Some news

I am definitely not very good at posting news on this blog... But these tracks may just speak for themselves:
Environmental Concerns Thousands of teachers are already regularly using JogTheWeb and building webquests for their students.
A french magazine: Femme Actuelle Simply flip through the pages like with a real magazine
Femme Actuelle – Le meilleur du web The same magazine leveraging its content by including content from around the web
The new reader for an important e-commerce site in France...

JogTheWeb a new reader

JogThe Web has been around since last june and the intitial reader was efficient but could be improved so we asked one of our designers to think it again from scratch. The new reader is now available but the new site still needs some pimping up before we can release it... So en avant première here is Kryptomodes's beautiful track on fashion for your eyes only...

Kryptomode's beautiful track

Here is another one

Whoever is Tom??

And for those who like animations or guitare...

Fun animations

Guitare...

New version on its way

The guys have been hard at it and the latest version sould be ready for "thourough" testing by the end of the week. Our aim is to have the new version online round about the middle of september (this year ;) ).

This new version will be quite important as both the front end (reader, editor and site) and the backend (architecture and servers) have been deeply modified.

Among others here are some of the new features:
- Vocal comments: it will be possible to comment oraly each page of a track
- Sharing tracks: it will be possible to mail tracks or post them to blogs, digg, facebook and other such services
- Skins: for each track it will be possible to choose the reader's skin among an increasing set of available ones. Down the road it should even be possible for users to upload their own skins.
- Comments: The tracks comment section will, at last, look good and, most importantly, be convient to use.
- Open APIs for building tracks will be available and we should be soon integrating a service in facebook
- Editing tracks should be simplified and a track's owner will be able to edit the comments directly from the reader (it won't be necessary to go back through the site).
- User profiles on the site will be more interesting...
- The site layout will be enhanced...
- ... and quite a bit more

And that would be what is visible because the back-end has also been reengineered in order to increase stability (even though we have been doing quite well so far) and simplify adding new features down the road.

Up until now we haven't been doing to well regarding news so this is the first post of many. So do stay tuned and do comment as much as you please!!!

Whoever is Tom

For those still wondering simply follow the guide!

Whoever is Tom

How are we doing

JogTheWeb was finally launched in June and it seems quite popular. According to statistics we have had joggers from more than 50 different countries!

We are now now working on three subjects:
- Communication
- Funding (subprimes haven't helped that much...)
- New version for september...

Sapphire and Steel

Back in 1979, my brother and I spent a couple of weeks with my parents in Gravesend Kent in the UK. We were in a large house owned by friends of my parents. One evening my parents left Ian and mysefl alone in this big place. As we were living in Monaco since 1977 we had lost touch with what was on TV on the english channels... That evening we looked at one episode of Sapphire and Steel and ever since it has been a sort of reference between us ...

I have found on youtube the different "bits" building up the whole "season" and have built a track... mostly for Ian ;-). Simply click on the link below:

Sapphire and Steel

A peep on the latest version of Jogtheweb

Normally, if all goes well jogtheweb's first version will be coming out on the 15th of may (probably 2008). For anybody interested the still very private version can be viewed at:
http://www.jogtheweb.com/revision.php

Do click on a track as you will see a new version for the reader. If you are in a hurry simply click on the following link...
http://www.jogtheweb.com/readerv2/index.php?trackId=14

You'll notice some icons which you may try out (they help you stay on track...)