Well, we are 21 days into 2010 and we thought it was well about time for some updates. Anybody reading this blog may have been wondering where we've been hiding, well we are all here and Listiki is going strong.

It has been a busy start and although we were planning to have a private beta launch at the end of this month, it has been postponed, but for good reasons. We have actually come up with a better way for Listiki to work and this will change the initial way that lists and information is organized.

Using "Prototype A" and really getting a feel for it allowed us to question and give Listiki some useful feedback which led to the new concept. So, it was after much discussion along the lines of "what we could do is..." and "how about if..." and "it would be so cool if we could..." which led to this break through idea which was discussed and drawn up over coffee.

This new idea has since been been discussed with our partners at the Openfund, the flowcharts have been sketched up and the spec has been written and now they lie in the hands of our trusty developer who so far has been doing a great job - thanks Aleksey!

We are confident that these changes will totally engage Listiki users. Which reminds me, if you haven't yet signed up for the beta you really should do so now.

In other news, earlier this month we were pleased to see that TechCrunch Europe posted an article regarding the four first start-ups to be selected by the Openfund. The four startups that were mentioned were YouScan, Crawdout, Fashinating and our very own Listiki.

The beginning of our year was immediately brightened when Dimitris Kalavros Gousiou for TechCrunch Europe said:

Listiki, Openfund’s third choice is perhaps the most promising of the four winners...

We're humbled especially considering the great businesses being built alongside ours. You can read that article here if you haven't already.