San Francisco/Hamburg, May 19, 2010 – At the Google I/O 2010 conference this week the new intelligent Todo-Management system TheDeadline is launched to the public. Using Artificial Intelligence techniques from Computer Games, TheDeadline tries to mimic the behavior of a human personal assistant to free the user from tedious project-management work and to make global team collaboration easy. "Todays software is mostly dumb. It does not actively help the user to get things done. We try to change that by employing machine intelligence to minimize annoying and repetitive knowledge worker tasks.", says Stefan Richter (@smartrevolution), founder of TheDeadline, hacker and successful german internet entrepreneur since 1999.

TheDeadline has found prominent supporters, Lars Hinrichs (@LarsHinrichs) entrepreneur and founder of the Business Network XING has invested in the start-up. “I know Stefan and his team from the early days of Xing. He is an internet pioneer and he really knows how to build cool things. Tools for easy collaboration are essential for the knowledge workers of the Information Age. This is why I invested in TheDeadline.”

TheDeadline runs on Google App Engine, Google's Cloud Computing Infrastructure. It will be available through the Google Marketplace and provides a smart integration with Google Contacts and Google Calendar.

 “This will be only the very first tool in a row of more great stuff to come and the Google I/O conference is a great place to begin this journey”, Stefan Richter adds.

TheDeadline provides a novel way to share Todos fast and easy with co-workers to collaborate in small and large projects. An integrated artificial intelligence system gives status updates, asks for decisions and provides a smart system to re-submit overdue Todos without annoying the user. The tool does not just store Todos, but actually helps users to get their Todos done: Adding and tagging a Todo is as easy as writing a Twitter post.

TheDeadline is a spin-off of the innovative german software company freiheit.com technologies.
The Deadline - Your Intelligent Assistant - is free to use – please go to http://the-deadline.com/ to check it out.

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13th July 2010 -- TheDeadline, a smart to-do management web application, is now available on the Google Apps Marketplace™, Google's online storefront for Google Apps™ products and services. TheDeadline changes the way large sets of tasks are managed. The user can add new to-dos quickly and the app makes it very easy to collaborate with any number of other users. The system monitors the progress of all to-dos and helps the user to focus on the most important tasks by alerting him or her to important status changes; it automatically resubmits overdue to-dos and it asks for decisions and actions without annoying the user. 

“We have built TheDeadline for knowledge workers like ourselves. We could not find a to-do manager that actively helps users get things done. We wanted a system that is fun to use and doesn’t fill up my inbox with annoying e-mails.” says Stefan Richter, founder of TheDeadline and long-time successful German internet entrepreneur.

TheDeadline integrates Google Contacts™ so that you can use all your existing Gmail™ contacts to assign and coordinate to-dos to your project team. A novel approach is the Google Calendar integration: TheDeadline provides a special Day Planner to assign to-dos to your Calendar™ events via drag and drop. People can use this feature to allocate the time and place to work on sets of to-dos and to make these to-dos visible in their daily schedule. If you want to try out TheDeadline, please sign-up at http://goo.gl/0pnk for a free.

"We are very happy to have TheDeadline in the Google Apps Marketplace," adds Scott McMullan, Google Apps Partner Lead for Google Enterprise. "Through the Google Apps Marketplace, software vendors like TheDeadline are helping us build a rich ecosystem of integrated apps that work seamlessly with Google Apps, allowing IT administrators to leverage the benefits of cloud computing and extend Google Apps to meet more of their business needs. We are excited to make task management easier for the millions of Google Apps users who have embraced the cloud."

Lars Hinrich’s HackFwd, Europe’s hottest startup investment company is now funding TheDeadline.

The Google Apps Marketplace makes it easy for more than 2 million Google Apps businesses to discover, purchase and deploy integrated business applications and related professional services. By integrating with user account and application data stored in Google Apps, these cloud applications provide a simpler user experience, increase business efficiency, and reduce administrative overhead. To learn more, visit google.com/appsmarketplace.

Google Apps brings simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools to organizations. With Google Apps, users can use applications such as Gmail webmail service, Google Talk™ instant messaging service, Google Calendar calendaring service, Google Docs™ productivity suite, Google Sites™ web site creation application application, and Google Video™ for businesses to collaborate more effectively on their own domain. Best of all, it's all hosted by Google, so there's no hardware or software to download, install or maintain.

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