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Jan found a great event for Learnit lists today: a competition for the best European Web 2.0 startup. We need to produce a video about Learnit to submit before the end of tomorrow, and get everyone to vote for us as well. So… my mission for tomorrow is to produce the video. I’m glad […]

Oddcast may be on MTV, but don’t you just think that our application rocks harder than that? We’ve made the Oddcast speaking avatar into the perfect teacher - one that’ll repeat a word a hundred times if you ask it to. Try getting a human to do that.
And when you’ve listened enough, you can […]

Our new release of the learnit widget allows language learners to record their word lists every day. This functionality is provided with a mashup of the MyVox application - which turns every phone into a microphone - and is ad supported so totally free for our users - who just have to pay the price […]

Just spotted an interesting article on TechCrunch - widgets: the marketer’s recession survival tool. But I wonder, is the USA really geared up for a global market?
Our recent experience would suggest not. Some of the biggest multi channel advertising agencies have told me flatly ‘We are not yet selling in-widget ads in Europe’ - […]

We released version one of the learnit widget within two weeks of thinking up the idea. Reactions to it were both extensive and immediate (via our Polldaddy daily research questions); our users told us we needed to add grammar, pronunciation and a test function. Our next release is now here.
It’s taken us two months to […]

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Above is the presentation that we’re using as the basis of the step by step instructions for first time visitors to the learnit widget. I am now in the process of using the presentation as a script for the screen capture video which will be posted on youtube.com/learnitwidget very shortly. Of course you can […]

Since the end of January, our lives have been turned upside down. We have been working all the hours humanly possible in order to make Learnit real. I believe this is typical with Web 2.0 startups.
Our initial release, which went live less than two weeks after we thought up with the idea, has been […]

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We are working hard in response the the market research responses & comments from users of Learnit list. As a result, we will soon have the next version of Learnit - which will include most of the features requested by learners.
If you would like to be part of the private beta test of the brand […]