Friday, May 11, 2007
Here is the deal - we are a small startup trying to take on the likes of CL and other giants… we don’t have time to write import tools for the dozens of mail systems floating around the web… we have to keep our eye on the prize. BUT we knew when we launched our Tell-A-Friend marketing feature a couple weeks ago, we needed a way to let our merchants import their friends in a fast, easy, reliable and secure way.
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Friday, May 04, 2007
The Goom is amassing more and more fans… and not just Americans - we are worldwide, baby!
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Well, our crack team of developers have done it again! With our aptly named Gumiyo “Tell-a-Friend” Marketing Service, they have come up with a great new way for you to increase your ad traffic and generate more leads!
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Monday, April 30, 2007
As you all know, we built our entire production and development environments on Amazon’s EC2 and S3 services. We love them. Honestly. It was one of the best business decisions we’ve made at Gumiyo. And guess what? They love us too. Yep… we are the in the customer spotlight.
Just in case they move us out of the spotlight before you get to read more… read more
And just so you know, if you have any questions about our use of any of the amazon web services, please ask - we would be happy to let you know.
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Thursday, April 26, 2007
Gumiyo now has a component designed to warn a seller when a spammer is engaging them in order to phish their email address or private information. Here’s how it works:
1. We monitor every incoming communication from a buyer for suspicious activity. Next to every comment, the seller sees a country flag and a safety-level indicator. If you hover your mouse over the flag, and you will get the city and region of the prospective buyer.
2. We monitor the content of every posted communication for patterns used by spammers. When we detect a spammer we then:
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Thursday, April 19, 2007
You’ve heard the old saying about the early bird getting the worm. Well in this story the worm equals free advertising. Yep, old fashioned, no-catch, no-risk, no strings attached free advertising. We believe in the first-come, first-served approach to users community. You help us get our service off the ground by giving us feedback on our features and we give you some cool tools to help you get results from your classified ads.
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Thursday, April 12, 2007
Here is a list of more people who are discovering the heady goodness that is GUMIYO!
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Rick Mathieson of Branding Unbound posted a nice review of us today on his blog. He thinks we are a ‘mobile era eBay’. We are trying Rick - but it is getting easier every day with friends like you.
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Friday, April 06, 2007
Nothing makes us happier then hearing other excited users and reviewers! Here are just a few of many:
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Friday, April 06, 2007
Well, the folks at killerstartups.com seem to think so! In fact, they just gave us an idea for a new feature to make our mobile user experience just a little bit better. Stay tuned…
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Saturday, March 24, 2007
Yes! Gumiyo is now listed on Go2Web2.0, the complete web 2.0 directory (http://www.go2web20.net).
Thanks for Orli and her team!
Shuki
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Friday, March 23, 2007
If you happen to be in San Diego on Wednesday, March 28th and you have a propensity for wearing propeller hats, then we’d love to see you at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. Our very own Shuki Lehavi will be joining Mike Culver of Amazon Web Services during their session on Web Scale Computing. Click here for more information…
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Thursday, March 22, 2007
Here’s a special thanks to Mobilecrunch for giving us a write up on their influential Mobile 2.0 blog. I could go on and on, but you might as well see for yourself. Click here to read it…
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
JAJAH and Gumiyo cooperate to enable buyers and sellers to connect securely and efficiently by phone in the online marketplace.
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007
The first consumer-to-consumer mobile commerce site focuses on the connection between buyers and sellers.
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