Info, news and pictures about PinkMap!

… and best wishes from your PinkMap Team.

Stillness surrounds Zeche Zollverein, lying among fresh fallen snow. Everything is dark, everything sleeps. Everything? No! A small gleam of light is coming out of the windows of offices at the Zeche and dispersing light. The PinkMap Team is sitting in the office and working in a jolly atmosphere.

We wish all PinkMap users a merry Christmas and happy Holidays!

Your PinkMap Team.

This week we presented our new setting capabilities for PinkMap Web-version and today there is already the next Update: the new User search.

Finding other hot PinkMap guys is one of the central ideas of PinkMap.

During the last weeks we’ve received more and more requests from you to launch a more detailed search function with more specific filter options.

No sooner said than done!  A new Version of our search function is now online:

• The former name fields have been simplified into “Name”.
• The age bracket was raised and refined.
• Find guys with the same status updates.

With increasing user-rates we will update all  these functions step by step, so that you keep track of your PinkMap friends even when there are thousands of PinkMap users online!

At this place we need your help again: Please  write us your opinion about the new search function, the new version of PinkMap in general, your ideas and, of course, what you think could be improved at PinkMap!

There are some new features in the current PinkMap web version!

From now on you have the opportunity to choose if you want to be informed via email if somebody sends you a message, or not. At the “Notification”-page in your settings you are able to customize how you’d like to receive your notifications. You are now also able to turn off  the PinkMap Sound.

At this point we would like to thank all PinkMap friends and supporters who send us emails, because these  new features are the results of your feedback!! Please continue to support us with your ideas and suggestions.

Hey there PinkMap fans!  We are very happy to report today that our new App, version 1.4.1, is now available for download at the iTunes App Store.  We were given the green light from Apple in only 6 days. A new record!  This only leads us to believe that we might have a fan or two over there at Apple… we hope so! If so or not, time will tell, however, the new app is totally worth the download.

All bugs should now be fixed and causes that resulted in crashes have been addressed, especially those that were affecting messaging.

Update through the App Store on your iPhone or click on the following link: http://iphone.pinkmap.com/

• Want to make sure you always have the latest version of PinkMap? Click here…
• Want to edit notification and sound settings? Click here…

The latest from Junior Caldera, This Is What You Get. We here at PinkMap give it two thumbs up!  A trip to Amsterdam this weekend would help cheer up any mood. Remember to take your iPhone and PinkMap!

And the iPod goes to…

The first round of our Xmas Competition is over and we have our first winner to announce!

The iPod Nano has found a new home in Meerbusch, Germany, with Sebastian Huck, who has invited a grand total of 38 friends to PinkMap, followed by Deniz with 22 friends and Timmon with 17 friends.

For those who haven’t yet qualified, just remember that there are two rounds still coming, and the big prize, the iPhone 3G, is still to be awarded! So get sending those invites; the month is not over yet.

Here are the top 7:

Hey everyone, after a test of patience with Apple, everything has finally paid off.

The new PinkMap! 1.3.2 Version is now available for everybody!

We accounted your helpful suggestions and come up with some new ideas, in particular we  have improved on speed and stability of the App.

What else is New ?

Location Features:

• create a new location
• display the fans and admins of a location on the location’s profile
• users can become an admin of a location and edit the location’s details
• upload of location pictures
• recommend a location to your friends

Usability & Performance

• new loading screen prevents crashes on start and shows application start progress
• user profile data is cached on the iPhone and updated in the background
• shaking your iPhone reloads the own user’s profile
• easier access to the invite and create locations functions using the + button in the upper navigation bar
• messages are now saved and cached on the iPhone to allow faster access
  

We hope you enjoy testing the new features and of course philandering, dating and all that stuff.

In case you have helpful suggestions, feel free to contact us at contact@locamap.de.

You would like to become a Beta Tester? Just take a look !

HoHoHo! shouts a pink Santa Claus from our office in Essen. The Season has started a bit earlier this year! In cooperation with our friends from Switzerland, PinkMap has arranged a great competition to celebrate!!

You can win some nice gifts from Apple, but instead of relying on lot or fortune, you alone are accountable for your own success. Below you can see the prizes and what you can do to win:

Prizes:

Beginning Sunday the 6th, you can win a nice Apple gift on every Sunday till Christmas:

• Sunday the 6th: a beautiful iPod Nano
• Sunday the 13th: an even more beautiful iPod Touch
• Sunday the 20th: the grand prize, a new unlocked iPhone 3G

Requirements:

• You must be a member of PinkMap
• After winning: Please send an email with your personal details to PinkMap
• Optional: Uploading the winners pics to PinkMap. We will publish it here on the Blog so everybody can see your smile!

What do I have to do to win ?

• Invite as many friends as possible (even those living abroad) to PinkMap
• We will count the new members you invite

How can I keep updated on my chances of winning?

• To keep the competition as transparent as possible we will publish the latest rankings at 6 o’clock every evening.

We hope you will like our Xmas competition and in case you have questions or helpful suggestions just send us an email or ask Mr. PinkMap (you’ll find him under that name on PinkMap)

Become a beta tester and try the new PinkMap! version  before anyone else!

We are looking for some guys who would like to support us by testing a new PinkMap! version. To become a beta tester, all you have to do is download the BetaHelper App at the AppStore and send your iPhone ID to dev@locamap.de.

We will send an email with the latest PinkMap App, and all you have to do is to install it on your iPhone via iTunes.

Here is the complete manual as a PDF doc…

We want to welcome you into our official beta tester team! Join us!

Your PinkMap development team

The PinkMap! Team Is Growing

Starting immediately, we now have Bogdan and Nicolas who will handle the marketing of PinkMap! in Switzerland and Austria. Boggy (who would kill for good sushi, slim jeans and Lady GaGa) and Nico (who likes the 3-day beard, red wine and Minimal) are true PinkMap! fans and are thrilled with this new development.  Today Nicolas and Bogdan were delighted to share the following statement, “We are excited about the technical possibilities that PinkMap! offers and convinced that it will quickly establish itself as the trendy Gay Dating platform in Switzerland and Austria“.  They continued by saying, “PinkMap! should help the gay community to get to know others, even on the go, in an uncomplicated and simple way“.

In order to establish PinkMap! as quickly as possible, Boggy and Nico have planned to not only use classical but also unconventional marketing measures. So prepare yourselves to be pleasantly surprised for a new generation of Gay Dating with PinkMap! in Switzerland and Austria!