petsicon blogOur blog about petsicon, the pet health lexicon

Ok,ok I know, we’ve been been lazy with blogging, but there was just
sooo much other stuff that we had to do AND we are now in super-focus-mode,
wanting to get our baby out into the world as fast as possible.
So this is what we’ve been doing:

First of all, I’ll not do the bold words anymore. This was meant
as optimization for speedreaders, but I don’t think that the majority
of the readers of this blog are actually speed readers, so let’s
try “normal”.

We are in the process of modifying our system so that we can have
more user engagement and interaction, meaning that people will be able
to share their knowledge with other users in a new and exciting way.
We’re particularly excited about this new idea and our vets are now
creating hundreds of new great information bits, or qnobits (short
for knowledge bits) for our users.
Those cover all areas of pet knowledge ranging from questions like
‘What things do I have to buy for my puppy?’ or ‘What can I feed my dog?’
to more medical questions like ‘How do I measure my dog’s temperature’
or ‘What do I have to do if my dog has flatulence?’.
Luckily our system is designed to be easily extendable and the new
module is fitting in greatly!

Furthermore our design crew, namely Mick and Vera, are redesigning
our site so expect more elegance and beauty coming soon!
We’re also getting more customized dog figures, i.e. breed specific
figures, we think you don’t want to be clicking on some generic dog
but rather on a graphic of your dog, so look out for your own clickable
dog breed figure soon, but we might need some time since there are over
800 dog breeds and there’s only so many figures we can make.

On another note we are very excited to announce that we have two new
additions to our Japanese team, a Japanese professor and veterinarian,
Ken Hayashida, and a practicing Japanese veterinarian, Toshiro Kaneko.
Their work has already greatly improved our Japanese content and
I hope that the Japanese team will keep the momentum going.
GO JAPANESE PETSIES!!!

We hope to start closed alpha-testing within the next month and are
excited to show our “knowledge machine” to everyone!
(That is everyone in the closed-alpha test

Oh, I almost forgot, you can now sign-up for news updates on
our site so if you don’t want to miss any of the exciting stuff that’s
about to happen, sign up here !!!