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Every Once In A While ...
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 3:06AM
... it's nice to get a wee bit of recognition.
Going back almost 5 years now, I co-founded a small Web 2.0 startup called Qumana. Our aim was to make it easier for bloggers to assemble snippets of content and then stitch together and publish blog posts that had a rich mix of text, images and audio, video or slides, for example.
We also offered bloggers the unique capability of inserting advertising into a blog post whenever, wherever and however they wanted ... if they wanted to use advertising. But bloggers could use Qumana without using the advertising function.
We ran out of money about 2 and one-half years ago, but left the web site up. People continue to download the tool and use it with satisfaction.
It was also a factor in our decision to put things on hold that Microsoft came out with the blogging tool LiveWriter, an almost direct clone of Qumana. We now sometimes talk of Qumana as LiveWriter for OS X.
There's still a lot of potential, in my opinion, for such tools to be integrated (with RSS and Twitter, for example) for use in the enterprise setting.
Anyhow, here's a nod of recognition from a magazine focused on OS X tools.
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Going back almost 5 years now, I co-founded a small Web 2.0 startup called Qumana. Our aim was to make it easier for bloggers to assemble snippets of content and then stitch together and publish blog posts that had a rich mix of text, images and audio, video or slides, for example.
We also offered bloggers the unique capability of inserting advertising into a blog post whenever, wherever and however they wanted ... if they wanted to use advertising. But bloggers could use Qumana without using the advertising function.
We ran out of money about 2 and one-half years ago, but left the web site up. People continue to download the tool and use it with satisfaction.
It was also a factor in our decision to put things on hold that Microsoft came out with the blogging tool LiveWriter, an almost direct clone of Qumana. We now sometimes talk of Qumana as LiveWriter for OS X.
There's still a lot of potential, in my opinion, for such tools to be integrated (with RSS and Twitter, for example) for use in the enterprise setting.
Anyhow, here's a nod of recognition from a magazine focused on OS X tools.
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Reader Comments (5)
You! .... Well, JH, I could *never* get the damn thing to connect to Blogger. For I don't know how many OS X iterations now. Always wondered, Is it down for everyone or just me.
We did not have resources for a long time, and so could not make the fix needed to have it work properly with Blogger. We did, however (I believe / sorta remember) get around to implementing that fix about 6 monbths ago with a bit of "volunteer" programming, so I believe that it (Qumana) works with Blogger / Blogspot now. I can check if you want me to ... although it is shameful, we don't worry too too much about what it does and doesn't do any longer because ... well ... because it's free and so ... well, you know the rest of that story.
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