It was on 20 April when I wrote a review about Producteev on my startup Internet review blog. It has been quite a while now till the founder – Ilan – emailed me with some exciting news about Producteev.
What is Producteev?? To cut the long story short, Producteev has built a Group Task Management application that is evolving into a full-featured Productivity platform connected to IM, Email, Twitter, Mobile, Desktop, Popular Productivity Applications.
Producteev has several things to announce for their launch planned on September 2nd. So let me just copy and paste some of his materials over here together with my thoughts…
Let’s start with some news-breaking from the company
- Have just secured new Angel funding with Aydin Senkut, Oleg Tscheltzoff, Oliver Jung and other previous investors.
- Have been selected among the 10 startups that will be part of the 2009/2010 class of the First Growth Venture Network, a 1 year program for High Potential Entrepreneurs mentored by successful Entrepreneurs, VCs and Business Angels
- Have just hired a new Head of Sales, Martin Huegli, Canadian Citizen, former exec at Xing.com
Let’s check out the milestones of the company
- 10,000 Beta Testers
Producteev just reached the 10,000 beta testers milestones, with a 10% active rate and more than 115,000 tasks processed. All types of users came to Producteev but mainly Start-Ups, Students and Individuals - Universities
Since Producteev became quickly popular towards the Students’ crowd, Producteev initiated talks with Universities, who are interested in white labelling Producteev for their students. Producteev will start announcing their first exciting partnerships pretty soon. - Out of Beta
Producteev is launching their Version One, i.e. the commercial version of a product which they have been baking in beta for 1 year now. Producteev is introducing their pricing as well as some premium features ranging from free (individuals and students) to $99 a month (for an unlimited plan), though most of the users will be interested in the $19 / month / company plan (up to 10 users). (Find out how to get this $99/month for free for 12 months below!)
So what is Producteev?
Producteev is an intuitive and fully drag & drop-able solution to collaborate with your colleagues over shared projects and tasks. By the way, you may want to check out my website review of Producteev when they were still in beta. Or just take a tour here to find out Producteev!
I will run through some of the key features that Producteev has to offer to the users:
- “Crowdsource Your Tasks”
Producteev not only helps the users manage, share and organize their tasks in group, Producteev can also help them to complete those tasks!
How did that happen? Basically, the users just need to make some of their tasks public, and then publish them to social media (i.e. Twitter, Facebook, and others such as LinkedIn) so as to ask for help from your network to complete them! The helpful person will authenticate himself/herself through their account with Facebook/Twitter/Producteev, and comment on your task directly! Immediately, the task is connected!
- Mobile Collaboration
Since the beginning, Producteev is focusing on replicating the web experience on our mobile phones. And Producteev is announcing a few mobile clients today: Producteev is launching the V2 of their iPhone app, available on the app store, their Android application available on the Android Market, and a new Blackberry client set to be released in the next few days. They are also remain available on Windows Mobile and Nokia. Well, probably no other collaboration tool is currently available on that many mobile platforms…
- Productivity apps aggregation
In Producteev’s “Activity Feed”, they have also allowed other various feeds such as Google Docs, Google Reader, Twitter, Docstoc, GitHub, SlideShare to be included in it. It’s almost similar like “Frienfeed for your Productivity apps”!
There are a couple more features within! I think it’s best to leave them to your exploration when you sign up.
Also, below are some of the soon-to-launch features!
- They are also integrating Meebo Community IM so you’ll be able to chat with your colleagues from Producteev / Producteev will be in JoliCloud pretty soon
- They are launching their OpenSocial application on Xing in the middle of October / Export deadlines and reminders to iCal, Google Calendar and Outlook.
Gold accounts of Producteev to be given away!
Before I begin, kindly take a look at Producteev Price Table. You’ll see that every gold account is worthed $99 per month with a total of up to 100 users!
And the founder of Producteev – Ilan – is offering 5 gold accounts to my readers for 1 year! That’s a total of $1188 in value to be given away to every chosen winner!
While my blog is not as famous as Chris Brogan, Copyblogger and Problogger, I am really praying to God that I will be able to find enough responses in my blog to get these free gold accounts.. Will you be able to help me with this? 
How to win a Gold Account for free?
If you are interested to get a gold account for yourself, simply leave the most convincing comment in this blog post to let me know. I will handpick 5 best commentators who are able to convince me that they should be the ones getting a Producteev gold account! (Hint: Do note that this gold account allows up to 100 users! So why do you want this account for free?)
Winners will be notified via email. And I will write a congratulation post to them in this blog. Also, if you have a website, I will write a little about you based on my first web impression of you!
Alright! I will leave this blog post on at the top till I get enough responses for me to handpick! Good luck to all of you, and hope you will be able to support me with comments in one way or another too! 
Latest update (6 September 2009): By the way, I found a similar post from ReadWriteWeb who is also offering some accounts. If you need more reviews about it, read theirs too!
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