Network Focused Design Workshop in Bilbao
Sara Córdoba Rubino, researcher and designer in Booreiland, will lead a workshop on “Network Focused Design” in Bilbao next May 23. The focus of the workshop will be the design and development of products and services interconnected to innovate and be more competitive in a increasingly connected market.
The main objective of the workshop is to seek answers to questions such as:
How can we identify networks around brands, products or services to all its agents - consumers, producers, intermediaries, and exchanges the value that is generated each time you interact with them?
How can we use the flow of information from the Web to identify and design new products and services for these new markets-networks as they have done Nike +, Fedexand Fitbit among others?
Sara Córdoba Rubino is co-author of Meta Products: Meaningful Design for Our Connected World (2011) and is an international speaker expert on the topic of Network Focused Design (NFD).
The CEO and founder of Symplio, Iñaki Vázquez, will participate in the workshop. During his speech he will present an overview of the development processand conceptualization of our product “Rymble” and how it fits within the concept of Internet of Things. He will present further details on the current state of Rymble and projects and plans for future release.
The event is organized by Bilbao Design Academy and is primarily aimed at design professionals and heads of R&D related to networked environments in fields related to design and innovation. More information about the workshop here
Source: Bilbao Design Academy
Symplio will attend to the International Congress of Digital Citizenship
Symplio will participate as a speaker at the International Congress of Digital Citizenship to be held in the Kursaal Conference Centre in Donosti, San Sebastián, on Tuesday and Wednesday 8 and May 9.
The focus of the event is the Internet beyond its instrumental character, that is to say its use not only as a way of finding information and learning, but its transformation into a tool that works to connect the public network. This means let go of old ideas and adopt new ways to get around in the various fields that make up our society.
Iñaki Vázquez, CEO and Founder of Symplio will be responsible for presenting the vision of the company about “New Business models based on Internet of Things”. The conference will be divided into four thematic areas namely: Governance and Citizenship, Education 2.0, Social Media and Enterprise and Competitiveness.
Some companies will also participate as speakers are: Adtriboo, Grupo BBVA,Virtualware, Google, Klout, Myspace, Educacontic.es, Wiseri.com, Ideas4all, Actionable, The Cocktail and others. Also present will be Dra. María Luz Guenaga Gómez, Head Research of the Unit of Deustotech Learning at the University of Deusto and the Principal Investigator of the Faculty of Engineering, Diego Lopez de Ipiña.
For more information, please go directly to the Website of the event here
Symplio will participate in the International Internet of Things Event
Our CEO, Iñaki Vázquez, will be presenting the vision of Symplio about creating Internet-connected social objects, in the International IOT Event.
The IOT Event will held next 6 of June in The Netherlands and will focus on two Internet of Things cases: The individual and The Home. The topics that will be covered during the conference are:
- What are actual business cases for IoT in Healthcare, Consumer Electronics, Utilities and Automotive and how will this impact business in the future
- What is the current status of IoT technologies, how do they compete and are they complementary.
- Who takes the lead in the value chain of IoT
- What are legal, social and IP consequenses of IoT
Pachube, Ericsson, GreenPeak Technologies, Ocean Observations, Dect Forum, IPSO Alliance and ZigBee Alliance are other of the companies that will be participating at the IOT Event. Here you can consult the complete event program.
For more information about the IOT Event visit the oficial site
Meet another member of our team
We want to introduce you to Daniel Donet, another team member in Symplio. Daniel has several months working with us on the emotional and functional aspects of our products. He analyzes our users and their social context, with the goal to transform our products into meaningful experiences.
Daniel has a Degree in Social Sciences and has been working in the R&D department of several universities and companies.
Symplio has two new team members
We are pleased to announce that our team keep growing. Recently, two new members have joined to the working group of Symplio to collaborate on development of our business strategy.
We introduce you our new team members:
María Alejandra Ortíz, Business Analyst
Maria Alejandra is in charge of analyzing prospective markets and designing the associated strategy. She is graduate in Business Administration, specialized in Marketing, and she´s studying a Global MBA. Loves to dance and her hobby is horseback ridding.
Cynthia Dueñas, Business Analyst
Cynthia is in charge of analyzing and designing business operations for our products and platforms. Her duties include analyzing market, financial statement and possible distribution channels for our products. She has an B.A in Marketing, B.A in Hotel Management and she is a candidate for Global MBA in Eseune
Happy Holidays!
2011 has been a year of work and consistent effort, full of satisfaction and significant achievements. During this year we have shaped our ideas and developed part of our project in Symplio. We are very pleased with all the successes we have achieved and that is why we want to share our joy with you for the Christmas holidays.
This December Santa Claus showed up a little bit ahead of time and left us a great gift as a reward for all the work we’ve done. Rymble -the first product that we introduced to the market last July- has been chosen as the best Internet of Things ”Consumer Product” of 2011. Next year we hope to give you some good news and we will bring many more surprises.
