I could have told you about the BioTechnica in Hannover last week in a traditional blogpost (which indeed I did as you can see below), but I prefer to sum it up in 10 words:

1. Huge

The show area is composed of 26 different halls. Hopefully the Biotechnica just occupied 2 of them. You’d better follow the signs in order not to get lost.

2. B32

The exact position of our booth, to be remembered in such a huge complex.

3. Green

The booth color, which actually helped make a difference.

4. Skilled

The people that came visit us, they were either professionals or students who are already used to biomedical online search.

5. Motivating

The feedback we received from them and the ideas they could suggest us.

6. Free

The answer we had to give everytime we were asked “How much does novoseek cost? “.

7. 400

The number of promotionnal items we have been giving away to visitors.

8. 5 hours

The maximum time one can stand without sitting, and it hurts afterward.

9. BioMatters

The name of the company we had next to our booth and we enjoyed speaking with.

10. Seven

The number of beers I managed to drink during those 4 days (“C’mon! I was in Germany“)

If you follow us on twitter or facebook, you may have noticed that we were out at the Biotechnica last week. What’s the Biotechnica? Simply the biggest European show in the field of biotechnologies that takes place yearly in Hannover (Germany).

Obviously, you understand how important it is for us to be there, as we did for major shows in the United States during the year 2009. The importance of the show, the people and companies attending it, its growing influence have made that Bioalma,Spanish -and therefore European- company took the opportunity to go meet professionals, prospects and users from the old continent.

What have we been doing there? Principally meet people and explain them what is novoseek and explain them why it is a great tool. Obviously, some of them would already know novoseek and ask very specific questions.

Nevertheless, one of the main question we were asked, the detail that triggered people’s curiosity is knowing what has to be paid for in novoseek. The answer left them even more surprised as novoseek is a free biomedical search engine. “Free, you have just said? So how do you guys make money?” Well, we make money out of advertisement displayed here and there across the pages on one hand. And thanks to companies announcing via our media platform.

Naturally, we had some time for dinners & bears to follow up with colleagues, users and providers. Its great to be able from time to time to see the faces of people with whom you exchange e-mails, phone calls, twitts…

Madrid in August bears high temperatures and dry air, so citizens of the city scatter to cooler climates such as southern or northern Spain leaving Madrid high and dry (literally). As August comes to a close employees here at novoseek are trickeling in from vacations showing off their tans and telling stories of their time off.

As everyone gets settled back into work they find the innevitably FULL INBOX and VOICEMAIL but eventually you get back in the swing of things and find your “work groove.” So for everyone struggling to get back into their own “work groove” after a pleasant summer vacation, we know how you feel!

Where did you go this summer on vacation? Please, leave a comment giving us ideas where we should go (or not go) on our next vacation!

Hello World

Hello world is the basic sentence for a programmer who is learning a new language or testing a new piece of code. I wanted to use this tag because it is the same thing here. It is our first post, we are starting our test of a new language, a so called corporate blog.

You are probably thinking: “Oh!!! a corporate blog, ah!!! One of those places where they will write about their product all the time, yes!!! how interesting??”

Don’t get me wrong, it is not like we are not going to talk about our product or our company, it’s a part of what we are and if we evaluate the time we dedicate to our job, I must say it’s a substantial one. However our goal with this blog is to give our perspective of the information technology in the biomedicine market: web 2.0, search engines, social networks, health 2.0, user experience, our experience with users, text mining, technology, biomedical resources in the Internet and why not, business strategies.

We just hope to be able to transmit our enthusiasm, dedication and excitement to our goal of helping the life science community to deal with data and information.

By the way, I have to thanks Darryl Leon for coming up with, what ended to be the name of this blog: Knowledge beyond words