We are proud to present the successful relaunch of the news portals of the AZ Medienverbunds. We created six separate regional news portals and one marketplace out of one single portal – in cooperation with mitLinks AG (design news portals), Zeughaus (design marketplace) and under the technical management and implementation of Lovely Systems:

• http://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/
• http://www.basellandschaftlichezeitung.ch/
• http://www.limmattalerzeitung.ch/
• http://www.solothurnerzeitung.ch/
• http://www.grenchnertagblatt.ch/
• http://www.langenthalertagblatt.ch/
• http://www.a-z.ch/

All these portals are managed within one single content management system, developed by Lovely Systems. This content management system allows maximum flexibility in layouts through adjustable templates and expandability of the portals through editable sections and pages.

Voller Stolz und Freude dürfen wir über den erfolgreichen Relaunch der Nachrichtenportale des AZ Medienverbunds berichten. In Zusammenarbeit mit der mitLinks AG (Design Nachrichtenportale), Zeughaus (Design Marktplatz) und unter der technischen Leitung und Umsetzung durch Lovely Systems entstanden aus einem einzigen Portal sechs regionale Nachrichtenportale und ein Marktplatz Portal:

• http://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/
• http://www.basellandschaftlichezeitung.ch/
• http://www.limmattalerzeitung.ch/
• http://www.solothurnerzeitung.ch/
• http://www.grenchnertagblatt.ch/
• http://www.langenthalertagblatt.ch/
• http://www.a-z.ch/

Alle Portale werden über ein einziges Content Management System bedient. Dieses von Lovely Systems selbst entwickelte Content Management System gibt der Nachrichtenredaktion maximale Flexibilität bei der Gestaltung des Seitenlayouts in Form von anpassbaren Templates und bei der Erweiterbarkeit in Form von neuen Ressorts und Seiten.

Wir arbeiten aktuell fieberhaft an der Umsetzung der neuen Zeitungsportale und Marktplätze der Gruppe der AZ Medien – einem der führenden Medienunternehmen der Schweiz. Die Grupppe verbindet die Aargauer Zeitung, die Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, die Limmattaler Zeitung, Solothurner Zeitung, den Sonntag und verschiedene Wochenzeitungen. Die neuen Portale sollen mit frischem Design und höherer Lokalisierung im Herbst online gehen. Wir freuen uns über diese positive Weiterentwicklung der Plattform. Lovely Systems ist mit der technischen Umsetzung des Content Management Systems und des Delivery Frontend beauftragt.

It is done. As of Friday, October 24th 2008, Lovely Systems is an Aktiengesellschaft.*
Our new executive board members Jodok and Manfred will continue to steer the company’s fortunes. We are pleased to welcome our new supervisory board – Christian Lutz (chairman), Mag. Stephan Thurm and Dr. Reinhard Gaertner.

Christian Lutz (Chairman)

For innovation, our supervisory board chairman and team coach has an excellent intuition. Christian Lutz thought Web 2.0 as others were still waiting for Y2K: in 1999 he founded uboot.com and sms.at, two very successful communities. For more than 15 years he has worked successfully in the areas of Internet, media and telecommunications as operational manager and entrepreneur. Christian Lutz has extensive experience with innovation, strategy, startup building, VC funding and M&A/Exit know-how. Today he is CEO of his holding company uebermut.com with seven startup investments, as well as in various board positions at these companies. Since 2007 Christian Lutz studies in the Owner/President Management Program (OPM) at Harvard Business School, Boston.

Mag. Stephan Thurm

What it means, to lead an IT company successfully, Stephan Thurm knows exactly. From 1999 to 2004 he was CEO of Teleport Consulting & Systems GmbH – and thus a pioneer in the development and establishment of the Internet in Vorarlberg. In 2004, the Master of Business Administration, business data processing specialist and cross-media expert (he studied in Munich, Sydney and Vienna) became the sales and marketing executive of the “VM” Vorarlberger Medienhaus GmbH. Today he is in the management of the OVB Digital Media Center (Ippen Group) in Rosenheim, focusing on new Internet projects.

Dr. Reinhard Gaertner

Reinhard Gaertner is Head of Media & Entertainment TWG at Taylor Wessing in Germany. He advises companies in the media and IT industries in all major legal matters in connection with the operational business activity. These include in particular the areas of copyright, intellectual property and distribution rights. The Doctor of Laws is a member of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Association of German Magazine Publishers (VDZ) and the Association of Verlagsjustitiare. Reinhard Gaertner is a lecturer for “Media” at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich in the Department of Communication Studies and Media Research. He regularly holds seminars and lectures at conferences and written articles in legal journals.

* Public Limited Company (PLC), Incorporation

The Semantic Web is the extension of the World Wide Web that enables people to share content beyond the boundaries of applications and websites. It has been described in rather different ways: as a utopic vision, as a web of data, or merely as a natural paradigm shift in our daily use of the Web. Most of all, the Semantic Web has inspired and engaged many people to create innovative semantic technologies and applications.

ISWC is the major conference where visionary and state-of-the-art research of all aspects of the Semantic Web are presented.

As you know, Lovely Systems is actively doing research and customer project in this area. Please meet Stefan Martin from our team there!

St. Martin – our chief mathematician – and Kienes – our man for HTML/CSS/JavaScript – will be at Facebook Developer Garage in Berlin.

We strongy believe that the combination of Google App Engine and Facebook is really powerful and look forward to implement the next Applications with our customers.

According to Gartner (found at http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10441) these are the top 10 technologies to watch the next 3 years.

So how deals Lovely Systems with this?

#1 we’re virtualizing our Linux environment since August 13th, 2006 (see our Blog)

#2 our first production cloud server was launched at December 11th 2006 (see our Blog)

#3 sorry, i don’t believe in that :)

#4 well, forget Enterprise Java Beans, SOAP,…
we’re on more lightweight stuff. REST (Talk at Plone Conference in Seattle, 2006), JSON-RPC (this year)

#7 uhm, what are we doing for our customers?

#8 funny. honestly, we’re running on VoIP,.. .since October 20th, 2005.

This Time no Python related news :)
Congratulations to Michael. You and your team at RjDj.me made it.
RjDj is a music application for the Iphone. It uses sensory input to generate and control the music you are listening to.
Michael Breidenbrücker – former Partner and Co-Founder of Lovely Systems is nowdays CEO of Reality Jockey Ltd.
Buy RjDj for just $2.99 from the Apple AppStore.

Lovely is hiring. We’re looking for 5 talented people. If you place someone in a job at Lovely Systems we’ll pay to up to € 2,000.- per person.

Here are the rules:
- € 2,000.- if the person starts working in October
- € 1,000.- if the person starts in November
- The person needs to stay at least 12 month at Lovely Systems. Money will be payed after 12 month.

Check our Jobs.

This morning our team had to get up early as Google was calling. Google Developer Day is taking place in Munich. “Adi” our bus driver brought us safely directly to Munich. After watching the Keynote “Client Cloud Connectivity” we’re splitting up and learn more about App Engine, The state of Ajax, Opensocial,…

And later on :) let’s go for a Mass at Oktoberfest!