S60 Touch phone support Released today

EyeMags (eyemags.com), a personal content application generator for all mobile phones, announces today that they can provide full support for S60 Touch phones including the Nokia N97, N97 mini, Nokia 5800, Nokia 5900, Nokia 5230 and Sony Ericsson Satio phones. Content applications are built by the server using WRT widget technology.

Following our successful launch of the iPhone App Creation last week further work with the top end Smartphone market sees us launch support for these latest Nokia and Sony Ericsson Smartphones. Both these technologies build on top of the mobile Java (J2ME) applications used for all other devices.

Now non developers can build their own content applications for most phones from low end to the top end Smartphones and make them available to the public immediately using the EyeMags technology. EyeMags believe this is a world first and expect significant uptake of their service. The advantage for publishers is that these applications are automatically available for all other phone types at the same time.

EyeMags was developed two years ago by founder Robin Jewsbury while working with the Mippin.com team. EyeMags was a prototype system for developing some of the sharing features which were put into Mippin. “What surprised us was the huge uptake in the EyeMags service even though we did not promote it. Nearly 9,000 apps were created in two years and these are now all available for download to the S60 touch phones and the iPhone as well as all other phones” says founder Robin Jewsbury. “EyeMags was such a success that we decided to create a new company, just for EyeMags so we could concentrate on it.”

The applications are simple content applications. They do not have the rich functionality that many Appstore apps have, so Robin Jewsbury does not see them as a direct competitor to the other Appstores. Estimates, appeared this week saying about 20% of the apps in the iPhone Appstore are simple content apps like EyeMags so it’s at this level where there is overlap. The difference is that EyeMags is a one-stop shop for the same content available to all phones and this content can be created by anyone without any development expertise. It is believed there is no other comparable service.

EyeMags is a free service for publishers and consumers of the content and will always be free for low end and feature phones. Creation of Smartphone applications will remain free until the end of December after which time there will be a small charge levied on publishers to enable it for publication. Anything created before that date will remain free for all time so content owner are encouraged to use us sooner rather than later.

You can see how easy it is to create and install an application and watch Robin Jewsbury demonstrate this in less than 5 mins at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N04WvI0xE0Q.

Release of the People's iPhone Appstore

Today, EyeMags.com releases the People's iPhone Appstore. Now anyone can create their own simple iPhone apps and they can immediately by downloaded to iPhones and iPod touches.

Now non developers can build their own iPhone content applications and make them available to the public immediately using the EyeMags technology. EyeMags believe this is a world first and expect significant uptake of their service. The advantage for publishers is that these applications are automatically available for all other phone types at the same time.

EyeMags was developed two years ago by founder Robin Jewsbury while working with the Mippin.com team. EyeMags was a prototype system for developing some of the sharing features which were put into Mippin. “What surprised us was the huge uptake in the EyeMags service even though we did not promote it. Nearly 9,000 apps were created in two years and these are now all available for download to the iPhone as well as all other phones” says founder Robin Jewsbury. “EyeMags was such a success that we decided to create a new company, just for EyeMags so we could concentrate on it.”

The applications are simple content applications. They do not have the rich functionality that many Appstore apps have, so Robin Jewsbury does not see them as a direct competitor to the iTunes Appstore. It does, however, fill a need for people to publish their own content to the iPhone cost effectively and without waiting for weeks for it to be approved. Even though EyeMags are HTML5 Webapps the applications are very different to those on Apples own webapps site at http://apple.com/webapps. This site contains links to websites, whereas EyeMags applications can be installed, run full screen and can be run without network connection to the Internet once installed.

EyeMags is a free service for publishers and consumers of the content. Creation of iPhone applications remain free until the end of the year after which time there will be a small charge levied on publishers to enable it for publication. Anything created before that date will remain free. Additionally publishers will be able to pay a larger but cost effective fee for their apps to be built into native applications which can be published to the iTunes appstore.

You can see how easy it is to create and install an application and watch Robin Jewsbury demonstrate this in less than 5 mins at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N04WvI0xE0Q.

Specific EyeMag examples – on the iPod or iPhone go to the following urls:

http://eyemags.com/4956 world wonders

http://eyemags.com/24 http://eyemags.com/240 http://eyemags.com/23 City guides for London,
New York and Paris

http://eyemags.com/1068 http://eyemags.com/4343 http://eyemags.com/9493 Art or just go to http://eyemags.com on the iphone and browser the 9000 magazines which can be downloaded.

EyeMags 2nd Stage revamp will be announced Wednesday

EyeMags 2nd stage will be announced Wednesday 28th October and it's a big announcement so stay tuned.

Meanwhile we've done a few small additions.

1) Private content is now accessible only through a PIN number that only the publisher knows.
2) Publishers can now see which category their published eyemag has been put in

Small things, the big announcement is Wednesday.

EyeMags 1st stage revamp released

The first stage in re-vamping EyeMags is now complete. The new look and feel is released today. The UI is now clean and simple and much more in keeping with its Web2.0 heritage.

A number of new features have also been added. It is now possible to specify private content and adult content is split into 15+ and 18+. The service is now hosted in the US, so our American users will see improved response times.

There's much more to come, in particular you will shortly see improved support for iPhone and high end touch Nokias.

New EyeMags coming soon

EyeMags has been running for 2 years and has seen the creation of nearly 10,000 fantastic content applications. In that time there has been 14 million downloads of EyeMags to phones.

Now EyeMags is being re-vamped - in October a new EyeMags will appear.

4 Million downloads

EyeMags continues to grow at a steady rate and we've just passed 4 Million downloads over the Christmas break.

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