I have finally returned from the IALLT conference. All told, the conference was a success. When we first arrived, we were a little concerned that we couldn’t recoup our investment because it was such a …
Live from IALLT
Okay, so we’re here at the IALLT conference, talking about Skritter and pursuing a few institutional site licenses. IALLT is pretty small, but we’ve been able to have quality conversations with a number of educators, …
On the road
George and I are off to the IALLT conference today, where we’ll get a chance to show Skritter to educators and get more feedback on it from a teacher’s perspective. The conference runs until Saturday, …
Paypal Up
You can now pay us with Paypal as well as Google Checkout! And soon I’ll be adding a monthly auto-billing option, but I recommend simply purchasing the larger time spans instead, since it’ll be much …
IALLT and Being Pro at Cooking
Since officially launching we’ve been working on a myriad of small things. Nick fixed some audio playback bugs, Scott has been working to get our Paypal payment system up and working, and I’ve been producing …
Launch!
It’s been 11 months since we started working full-time on the Skritter web app (after 9 months of my part-time development on the handwriting recognition), and launch is here. But we’ve had users learning with …
Vocab Lists: Take 4
The vocabulary list page has had a long and storied life. First it was just a set of drop downs; you chose what lists you wanted to start with and that was pretty much it. …
Confusion Is A Mighty Foe
Today George and I were graciously given some lab time with Oberlin students studying their first year of Chinese. We went and threw waves of them at our software to see what they could defeat …
ChinesePod, New Lists, User’s Guide, Launch and Pricing
This is a long blog post! For those who prefer getting their information graphically, we have made a comic to give you the jist. We’re very excited to announce that soon you will be able …
New Vocab List Page Design
Hey everyone, we just uploaded a new system for controlling your vocabulary lists. If you’re having trouble seeing it, try clearing your browser’s cache. There are no new features in this new design, but we’re …