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Big thanks to everyone who came over to help us break in the new space. We had a wonderful evening and we hope you did, too! We are already looking forward to the next time we can invite you. In the meantime why don't you check out some of these photos from the evening! read more

It's been a very busy week for sociomantic: we just moved to our new office at Münzstraße 19! We love it and we hope you do, too. If you're every waltzing around Berlin Mitte and feel like stopping in to chat about online advertising, music, coding, or just to share a coffee or few Haribo Goldbären, our door is always open! Click below to see the pictures of our move! read more

In less than a month we’ll be moving into a new work space located near the Hackescher Markt area of Berlin’s Mitte district. We stopped by the other day to check out the progress. Lookin good! Although we’ll certainly miss sharing space with the friendticker crew at our current Chausseestraße office, I’m really excited for the move. For one, we’ll actually have space for everyone on our quickly growing team… right now things are getting a little cramped Second, the location of the new office is awesome! It’s only steps away from the Alexanderplatz S-bahn station, and our 4th floor height means we get great light and a slightly more [...] read more

Here at the labs we pride ourselves on hosting a diversity of talents that go far beyond cutting-edge computing. Many of the more obscure entries in our talent catalogue come to us via Dylan, our front end developer who’s been hosting the awesome Native Javascript Ninjutsu series on our Code Talk channel. There’s no doubt that he’s a native javascript ninja, but Dylan is a man of many other talents, including glassblowing, VJing, and …TURFing? (It’s okay, I didn’t know what it was, either.) Apparently TURF stands for “Taking Up Room (on the dance) Floor.” If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this video of Dylan TURFing has [...] read more

Last Friday, several of our team members woke early and packed into a rental van to take the 250km drive north to the Baltic Sea, where we had registered for a day of kiteboarding lessons. For those unfamiliar with the sport, kiteboarding (sometimes simply called “kiting”) is a bit different from it’s parent sport, windsurfing. Instead of surfing along the water with a sail attached to a surfboard, kiteboarding entails being pulled along the water on a wakeboard by a giant kite that flies high in the air. Here’s a little taste of what we could have been doing with a few more days on the water. Okay, maybe we [...] read more