September 27, 2007 par
Rupert Schiessl
We are glad to announce our new partnership with ooprint.com (ooprint.co.uk) which enables us to offer you 100 Ziki business cards for free!
You can chose between about 20 stylish card designs which have been specially created for our members. You’ll find a traditional web 1.0 version featuring your contact data, the web 2.0 card with your favorite personal tags or the more orginal web 3.0 edition which indicates the URL of your Ziki profile only 
Your business cards are already waiting for you from now on and you’ll get them for free - you just have to pay the postal fees (USD 5,90 for standard delivery or USD 7,20 by DHL).
The cards are available both from the US and UK. Just follow the links and have fun!
September 20, 2007 par
Rupert Schiessl
Thanks to Christophe Vergne (who calls himself Shadowkris) for this new API based tool. It allows us to display Ziki on our mobile phones.
Here is Christophe’s post, where you can get more info on the application. If you are connected with a mobile device you can access the application here or here.
In this (beta) version of the application you can use Ziki’s people search engine or display user profiles. You may also download your contact’s VCard directly to your phone.
Hava a look on Christophe’s blog if you’d like to know more (once again easier accessible for our French speaking readers )
September 18, 2007 par
Rupert Schiessl
Not even two months ago we launched our Ziki API and the first plugins are already born.
Thomas Bouron, who prefers to call himself Tomtom, a Dotclear specialist, was the first to bring out a plugin based on Ziki’s API. His application enables you to display your Ziki profile on your Dotclear V1 blog, or to look up other Ziki users’ profiles as well as their contacts, favorites, connections, stats or RSS feeds through the integrated search engine.
To implement this plugin you only have to run Dotclear version 1 and PHP 5. Have a look on Thomas’ blog to get a nice overview of his plugin’s features. He nearly completely reproduces the content of his Ziki profile for his readers.
For more information and the downloads please check out his blog.
Only a few days after, a similar plugin for Wordpress was released. Its author, Nicolas Hennion, also called Nicolargo, simply called it “ZikiPlugin” and lets us discover version 0.3 of his code. Thanks to Nicolas’ plugin, you may easily integrate your Ziki profile into the sidebar of your Wordpress blog. The current version allows you to show your picture with a link to your personal Ziki, your username as well as your first and last names and the various links displayed on your profile.
Of course, you’ll find more information and the download links on the author’s blog (which is more easily accessible for French speaking readers…).
We are sure that these two plugins are only the first examples of using the Ziki API and their authors are already considering new releases with complementary features. If you have any interesting ideas, don’t hesitate to contact them or, if you ever you feel ready, start developing your own Ziki API based application! We would be glad to present it on our blog soon!
