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on April 16
Le Newsgrapos
Posted project update #23Time to reveal the next steps :)
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Dear Friends,
It has been a long time since our last update. The reason for this wasn't that we stopped working on Newsgrape, but rather that we spent the past five months developing what will be our largest leap forward yet.
To be more precise, we've been working on the next phase of the project: A semantic extraction based news reader/crawler, with the aim to deliver a diverse media perspective and change the blogging infrastructure, using an innovative plug-in that allows bloggers to synchronize their content directly with Newsgrape. All of this contributes towards creating a perfect news portal and making reading and discussing news more fun.
During the past months, we've also closed our first actual seed investment round, enabling us to shift gear, increase our team and server architecture and dig into creating awesome software with new and increased efforts.
Last but not least, Leo is about to move to San Francisco for thee months, starting Thursday, to smoothen the launch and our US market entry. Needless to say, if you know any cool people in the Bay Area, Leo would be very grateful for introductions!
If you are interested in a more thorough update, please have a look at this Development Update in English or German!
All the best,
Felix, Leo, Bernhard, Luis and many more
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on October 21, 2011
Le Newsgrapos
Posted project update #22Newsgrape - The smallest Blog on the Web
Post CommentDear Supporters,
Today we'd like to present to you a new feature called the "Embeddable Reader", the smallest publishing tool on the web and the easiest way to add content to your websites.
All of this to make publishing with Newsgrape even more attractive. Check out this post for more details, or read the German version.
Comment, to let us know what you think ;-)
We wish you a lot of fun using Newsgrape,
Your Newsgrape Crew
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on October 11, 2011
Le Newsgrapos
Posted project update #21Newsgrape Development Update 11.10.11 | New Search and New Design
Post CommentDear Newsgrape Community,
Let's have a look at the recent upgrade: Some great new features (Live Search!) and a much cleaner interface with less subpages. Check out the Development Update for more details ;-)
What do you think?
Let us know in the comments or via hallo@newsgrape.com!
Best wishes from Vienna,
Yours,
Felix, Leo and the entire Newsgrape Crew
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on September 20, 2011
Le Newsgrapos
Posted project update #20Newsgrape Development Update, 20.09.2011 : European Startup Festival
Post CommentDear Supporters,
Three months after the launch of the Open Beta Newsgrape is running stable and for the biggest part bug free. We have used the time to implement a number of small improvements in terms of usability, to include a feedback forum, develop the Promoter, and to improve the efficiency and speed of our server infrastructure considerably - thats something probably everyone has already recognized :)
During the past few weeks, however, it was a bit quiet in terms of new features. The reason: Our participation in the Startup Week 2011 Challenge, where many hundreds of startups from dozens of countries competed for a place on the stage of the European Startup Festival.
Now it's official: Newsgrape is one of the 50 startups that gets to present between the 3rd and 7th of October. And we have though of something special that we're still working on like crazy.
The Startup Week will be held in Vienna and offers a series of focusevents, a great opportunity for everyone to experience new things and expand one's own horizon. "From Dream to Startup" organized by the Dream Academia, on Tuesday, the 4th October in Sektor5 is most certainly worth visiting.
And anyone thinking globally, who has taken an interest in India should visit "The Indian Startup Ecosystem", by Stefan Mey and Wolfgang Bergthaler, but there's also a Techbrunch by Techcrunch, a Facebook Hackathon and much more .
In the heart of the matter:
"A five-day conference with focus on startups from Central and Eastern Europe on stage. Europe's 50 most innovative startups present their business idea Backstage a top investor panel picks the top ten festival feeling with 12 focus. events and 70 internationally-star speakers. "
It is our great pleasure to be able to be part of this conference. At the same time it poses a great challenge and a lot of responsibility, the audience does come from all over the world!
Everyone who is interested still has the opportunity to get one of the last tickets to the conference, otherwise you can still come to the focusevents - who knows, maybe we'll meet up at the brunch? :)
P.s.: You can visit the original post here, and in German.
Best wishes and a lot of fun,
You Newsgrape Team
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on August 10, 2011
Le Newsgrapos
Posted project update #19Newsgrape Development Update "Startpage"
Post CommentDear backers, friends and supporters,
It's been quite some time since the last update and it's about time that we let you know what's going on and what's happening! :)
During the last couple of weeks we've made quite some progress and are now able to proudly present the new starting page of Newsgrape!
Additionally we've implemented UserEcho, a feedback tool that offers a simple way to communicate with our users. This way, it has become really easy to make suggestions or report bugs, and allows us to keep in touch with our users.
If you'd like to know more, please have a look at this Development Update, and in German.
Let us know what you think,
Felix and Leo
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on July 15, 2011
Le Newsgrapos
Posted project update #18The Promoter has arrived!
Post CommentDear community, dear friends and supporters,
The Newsgrape Beta has now bee online for one month and is increasingly gaining momentum. Over 30.000 unique visitors have resulted in 120.000 page views.
And, after several weeks of development, the time has come to launch the Newsgrape Promoter, our social media campaign manager.
This upgrade is a huge leap forwards and actually the very beginning of Newsgrape's growth. If you wish to find out more, please have a look at the Development Update, also available in German.
Enjoy your evening!
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on June 11, 2011
Le Newsgrapos
Posted project update #17Newsgrape, launch of the Open Beta
Post CommentDear Supporters,
It is our pleasure to announce to you that after the second sleepless nights and us being virtually glued to our computers for the past 30 hours, the all-new Newsgrape Open Beta has finally launched.
Please visit http://www.newsgrape.com and tell us what you think.
Those of you being rewarded with the special Kickstarter icon will notice the update during the following week.
These current days we have to keep our attention on the server infrastructure and bugfixing, so we'll continue with improving the system and introducing new features from early next week on.
I hope you like this improved version of Newsgrape and I wish you all a very pleasant weekend!
Best wishes,
Felix and Leo
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on June 3, 2011
Le Newsgrapos
Posted project update #16Newsgrape Development Update, 03.06.2011
Post CommentDear Supporters, dear Newsgrape community,
Please have a look at our newest development update to stay informed about a range of new features, as well as the ongoing launch preparations and the launch procedure itself! And here is a German translation.
Just one more week until the start of the all-new Open Beta! We hope you're as excited as we are! =)
Cheerio and best wishes from
Felix, Leo and the entire Newsgrape Team
Le Newsgrapos
Vienna, Austria
the Newsgrape team: Leo (22) from Germany, currently studying Media and Communication at Goldsmith's in London and Felix from Vienna, Austria (21), who is studying Business-Law at the local university: two students who, after running an online magazi... view more
