Portfolio.
Gerald Bäck & Max Kossatz. archify
Website:
www.archify.com
archify archives everything you see on the web or in your social streams (Facebook, Twitter etc) – then lets you search it quickly. The tool is seamlessly integrated into most browsers and runs automatically, so there’s no need to bookmark or manually save information. Nowadays people don’t have time to trawl through their browser history and twitter feeds to find the article they read ten days ago. They want to search across multiple devices and through all their personal data streams.
Gerald Bäck & Max Kossatz
Max spent the mid-90s in New York building The Thing, a Community and Internet provider for Artists. Back in Austria he has been a member of various supervisory boards and held management and executive
positions in the Internet, Mobile Services and Retail-Business. Max studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna under Peter Weibel, and has participated in various national and international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale. Before archify Max was CEO & co-owner of DKS, which provides market and opinion data by analyzing online discussion boards, blogs, web pages and social communities. In December 2010 he founded archify together with Gerald Bäck and Walter Palmetshofer.
Gerald was born in 1972 and holds an M.Sc. in telecommunications engineering. He founded public.webwatch in 2000, an Internet Monitoring Service for business customers, which is still the market leader in Austria. In 2003 Gerald started mediadoc, another monitoring company with a focus on broadcast media and Austrian newspapers. 2009 Gerald successfully sold both companies to a competitor.
