So last night my subconscious transported me to China of old. My closest guess is that it was several hundred years ago. By some stroke of terrific luck, I was part of the royal court …
Downtime and Poll Rollin’
Just to let everyone know, tonight at 7:00 EST the site will go down for 30 minutes due to scheduled Google App Engine maintenance. It should come back up again at 7:30PM. We hope it …
Scratchpad
I’ve just uploaded a new practice mode I’ve been working on for a while: the scratchpad. It’s a way to call up some words you want to check out or practice or demonstrate, without saving …
Left Atlanta, Greeted Maksym
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. …
