The PEEK Beacon (or Peekon) is a new feature that allows any user to post photos to a single page for anyone to see. The Peekons show up on the main screen as White Stars and they represent different cities around the globe. You don’t have to live in one of these cities to publish a photo so feel free to send a picture of your living room to Moscow, your pet to Tokyo or your Grandmother to Chicago. We are also working hard to make these into live Chat Rooms for any Peekster to indulge in. The Chat Room feature should be available in a few weeks but Photo Sharing is available now so have some fun and let us know what you think!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
'PEEKONS' Offer Users A Place To Meet
The PEEK Beacon (or Peekon) is a new feature that allows any user to post photos to a single page for anyone to see. The Peekons show up on the main screen as White Stars and they represent different cities around the globe. You don’t have to live in one of these cities to publish a photo so feel free to send a picture of your living room to Moscow, your pet to Tokyo or your Grandmother to Chicago. We are also working hard to make these into live Chat Rooms for any Peekster to indulge in. The Chat Room feature should be available in a few weeks but Photo Sharing is available now so have some fun and let us know what you think!
Friday, February 20, 2009
No 1 in Sweden! - Go PEEK Go!
Wow! This is amazing. We knew PEEK would be a hit, but we could never guess that it would top the charts in such a short period of time. Thank you Peeksters out there! Keep spreading the word and throw out your twitter-apps from your iPhones, they are so fourth quarter 2008...
Thursday, February 19, 2009
PEEK Hits #1 In Denmark!
Danes Know a Good Thing When They See ItRecent studies have revealed that Danes are among the most intelligent people in the world and today we have further proof. In a single day, PEEK shot all the way to the top of the charts for paid Social Apps on the Danish App Store. We have also moved up into the Top 5 in Sweden and Germany, proving there are highly intelligent and curious people everywhere. Seriously, a big “Thank You” goes out to ALL Peeksters for using, enjoying and sharing this app. Let’s keep the PEEK Revolution Rolling!!
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Italian Peekster Shares Emoji Hack for PEEK!
Many thanks go out to Bruno Federico, also known as ‘ic4’, a Peekster from Italy who turned us on to this great way of adding Emoji to PEEK. Now you can have a Huge assortment of playful icons to include in your text messages!
It takes a few steps but here are the complete instructions:
1) Go to the iPhone App Store and download “Spell Number – Emoji for Free”
2) Open the program and type in this exact number sequence: 9876543.21
3) Tap the “Return” key and close the Spell Number program
4) Go to Settings on your iPhone and open the following menus:
General / Keyboard / International Keyboards / Japanese
5) Turn the Emoji tab to “On” and exit settings
6) Now return to PEEK and when you go to type a message, you’ll see a Globe icon next to the space bar. Open this to find hundreds of great icons to use in your messaging. Be sure to look at every category and scroll through each one to see all the icons.
Good luck and a Thousand Thanks to Bruno for telling us about this excellent addition to your PEEK experience. Forza Azzurri!
Sunday, February 15, 2009
TOP 10 IN EUROPE!
From its launch just a few days ago PEEK has seen downloads from all over the world. In Europe, the app seems particularly strong in Germany and Sweden. We’re proud to say PEEK has cracked the TOP 10 LIST of paid social apps in both countries. U.S. downloads continue to rise as well and the positive reviews keep coming it.
We want to sincerely thank ALL of you who have downloaded and experimented with PEEK. Many of you have offered excellent feedback as well for which we’re very grateful. Our intention was to open with a fun and extremely simple app that just about anyone could figure out right away. Our goal was to get people using it first and then to evolve the app based upon the customers’ feedback. The PEEK crew thanks you! Keep spreading the word.
Friday, February 13, 2009
TWO DAYS AND STILL SMILING
The 48 Hour Report
I’m not the superstitious type but earlier in the week, the thought of today’s date did cross my mind. When you’ve got so much riding on something there’s a tendency to worry about things that would never otherwise think about. In our case it was things like: “What if Bill Gates decides to buy Apple and shuts down production just out of spite?” “Why did Tommy shave his head last month and start talking with increasing interest about Buddhist monasteries in Cambodia?” “What kind of affect do you think that asteroid hurling towards earth could have on iPhone sales?”
Those of you who have had children know that your overwhelming concern for that child’s safety and welfare can lead to the most bizarre cautionary scenarios that have little or no basis in reality. With that said, we have spent the last couple days glued to the computer in shifts just to make sure everything is running smoothly. Much to our relief, things have gone really well.
The steady stream of downloads is increasing with each day and the feedback we’re getting is extremely positive. To use the parenting theme again, the birthing process is over, mother and child are doing just fine, and we enter the weekend with the anticipation of watching baby PEEK taking her first steps.
C
I’m not the superstitious type but earlier in the week, the thought of today’s date did cross my mind. When you’ve got so much riding on something there’s a tendency to worry about things that would never otherwise think about. In our case it was things like: “What if Bill Gates decides to buy Apple and shuts down production just out of spite?” “Why did Tommy shave his head last month and start talking with increasing interest about Buddhist monasteries in Cambodia?” “What kind of affect do you think that asteroid hurling towards earth could have on iPhone sales?”
