Woohoo! Wattpad Delivers The 10 Millionth Page To Mobile Phones

Toronto, Canada (PRWEB) June 27, 2007

Wattpad, the global leading story sharing community for mobile users, today announced that it has served over 10 million pages to mobile phones. Developed using Wattpad Mobilize technology, Wattpad Story Sharing Community is one of the fastest growing platforms enabling users to consume user-generated content on mobile phones.

“In April 2007 we officially introduced the service for mobile users worldwide to discover, read, and share stories on their mobile phones. We are extremely happy that we grew from zero to 10 million in a very short period of time,” enthused Ivan Yuen, Founder of Wattpad. “With over 60,000 user-generated stories already available to our community, we have definitely reached critical mass for the next phase of growth. A recent user survey indicates that 93% of our users are satisfied with the user experience, we are very proud to achieve significant growth while maintaining high level of user satisfaction.”

Detailed survey summary is available on Wattpad’s official blog (http://wattpad.wordpress.com/).

With mobile phone being the electronic device most people carry all the time, these stories are now instantly accessible by anyone anytime anywhere – whether you are reading short stories at bedside, reading funny jokes while commuting in the underground or viewing lyrics while listening to music on your mobile phone.

Wattpad Story Sharing Community is like the text version of YouTube with a Digg style system that uses tags, categories and voting to determine the popularity of stories. All the stories are contributed by Wattpad users. Joining the community is free. Anybody can signup and upload whatever he or she wants to share – a short fiction, an essay or a joke, and then read it on mobile phone using Wattpad Reader or send it to friends via SMS. Wattpad Reader is a small ad-supported Java ME application which let users download and read stories available in the Wattpad community.

To download Wattpad Reader, go to m.wattpad.com on your mobile phone’s browser and follow the link to download. Wattpad Reader works with most mobile phones from major manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG, Sharp, Sanyo, Panasonic, BlackBerry and many more.

More information about Wattpad is available online at http://www.wattpad.com.

About Wattpad Story Sharing Community

Wattpad Story Sharing Community is the global leader in mobile user-generated content. According to research published by Informa Telecoms and Media and the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), the market for mobile user-generated content will be worth US$ 13.2 billion by 2011. Developed using Wattpad Mobilize technology, Wattpad Story Sharing Community was the first community to provide a platform to discover, read and share stories on mobile phones. With mobile phone being the electronic device most people carry all the time, these stories are now instantly accessible by anyone anytime anywhere. Wattpad Story Sharing Community now has the largest selection of stories available for mobile users. For more information, please visit http://www.wattpad.com.

About Wattpad

Wattpad’s vision is to bring rich media readable content to all mobile users. Wattpad’s flagship Wattpad Mobilize technology allows content publishers to effortlessly reach billions of mobile users with a highly optimized user experience, combining content delivery and viral distribution elements. With Wattpad Mobilize, Wattpad is a complete technology provider for unleashing the potential of the mobile market.

For more information, please visit http://www.wattpad.com.

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Odiogo"s Web 2.0 Service Enables The Popular Politico Website To Be "Listened To" On Mobile Phones, iPods And Computers.

(PRWEB) June 26, 2008

Arlington, Virginia and Jerusalem, Israel, June 26, 2008 – Politico, a top 20 newspaper website as ranked by Nielsen Online, announced today the availability of Odiogo’s Listen-Now and Podcast capabilities on http://www.politico.com. Politico has now provided its website visitors with an easy and instant way to hear text articles. With Odiogo’s technology, Politico readers can become listeners and consume their favorite content while multitasking or on the go.

Odiogo’s solution automatically converts internet articles into high fidelity audio files, enabling listening to internet news sites and blogs on PCs and portable devices. Politico now provides any situation access to its on-line content, enabling its community of readers to ‘listen to’ their favorite articles just as they would listen to a traditional radio program. Politico’s articles can be accessed on-the-go (eye free situation) and while multi-tasking, and Politico’s readers are no longer restricted in how and when to consume their favorite online text content. Odiogo also introduces accessibility improvement for foreign readers and the vision impaired community.

“Since the inception of our website, we have been embracing web 2.0 best of breed services,” said Roy Schwartz, VP of business development for Politico. “The Odiogo solution is a continuation of this trend as it allows us to create another layer of distribution to fit some of our users’ news consumption habits.”

“We are thrilled that Politico has chosen to enable its site with our technology,” said Marc Kawam, CEO of Odiogo. “We have continued to experience significant adoption of our solutions across a variety of web and blogger sites, and the addition of Politico further confirms that website visitors are looking for alternative ways to consume content, ways that are more compatible with their mobile and busy lifestyles.”

Kawam added, “The paradigm of sitting in front of a PC and browsing news sites has now given way to new consumption habits. Today’s news consumers want to access and consume their favorite content anytime, anyplace, and as easily as possible. For example, more and more users are plugging their phone or iPod in their cars which allows them to create their own radio station with the music they like and the news sources they trust.”

“Additionally, affordable Internet access rate plans from mobile phones are creating new usage patterns. Odiogo allows end users to listen to selected news over the Internet, and these users no longer need to zoom and scroll on the tiny screens anymore in order to read a story.”

How it works

Odiogo’s infrastructure monitors the content published by Politico and scans articles as soon as they are posted. The generated high fidelity audio files can then be listened to on a variety of devices: the PC through the Listen Button feature, via Podcast on iPod/mp3 players, and on mobile phones (including the iPhone).

The audio generated by Odiogo is near-human quality, and the text-to-speech transformation is based on continuously updated dictionaries for addition of foreign words, acronyms, company names, etc. Additional technical advancements, such as content coloring and translation of formatting attributes will enhance the user experience even further.

The Politico-Odiogo service can be reached at: http://www.politico.com/odiogo

About Politico

POLITICO is a Washington, D.C.-based political journalism organization that distributes its content via the internet, newspaper, television and radio. Its coverage includes Congress, Washington lobbying, and the 2008 presidential election. POLITICO and POLITICO.com launched in January, 2007 with the mission of covering politics with enterprise, style, and impact. POLITICO is a publication of Capitol News Company, LLC.

About Odiogo

Odiogo (http://www.odiogo.com) is a pioneer in the ‘media shifting’ space, where content created for one medium is made available for consumption via many media. Odiogo provides an intelligent and automated bridge that links text-content providers and bloggers with mobile phone and MP3 enabled device users (e.g. iPod, other portable media players, PCs, etc.). Odiogo enables content providers and bloggers to quickly and automatically generate audio from textual content, allowing consumers to easily ‘listen to’ their favorite online news/information.

Thousands of bloggers have already signed up to the free service on http://www.odiogo.com and installed the widget for popular blogging platforms such as TypePad, Blogger, WordPress, TeraPad, MojoPortal, Drupal, BlogEngine.Net, etc.

For More Information Contact:

(press @ odiogo.com)

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Odiogo"s Web 2.0 Service Enables The Popular Politico Website To Be "Listened To" On Mobile Phones, iPods And Computers.