All the Symplio team want to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Rymble was chosen as the best Internet of Things Consumer Product of 2011
Rymble was selected as the best Internet of Things ”Consumer Product” in 2011.The competition organized by Postscapes, tried to select the best projects, ideas and companies currently working on projects that help develop the Internet of Things.
Rymble participated in the category of best “Consumer Product” competing with other reference of its kind as Olly, Nest, Sifteo, Goose Green, Twine, Botanicalls, Karotz, Withings and Little Printer.
Symplio was the only Spanish company nominated in some of the 9 categories of IOT Postscapes Awards. The competition was open from November 22 until Friday December 16 and in total there were over 16,000 votes distributed among the different categories: Technical Development, Enterprise Implementation, Environmental Implementation, DIY Project, Networked Art, Self Tracking Product, Desing Fiction, Open Source Project and Consumer Products.
Postscapes is a reference site in the world of Internet of Things, which seeks to meet the needs of people interested in Internet technologies. This website includes news, events, information and training material related to Internet of Things and tracks people, businesses and projects that work to mature this new trend.
Thanks to everyone who voted for us. Soon we will have news about Rymble.
Rymble is nominated for the Internet of Things Award 2011
Rymble has been nominated to compete for the “Internet of Things Awards 2011″-contest organized by Postcapes- that seeks to honor the best projects, companies and ideas that are helping to develop the Internet of Things.
The competition is divided into 9 categories in which there will be a winner in each. Rymble is competing in the category of ”Consumer Products” with other products as Olly, Nest, Sifteo, Green Goose, Twine, Botanicalls, Karotz and Withings.
The other categories of the competition are: Technical Development, Enterprise Implementation, Enviromental Implementation, DIY Project, Networked Art, Self Tracking Product, Desing Fiction and Open Source Project.
Voting is open now until next December 16. Each person can vote 3 times for the product or project of their choice. We invite you to vote for Rymble here.
Soon we will have new news about Rymble. Thank you all for voting for us and make our project a reality!
Symplio celebrates its first anniversary!
A year ago we began to travel the road of designing product experiences, merging the physical world with the Internet and today we can say that we are very pleased of all the work we have done all these months and all we have achieved in just one year.
We are 100% confident about the path we want to explore and so we mainly develop “social objects”, that is to say, products using the information on Internet to be smarter and more collaborative, transforming the user’s environment in a more personal and emotional space. A few months ago we announced our first product, “Rymble” an object that brings the social networking experience to the real world.
The news of the announcement of Rymble achieved great impact on international media, mainly in the U.S., China, France, Italy and the UK. We got thousands of video views and visits to the website of Rymble, hundreds of mentions on Twitter and Facebook as well as many positive comments about the product.
After obtaining the market evidence needed to take Rymble to a next step, now in a re-design for industrialization process in collaboration with our partners, with the aim of improving the user experience and the value proposition to our customers.
Today in our anniversary we want to thank everyone who supported us and who have believed and trusted us. We are going to continue working hard to achieve our goals. Soon we will have more news of projects we have been developing in recent months. Thank you very much to everyone who make possible that Symplio grow every day.
Congratulations Symplio! Here you can see a photo of all the members of our team ;)
Rymble and Twitelecciones.com: measures the influence in Twitter of the candidates for the presidency of Spain
Which of the presidential candidates is the most popular on Twitter?, Who has more mentions?, Who share content more often?
Taking advantage of the next call for general elections in Spain, we wanted to make a curious experiment with Rymble. We wanted to show that Rymble has many different applications and as an example we decided to connect it to Twitter to measure the activity and influence of the candidates for the presidency of Spain in the social network, reflected in a physical object.
So we decided to make a skin for Rymble to monitor the elections activity in real time in Twitter, related to the two leading candidates for the presidency of Spain, Mariano Rajoy and Alfredo P. Rubalcaba, to determine the evolution of its popularity in the social network.
The idea of this new theme is to demonstrate the possibilities and the potential of Rymble to adapt to different subjects according to particular needs and interests. This time we chose the election issue by the proximity of the event and because it is closely linked to social networks, one of the most popular means for political propaganda by the immediacy and the disintermediation of the message, and also by the participation and interest, that awaken the subject of elections.
We have created a website to display graphically the level of activity in Twitter for both candidates in real time: Twitelecciones.com. On this page you will find two graphs in which you can see the number of tweets with mentions of the candidates in every moment, and a historical record of the activity that occurs daily in the social network associated with them.
Want to know more about this experiment?. Then visit the website of Rymble and learn how we got the idea, how it works and how long it took it on. We hope you like it! Here we leave you a video to show the new skin of Rymble.