Jul
02
2010
As a group of IT specialists and biking enthusiasts we are doubly thrilled by the launch of Budapest's first automated bicycle traffic counter, a sort of meshup of our two favorite kind of cycles.
The counter will help city planners better understand bicycle traffic habits and patterns, but even more importantly, it is the first hard-science tool that we city cyclists have to demonstrate our growing numbers to the transport authorities.
Mar
23
2010
We are very proud to announce a great new update to congregar.com, our free event organizer webapp.
Congregar is a sort of house pet to us that we launched in November 2008 and in the past year, it has learned some nice new tricks we hope you'll enjoy. The new beta adds more flexible event options, and brings improvements in poll status tracking for event organizers and participants. Those of keen eye will notice some subtle tweaks to the UI too.
Try it out! - and of course, we're itching to hear what you think :)
eu.edge team
New Features:
Mar
10
2010
We're proud to report that EU Edge received the 2009 Bike Friendly Workplace Award, distributed by the Hungarian Ministry of Environment and Water.
Praise for winning the award should go to our avid bikers for being relentless in keeping our office's carbon emissions to a minimum (the fact that we cover biking-related expenses from the employee transportation funds might have helped).
Jun
04
2009
We have just got hold of a recent (March) issue of Business Hungary, an English language monthly of the local arm of the American Chamber of Commerce, in which you can read a nice piece about the outlooks of IT startups in Hungary written based on interviews with two local examples: Hungarian-American startup Spearsong Inc. and EuEdge.
The interview was made during a recent event of the Budapest New Technology Meetup group, where our CTO Akos Maroy and our excellent friend Zsolt Máslányi from Spearsong Inc. spoke about experiences in
doing outsource work for global companies, on how the local talent stands on IT skills and business savviness.
Nov
05
2008
"What would be the best date for that weekend cookout with my friends? When is everyone available for a class reunion? Which night would work best for that company outing?"
The usual pattern when organizing such events is a mass email to your friends, followed by a thread of 80 emails, where everyone throws in their preferences, witty remarks, corrections, retractions, etc. Then, after a bit of confused silence, you try to draw a conclusion from all this, and in frustration usually end up picking the date you preferred anyway, followed by further negotiations and griping :)
Jul
09
2008
Last week I took part in in the establishment of the Hungarian Open Standards Alliance, as a founding member, and became vice president of the organization. The Alliance will focus on promoting open standards in the Hungarian IT industry, both in the commercial and government procurement areas. Founding members include key figures of the Hungarian branches of major IT companies, such as IBM, Novell and even Google.