First Twitter Engineer Does it Again, Secures 2 Million, Amen.

Here's a longer article about the guy: http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/05/09/exclusive-the-story-of-t...

Yes there is a European version of Techcrunch, even a French one if I'm not mistaken. But they are normally not as interesting in my opinion. However, and that's why I cared to share, they are starting to write more about the Berlin scene. I find it rather fascinating to watch how the startup scene is starting to take off here with SoundCloud, Wooga and ResearchGate being the first stars (If you want to learn something about professional copycats google Samwer Brothers, they've done some 25 exits from Berlin, but I don't think they deserve to be mentioned more than that).

So for me the two million in funding (among them Ashton Kutcher) are sensational news but let me shed some more light on the actual product. As their landing page says already (http://amenhq.com/) it's revolving around opinions and ratings but in a highly semantic and mobile way.

I don't think it has anything to do with color, I think of this team rather highly.

However there's another Berlin startup that does what color does but imo is something I would actually USE: http://eyeem.com. It's an interesting mix in between color and instagram.

@rhizome I hope your question in particular could be answered, although he is in fact also an important part of the techrunch story I linked to in the first place.

EDIT: Ah I've just seen that @rhizome might be referring to the actual article on techcrunch, that left a lot of details out? Were you referred to that article (http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/21/ashton-kutcher-and-madonnas...) instead of this one: http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/07/22/ashton-kutcher-and-madon... ?

No description of what Amen actually do, but they themselves think they're pretty great.

And ... that's it?