Recommendation engines, personalized banner ads, adaptative news readers… Did you recently buy a brand new guitar? A new car? Did you notice that all of a sudden your guitar and your car were everywhere on the web? Did you know you could have saved USD 10 if you had chosen another retailer? Did you read something about windsurfing in the Canary Islands? All the web seems now to be focused on this topic. Even newspapers are now sending us articles about things we’re already aware of…
So much automated tools now analyze our online behavior that the Web seems to be more and more limited, narrow, almost a virtual jail cell! Read the rest of this entry »
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At Mantano, we definitely prefer deep blue skies and shining sun. But when it comes to securing our beloved readings and sharing our annotations with friends, clouds are welcome!
In a previous blog post, I announced with a fair amount of optimism that Mantano 1.6.0 would provide access to advanced “cloud” services such as online backup of the user’s library, data synchronization between the user’s devices as well as sharing of books and annotations between users. The 1.6.0 release was full of improvements, but it did not include them. In fact, shortly after having designed the initial cloud service, we decided to go further, see bigger and build a really more ambitious project than initially expected. We obviously needed more time to do it.
Today, I can reliably announce that the Mantano Cloud platform and the corresponding 2.0 release of Mantano Reader are close to go into private beta.
Let’s see what will be inside…
(This post was also posted on Mantano’s website)
We’ve decided to further widen the audience of our book reading application, by replacing the 7-days Trial version by a Free version. Of course we need funding to keep improving the app, developing new features, providing support, and supporting the Adobe DRM. Read the rest of this entry »
OPDS support is probably the second most required feature after two-pages view mode. It will be rolled out in the very next release within a few hours! The team will probably reach the deadline scheduled today, this is also a great milestone and will extend the reach of the app. Some users were still using alternate apps to download books from online catalogs, they won’t have to do this any longer.
So good I bought it twice! I’ve tried all the rest, Mantano and the team blow all the rest out of the water. A+ for the app and A+ to the devs.
Almost perfect!!! I downloaded all the Ebook and PDF apps I could find… I uninstalled all the others.
We’ve released it yesterday. Mantano Reader 1.5 is a major milestone for us, really a big step forward. That’s why we’ve jumped a few version numbers, from 1.2.4 to 1.5. As I said in my previous post, this is hopefully not the end of the road, just the beginning of a new era.
My latest company, Mantano, is 1 year, 4 months and 3 days old. For those who don’t know it yet, it’s a software company focused on mobile applications development, with a strong focus on e-reading and collaborative work. After almost 500 days of insane software development run, we’re entering exciting days for a startup. Days that make you an entrepreneur forever.
Here’s why.
Dans mon billet précédent, je rappelais que vos conseillers n’étaient pas à votre place. Cependant, ces appuis ont une valeur inestimable, ils peuvent vraiment être un phare. Quelque soit la motivation qui vous pousse à suivre leurs conseils, ils vous pousseront bien plus loin que vous ne le pensez. Read the rest of this entry »
Créer et développer une entreprise innovante sans s’entourer de conseillers est vraiment risqué, sauf à être dans la fausse innovation. Entourez-vous de conseillers qui ont eux-même vécu cette expérience, et fuyez tous les autres. Read the rest of this entry »
Arrivés depuis Taipei en moins de 48h à Paris CDG, nos derniers prototypes mettront sans doute 2 fois plus de temps pour arriver jusqu’à Paris Opéra ! Pour l’instant, le suivi Fedex m’indique fièrement: « Retard dédouanement »…
Mise à jour: cette fois Fedex n’annonce même plus de date de livraison (initialement c’était aujourd’hui avant 12h :- )
Je l’ai trouvé. Le thème WordPress Wu-Wei, un peu customisé avec des couleurs quelque peu flashy, me convient parfaitement. Rien d’inutile, de la rigueur mais pas d’ennui. Adopté !