In lieu of my previous post commending Vodaphone on their recent mobile ebook strategy, I think it is important to draw light on some interesting statistics that were recently brought to my attention. We know that Citigroup has estimated the total Kinde sales for 2008 to be somewhere around the 380,000 mark. Well, as of
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We have been very busy here at Spreed getting everything ready for the launch of our next product as well as incorporating all of the fantastic feedback that we have received from our users. We sent out a survey 3 weeks ago now and the response has been fantastic; so thank you! We released a
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It has been about a month since the launch of Spreed:News and we have had some fantastic feedback from our community. Today we released a new version of Spreed:News to the public. The new version has a number of feature updates including: The ability to post articles to twitter The ability to rate an article 10
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Motoko Rich of the New York Times recently released the first of what will be a series of articles addressing online reading and the movement away from traditional forms of reading (i.e. books, newspapers, journals). I won’t go into a huge rant here as the article is quite lengthy and very detailed. But to summarize
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Before the iTunes App Store, first generation iPhone users pointed their browsers to the Apple Web App store which features thousands of web applications specifically designed for the iPhone and iTouch. Users have the ability to browse through the same categories as they can in the now popular iTunes store, but they don’t have to
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Spreed was recently featured in XYYZ Magazine. They really hit the nail on the head when it comes to the limitation of mobile devices. Although the iPhone has a huge screen, it still has some major real estate issues. When reading articles users can easily get overwhelmed by too much text and a slew of
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Below is a link to a fantastic article about Spreed written by Michael Tipper a professional speed reading coach based out of the UK. Michael sums up spreed perfectly and has put together an instructional video on how to read using clusters. The educational component of Spreed is very important as it is a departure
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I would just like to say thank you for all the help and support that we have received from the North American tech community. The Spreed:News launch yesterday was spectacular and we are even more excited for the coming days. Please contact us or post a comment here if you have any feedback or ideas
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I am very proud to announce to launch of Spreed:News today. Spreed:News is a mobile application that gives users a better reading experience on their mobile devices. The first version of our software will be available only through the iPhone. However, we will be working hard over the next month to offer both Windows Mobile
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It has been a while since the last time we posted on our blog, but don’t let that fool you. The wheels are turning here at the Spreed Headquarters as we get very close to the launch of our first commercial product, Spreed News. I won’t go into too much detail about the product right
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