February 2011
7 posts
Featured Friday: Something for Everyone!
We hope you enjoyed the update from last week featuring social feeds Reddit, Digg, Youtube, Vimeo, Flickr and Picplz. If you missed it, check out the social category in the Pulse catalog to add them to your Pulse. Onto the next one! We have some fantastic new sources this week running the gamut from tech, to beauty & fashion, dog culture, Wall Street, gaming, and food & beverage. No matter...
Moving beyond RSS, Venturing into APIs
There has been a lot of discussion around Really Simple Syndication (RSS), whether it is alive or dead. In fact, a small war broke out on twitter.
At Pulse, we use RSS to power a lot of the news streams, but we have never marketed ourselves as a “RSS reader”. RSS, as many have noted, sounds very geeky - something we find impossible to explain to our mothers. RSS provides the...
Pulse for iPad 2.2: A Faster, Better Pulse
We’re excited to announce a new and improved Pulse for iPad, now available in the App Store. Keep reading to see all of the new improvements and features. Enjoy!
Category Packs: If you have an empty page in Pulse, we’ve added new category packs to choose from based on your news interests. You can easily populate your pages based on our most popular categories of news.
Fast and...
Featured Friday: Valentine's Day and Fashion Week...
We’ve got a special announcment coming later today, but we won’t leave you hanging without new content to add to your Pulse! We have featured content from Nerd Valentine to help you pick some last minute geek gifts for your valentine. We also have fashion week content for those of you who can’t make it to the front row this year from Racked. We also have new content from...
Weekend Treat: Our most requested feature now on...
Happy Friday! For a weekend treat, we’re bringing you our most requested feature: Hiding Read Articles! With our new update, you can now go into settings and select to hide any articles you have read. You can also toggle from hiding read stories to showing all stories right from settings. Learn how with our Pulse Hints post here.
We also found ourselves reading on our Android phones...
Featured Friday: Holy Superbowl, Sports News...
We hope you enjoyed the announcement of our Pulse for Android Honeycomb App! For those of you awaiting an iOS update, we submitted an iPad update to Apple and we’re excited for you to experience it! To keep entertained for just a bit longer, we’ve added brand new sources to Pulse. Bringing you sports news for every fan, we have Bleacher Report and Golfweek. We’ve also included...
Pulse News Expands Into Android Tablets, With The...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – FEB 2, 2010 – Alphonso Labs, creators of the hugely popular Pulse News app, showcased its brand new Android Tablet app at the Honeycomb launch event at Google Headquarters. Alphonso Labs has worked closely with Google over the last few weeks to customize their Pulse News application and take full advantage of the Honeycomb platform. Pulse is also one of five apps...
