforms that offer the user all kind of feathers: Online-Shop, Videostream, high-secure data transfer, 45kb modem optimized websites, multi language. You can find it all.

Project Information:
Technology: PHP (Drupal) | Mysql | Flash AS3
Url: www.minimalillusions.com ; www.osloforum.org ; www.beldona.ch ; www.gdi.ch
Client: Minimalillusions ; Osloforum ; Beldona ; Gdi
Agency: Station

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In 2008, I had the opportunity to create 2 online games for the web portal, Autoscout24: ‘Hot Cars Quartet’ and ‘Hot Cars Cover’.

In ‘Hot Cars Quartet’, you’d be given a set of cards and some starting points as credits, in a ‘Magic the Gathering’ style. You could use these points to buy new cards and, if sufficient, a real car. To collect points, the gamer had to collect 4 cards of every car model in a ‘Player vs Player’ mode and using 4 random cards of the deck. By comparison of different features of the automobile, one of players would take its opponents’s card and hence, add a new card to the deck. This game was an acclaimed international success and won the Silver Medal in the online & mobile campaigns category in the 2009 edit of ‘Best of Swiss Web’.

The ‘Hot Cars Cover’ was based on a photo model’s fashion shoot, in which you’re able to personalize your own magazine cover.  After you chose your favorite model, you could upload a photo of your car or motorbike and you had a range of 5 different cover templates to startup, as well as the 5 best pictures of the photo session. In the last step, you were able to compose, resize, move, add text, and change colors in your magazine cover. The final result could then be sent to friends via e-mail and / or downloaded for printouts or background images.

Project Information:
Technology: Actionscript 2 | Mssql | Flash AS2 | Xml
Client: Autoscout24
Agency: Maxomedia

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This is the 4th Edition “…mania.ch” campaign from Migros.ch and it was a Fun Project to do. One can learn about Switzerland while playing different games and by collecting dominos. By clicking on each of the 26 cantons existing on the map of Switzerland, one has to answer a quiz about the designated canton. We selected 10 Tourist attractions and made 10 Games based upon them.

You can play against your friends, play for your Canton and compete for the overall high score. The more points you get, the more your canton will move up in “the Battle of the Swiss Cantons”. We approached as well Facebook and made 2 Facebook games, this was totally a new experience for me and a lot of fun. After 4 running weeks, I’ve realized the amount of success achieved with this project. Here’s a sample of the astonishing statistics we are witnessing: 193 qps (query/second); about 100 000 games a day.

Project Information:
Technology: Actionscript 3 | PHP | MySQL | XML
Url: http://www.dominomania.ch
Client: Migros
Agency: Station

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