From Silicon Valley to Moove-IT 1

Posted by Gabriela Isnardi on February 17, 2011

We are doing a good job, that’s right, but Michael Staton and Howard Kao from Inigral did not exactly decide to move to Uruguay and work from here now on, they just paid us a one week visit, and worked with us like any other member of the Moove-iT team. The Schools project is exciting itself, but having Howard and Michael here made us feel it even closer, and the boundaries between Inigral and Moove-iT were sort of a blur, for good.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I am really positive we have made them feel at home.

We worked for a week straight, but we also had time to have fun.
No doubts about it, having visitors from around the globe is always refreshing and truly motivating…

Let me tell you why.

We conduct daily meeting with clients from different countries. Most of the times we use skype, and we are about 4 or 5 people in the same room, talking in English, though our primary language is Spanish. On the other end, there is a person whose native language is generally English, but who is normally thousands of miles away, many Fahrenheits apart and only a few hours ahead or behind us. We rarely use a camera, so we do not even know what the room he or she is in looks like.

I believe that the third dimension is definitely more important than we might think. And being in the same room with someone whose voice is extremely familiar to us, and has been part of our work lives for over an year, but whose looks, posture or gestures we used to have little or no idea about is just fantastic. We shared this sort of energy and connection you could only generate when meeting in person.

The truth is we all love to put a name to a face.

And this time we had two new faces to look at, to talk to and to laugh with. In the flesh we met Michael and Howard.

THANK YOU!

Fondation Forge and Moove-it play it real

Posted by Gabriela Isnardi on October 18, 2010

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We are proud to announce we have 2 new members in our team. Damian and Nicolas are part of Fondation Forge programs for teenagers. These two bright young programmers are joining our staff after working as interns in our premises.

Our new geek natives...

Please welcome them!

Moove-it and Forge have been working together for 2 years. Among other things Forge provides an opportunity for teenagers to get their first job, and Moove-it supports its values and contributes to make them possible.

The FORGE FOUNDATION is a Swiss established non-profit foundation dedicated to developing and implementing youth work and life skills training programs in nations throughout Latin America.  The foundation began operations in 2006 and now has three training program centers: two in Argentina (Buenos Aires and Pilar) and one in Montevideo, Uruguay

web page of FF: www.fondationforge.org

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D.E.D Uruguay: new game for XO Computers! – Trojan Chicken

Posted by mn.burghi on July 23, 2010

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Trojan Chicken, a young company aimed at the creation and development of high quality, content-rich videogames. As business partners we are planning several developments together.

We want to share their new development for XO Computers; the game called D.E.D. Uruguay.

Best of lucks guys !

The game. Is an adventure in which the player takes the role of a detective, and has to travel around the country capturing thieves who are stealing part of the national heritage. Players will have to solve puzzles using their knowledge of mathematics and language in order to obtain clues. Afterwards, they will have to associate the obtained clues using their knowledge of history and geography, in order to find the place where the thief is hidden. After finding the hideout, the player will chase after the thief until he is finally caught and imprisoned. This game was inspired by a successful game of the 80s named Carmen San Diego.

Their purpose is to revitalize this kind of videogames in our community, providing schoolchildren with entertaining activities in which simultaneously help them in their learning process of local culture, history and other knowledge that will contribute to their personal development.

See this video … a tour by the game !

new release of SharePlus iPad/iPhone client for SharePoint – Southlabs

Posted by Martin Cabrera on July 23, 2010

One of our business partners, SouthLabs, has just published the following video on their flagship product, SharePlus. It’s iPad/iPhone client app for Microsoft’s SharePoint. They tell me they are about to release version 2.0 anyday now.

Gabriel (Gabo) and Daniel are the owners of this new company.
They are a young startup not very different from ourselves,

Gabo is a great friend of mine and an excellent professional. Best of lucks guys !