Those of you who have had children know that your overwhelming concern for that child’s safety and welfare can lead to the most bizarre cautionary scenarios that have little or no basis in reality. With that said, we have spent the last couple days glued to the computer in shifts just to make sure everything is running smoothly. Much to our relief, things have gone really well.
The steady stream of downloads is increasing with each day and the feedback we’re getting is extremely positive. To use the parenting theme again, the birthing process is over, mother and child are doing just fine, and we enter the weekend with the anticipation of watching baby PEEK taking her first steps.
C
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
THE ANATOMY OF A LAUNCH
A little back story…
In September of 2008, three guys sat in a Stockholm restaurant and started scribbling on a piece of paper. In about five month’s time, those barely legible scratchings would become the new iPhone application PEEK.
Actually, Peter and Tommy had been tossing around various ideas for about a year but they realized things were getting way too complicated. From experience with other apps they knew that too many functions often meant too much confusion on the part of the user – not to mention more things that could go wrong. So they went back to the drawing board and returned to basics.
Months of agonizing labor ensued. Tommy, PEEK’s programmer, essentially chained himself to the computer while Peter came up with all the design elements and slipped Tommy an occasional meal.
The third (and newest) addition to the team was Christer, your friendly blogger. You see, as critical as those other guys were, it was my contributions that were actually the most important to the success of the app. Since both Peter and Tommy have forgotten more about computers than I’ll ever know, I became the de facto Crash Test Dummy. Their motto was, “If Christer can understand it, then any knucklehead can figure this out.”
What emerged was PEEK, a very simple way of communicating with people all over the world…so easy even I can use it.
Wednesday, February 11th – PEEK goes live!
Okay so PEEK is finally ready to release and it has even been given the blessings of Apple. Now the real work begins. How do we compete with the other billion or so apps out there all jockeying for position in the vaunted App Store. Will they love us? Hate us? Even hear about us?
We made the decision to hold off on any press releases until we had it out for a few days. There was a feeling that we just wanted to see what would happen without any word at all. The three of us were talking on the eve of the opening when suddenly there was a download!
How did that happen? We’re not even launching until tomorrow morning! Oh yeah. It IS tomorrow morning on the other side of the world. Well that was a good sign – but no guarantee for future success. We tried to get some sleep that night knowing there wouldn’t be much in the days to come.
Wednesday was fantastic. Maybe people weren’t downloading PEEK by the tens of thousands but we were encouraged that these initial brave Peeksters were popping up all over the globe. Tommy had built a little tracker so we could observe where the downloads were going and it was so much fun every time the name of a new country would came up. Who knew they had iPhones in Bhutan?
So who’s Peeking? Who knows? Since it’s an anonymous app, you could be talking to anyone. In fact, a Washington insider today confirmed our suspicions that a user named Ewen Charge could be the president himself. We’ve already suggested “Free PEEK to all” as an essential component to any economic stimulus plan.
Happy Peeking! C
In September of 2008, three guys sat in a Stockholm restaurant and started scribbling on a piece of paper. In about five month’s time, those barely legible scratchings would become the new iPhone application PEEK.
Actually, Peter and Tommy had been tossing around various ideas for about a year but they realized things were getting way too complicated. From experience with other apps they knew that too many functions often meant too much confusion on the part of the user – not to mention more things that could go wrong. So they went back to the drawing board and returned to basics.
Months of agonizing labor ensued. Tommy, PEEK’s programmer, essentially chained himself to the computer while Peter came up with all the design elements and slipped Tommy an occasional meal.
The third (and newest) addition to the team was Christer, your friendly blogger. You see, as critical as those other guys were, it was my contributions that were actually the most important to the success of the app. Since both Peter and Tommy have forgotten more about computers than I’ll ever know, I became the de facto Crash Test Dummy. Their motto was, “If Christer can understand it, then any knucklehead can figure this out.”
What emerged was PEEK, a very simple way of communicating with people all over the world…so easy even I can use it.
Wednesday, February 11th – PEEK goes live!
Okay so PEEK is finally ready to release and it has even been given the blessings of Apple. Now the real work begins. How do we compete with the other billion or so apps out there all jockeying for position in the vaunted App Store. Will they love us? Hate us? Even hear about us?
We made the decision to hold off on any press releases until we had it out for a few days. There was a feeling that we just wanted to see what would happen without any word at all. The three of us were talking on the eve of the opening when suddenly there was a download!
How did that happen? We’re not even launching until tomorrow morning! Oh yeah. It IS tomorrow morning on the other side of the world. Well that was a good sign – but no guarantee for future success. We tried to get some sleep that night knowing there wouldn’t be much in the days to come.
Wednesday was fantastic. Maybe people weren’t downloading PEEK by the tens of thousands but we were encouraged that these initial brave Peeksters were popping up all over the globe. Tommy had built a little tracker so we could observe where the downloads were going and it was so much fun every time the name of a new country would came up. Who knew they had iPhones in Bhutan?
So who’s Peeking? Who knows? Since it’s an anonymous app, you could be talking to anyone. In fact, a Washington insider today confirmed our suspicions that a user named Ewen Charge could be the president himself. We’ve already suggested “Free PEEK to all” as an essential component to any economic stimulus plan.
Happy Peeking! C
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Peek is launching tomorrow!
The most exciting invention since the Chia Pet!
Peek is on iTunes Appstore tomorrow.
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