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Open Source Software (OSS) is crucial for Doodle: both in development and operation, market leading Doodle is relying almost completely on OSS. Therefore it is very important for us that OSS is successful, attracts many developers and is deployed in many projects. We’re very glad that we were honored by the first place of the [...]

We need your support: Doodle qualified to the video finals for the Launch Pad at the Enterprise 2.0. YOU can bring us into the round of the last four who present in June at the conference Boston where we’ll announce a complete relaunch of Doodle. Please give us your vote (and confirm according to the [...]

Only a couple of hours to go this year. So it’s time to look back at some of Doodle’s highlights 2009: Passed the 3 million users mark in April and continued to experience very healthy growth rates ever since then Named one of Switzerland’s best web sites, one of Switzerland’s most innovative companies, and a [...]

Red Herring writes: Selected from a pool of 1,200 worldwide applicants, these global innovators are the ones to watch as they disrupt their respective industries. Together with Doodle, a total of 12 Swiss startups are nominated for the award. The winners will be announced in mid-January. All the nominees on the Red Herring web site

The Crunchies recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. And you get to choose who wins! So please help us win. It’s easy, just use the badge below or click this link to access the pre-filled nomination form for Doodle as Best International Start-up. You can vote daily [...]

TechCrunch opened voting for the best European startups today. Doodle is nominated as “Best Bootstrapped Startup”. Whatever that means exactly: All Doodle users – vote for us now! And while you’re at it, please vote for our friends at Wuala, too. (They’re in a different category.)

We are happy to announce the winners of the Doodle API Contest today! Doodlendar, an application that integrates Doodle’s scheduling system with Google Calendar, developed by two students at the ETH Zurich, won first prize. Second and third prizes went to Manymoon (USA) and DoodleZack (Austria). Winners were chosen by a jury of web pros [...]

The Doodle API Contest ended last week. We’re excited that 8 applications from 6 countries were submitted, covering anything from mobile  and application integrations to mashups we’d never have thought of. We will not yet reveal the submissions. First, our jury will determine the contest winners. We expect to announce the winners in early May. Here [...]

The 13th annual Webby Awards received over 9,000 entries from over 60 countries. Winners are chosen by the International Academy of Digitals Arts and Sciences, a global organization whose members include David Bowie, Harvey Weinstein, Arianna Huffington, Matt Groening, Vinton Cerf, and Biz Stone. Doodle is a honoree in the Services & Applications category and [...]

Paul’s report from the Venture Leaders 2009 jury: Last year, I had the privilege of being one of Switzerland’s twenty Venture Leaders. Here’s what I had to say at the end of the program: “I was worried that we would waste time on chitchatting and sipping cocktails. As it turned out, «venture leaders» is an [...]