October 2010
11 posts
Featured Source Friday Featuring The Daily Meal,...
Every Friday we will be updating our featured sources section to include news with engaging content and stunning images. Our featured sources are a way to discover new content from newspapers, blogs, comics and social sites. We hope to keep you coming back each week for more!
So what have we got this week? Fantastic magazine and blog content brought straight to you in Pulse News Reader!
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Pulse for Android goes social with Facebook feed!
Today we updated our Pulse News for Android app with two of our most requested features, the Facebook Links Feed and Scrollable Widget! You can now view the links shared by your friends from your Facebook newsfeed. Your social news experience is no longer separated from the Pulse experience on your favorite blogs, traditional news sites and magazines! Get it all with Pulse!
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Pulse goes International with Localization & Brand...
Today we released the long awaited version 1.1 of Pulse News Mini for iPhone filled with some of the most requested features from our users! In addition to landscape view, customizable font size and swipe between articles, we have also added localization for support of Chinese, Japanese, German, French and Spanish! We want to make sure that Pulse is available and easy to use for as many as...
Featured Source Friday: Huffington Post, Salon &...
The Featured Sources this week include some of the best sources on the web with full content and beautiful images. Look to featured sources each Friday as a way to discover new content and rediscover the content you already love. This week we’re featuring Huffington Post and Salon, which have partnered with Pulse and given our users RSS feeds with full content and images. This is just...
It's Featured Source Friday!
Every Friday we will be updating our featured sources section to include news with engaging content and stunning images. Our featured sources are a way to discover new content from newspapers, blogs, comics and social sites. We hope to keep you coming back each week for more!
This week we introduced the Pulse badge, which is placed on the sites of our featured sources. See a Pulse badge on the...
Even More Featured Sources!
This week, our featured sources are from across the board. We have featured Advertising Age, Instructables, Joystiq, Quiet Earth and Wooster Collective. These sources were chosen because they bring a unique point of view and have beautiful images to experience within Pulse.
To add these sources to Pulse: Go to Settings in Pulse for iPad, tap to add a source and select the Featured Sources tab...
Wow - you really like the 2.0 release!
In one of the entrepreneurship classes at Stanford, I remember Andy Rachleff saying, “if everybody likes your idea/product, you’re doing something wrong. a great company has a non-consensus idea/product.” Over the last few months, Pulse was not doing too bad. For every 5 people who loved Pulse (5 stars), we had 1 person who thought it was complete rubbish (1 star). The latter...
New Pulse for iPad Featured Sources
We’ve added brand new featured sources to Pulse for iPad from The Consumerist, Lifehacker, Make Magazine, and Lonely Planet. These news sources were chosen because they look fantastic in Pulse and include beautiful images and interesting content. Experience news in a visual way with these great sources in Pulse.
Here’s How: Go to Settings in Pulse for iPad, tap on the Featured...
You requested it, You got it - Android WIDGET is...
At Pulse we really, deeply believe in making news consumption non-hierarchical. It’s a pain to go back and forth between the home page and articles/sources. In today’s world, we get information from a lot of different sources, and we want to bring all those sources together on one page. That’s a core value Pulse provides.
The most requested feature on our Android platform...
Celebrating 2.0 release.
We missed you, Purin! Hurray for a successful launch! Back to work tomorrow!
Introducing Pulse 2.0 for iPad
It’s been 4 months since we first launched our iPad app. And it’s been one heck of a ride. In that short span, we’ve released 6 updates - some that added features, some that improved performance, some that improved the visual design, and so on.
We’re a tiny team of Stanford graduates who took inspiration from our favorite app developer, Igor Pusenjak (of Doodle Jump...
