For centuries, the French have been known for ‘doing things differently’, for our creative flair and our boundless pioneering spirit (or at least I like to think so).

We certainly brought you Monet, the Concorde, Debussy and the croissant (sheer genius). While I’m at it, we can also take credit for the metric system (sorry to our US members!) and the not-so-humble cabaret. And then of course, there’s the bicycle and let’s not forget creme brulée.

But you can thank us for these things later. In the meantime, it seems only fitting that we also had a hand in creating Myows, the global platform to help creative folk protect the integrity and value of their Original Work through registering and managing their copyrights. But you knew that.

Even more fitting: as of today, Myows is available in French!

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This is just a quick note to let you know that the votes are in. Our expert panel of judges (including Max, Dave, Jonathan Bailey (from Plagiarism Today), Adii (from Woothemes) and myself) has finally come to a decision!

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To celebrate our 4 Step Challenge, our community has submitted 5 awesome Myows apps/plugins built on top of the Myows API. These have already started changing the way we protect our copyright so don’t miss out. And, with only 4 days left to cast votes, we decided to throw in a little extra:

Vote for your favorite app and we’ll double your Myows storage space
(from 500MB to 1GB).

Simple, just the way we like it.

Hey all, it’s been 6 weeks since we launched the humble Myows API and we are truly excited by the results of the 4 Step Challenge (the word “stoked” springs to mind).

Now comes the hard part: deciding on the winners.

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A Revolution in Copyright Protection

The deadline for submissions has arrived and we are proud to present the five entries that will compete in our 4 Step Api Challenge. We’re very impressed by the look of things but let’s give these external apps and plugins a spin and start posting our feedback.

Drupal Module

A feature-rich integration of your Drupal content with Myows

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As you might know, we are running a Challenge to celebrate the launch of our API. We even published a tutorial on nettuts to help you get started.

The deadline for our challenge had been set at the end of the week.

There’s some pretty impressive apps in the making that will revolutionize the way most of us manage our copyrights ( and so far we have two amazing entries – ShirtSafe and Owit WP plugin – please give them a try ), but after contacting privately the participating developers, we have decided to allow you more time to submit your entry too. So everyone wins in the Myowsphere!

On Sunday, we will close the entries for “Round 1″ of the contest and you will get to vote for your favorite app.

If more than 3 apps have entered, and are in a working state, the contest will go ahead as originally planned.

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Take fuss-free copyright management to the next level.

Get your hands dirty with Myows’ publicly available API, fresh from the desks of our globally-scattered development team. This brings us one step closer to our platform-vision: helping the planet’s switched-on creative community help themselves. We’re looking for Myows members to help us add further functionality to the existing app at Myows.com. The brief is straightforward:

1- Use the new Myows API to develop a plug-in, add-on or stand alone application that assists other Myows members in registering, protecting and/or managing their rights

2- Develop this solution in a way that allow users to access key functionality in 4 steps or less

3- Implement your code and design with integrity, simplicity and elegance

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A little over two weeks since opening Myows for Beta testing, we have done some nifty changes to the homepage (If you’re logged in, you’ll need to log out to view it).

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Here we are (somewhere between Singapore, Paris and Cape Town) and this is it – the very first myows blog post!

We are live, we’re in Beta and we’re ready to protect and serve with the most comprehensive set of free copyright management tools available.

Myows is more than an app, it’s a movement: forward-thinking global creatives who respect the originality and integrity of their work and expect others to do the same. It is our stated mission to reduce the incidence of online copyright theft by 20% by 2020.

We’re going to do it but we need your backing… starting today.

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