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Re: Apture.com - multimedia experience on your blog

Tristan — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:49:26 -0000

Hey Rich,

This is Tristan from Apture, I just invited you into the beta :) We're actually working on a new tutorial video right now - the one you integrated above is a little outdated which is one of the main reasons we're keeping things pretty low key for now - we want to make sure we can give users the best experience possible.

Send me an email with any feedback you have,
Tristan

Re: sacadas - Where was I…?

Tristan — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:41:48 -0000

Is that you?

Re: I’ve joined AnyClip - and we’ve launched Casting Couch

Tristan — Sat, 09 May 2009 14:24:29 -0000

Congraulations!

Re: Apture Introduces Next Generation Of Contextual Websites | Social Media Explorer

Tristan — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:34:59 -0000

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the detailed review! Beyond just adding context, Apture searches a huge set of sources (more than thirty different content & media APIs) which will give end-readers to truly see, hear and immerse themselves in the ideas on the page.

For those interested to grab the free WordPress plugin, check it out here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/apture/

Thanks,
Tristan
(Apture Co-Founder & CEO)

Re: Apture Introduces Next Generation Of Contextual Websites | Social Media Explorer

Tristan — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:43:39 -0000

Hi Danny,

We chose not to make the links close automatically because we wanted to let users could dig multiple layers deep without worrying about moving their mouse too far and accidentally cause the window to close. We also saw that the mouse-over and mouse-away are especially bad for people with trackpads and trackpoints, of an increasingly laptop-bound web audience. Unlike a lot of other services you see on the web that use the mouse-out event to hide the window, readers use Apture to really engage, read, and consume the content in the windows, because it's high-quality stuff the author of the post chose for them to see.

That said, we really pay attention to user experience - and we built several shortcuts to close an Apture window more conveniently:

1) You can click on the link that launched the window in the first place (you'll notice the links icon has been replaced with a small (x)).

2) You can click anywhere on the body of the page to dismiss the last window you opened.

3) You can double-click anywhere on the body of the page to dismiss ALL Apture windows you opened.

Think of it as a stack, each window you are opening is added to a stack. And each time you click on the page background, you are closing one window off that stack. Double-clicking gets you back to where you were before.

Hope this is helpful! We'd love to hear more feedback from you, so shoot us an email at contact AT apture DOT com.

Re: The missing parts of daily journalism

Tristan — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:58:14 -0000

Hi there!
Great post, just saw it. Tristan here from Apture, speaking with Matt at SXSW on the panel. I went through the same thinking process when we were grad students at Stanford. The sliding notes idea is a cool one, I hadn't seen it before. Sort of an inline version of Apture. Definitely check out www.apture.com, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on how it stacks up. Basically solves the efficiency problem of making it easy enough to add quick annotations in scale, partly becuase you can use 3rd party content. Instead of writing your own curated context/background info/ "explainer" for your audience (which works great the first time but isn't scalable), Apture let's you re-use existing Wikipedia articles or other media that help readers understand the full story. Best part though is they don't leave your page.

Hope this doesn't sound like marketing speak, it isn't intended to be.

All the best,
Tristan

Re: Apture: cool tool for adding multimedia

Tristan — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:11:19 -0000

Hey Bryan, cool use of Apture and thanks for the post! We really see it as a lot more than adding multimedia to your site in one click. It's about giving people a whole new way to communicate the rich ideas they have... imagine being able to combine a Slideshow, Podcast, interactive Wikipedia guide all in one experience without making people leave. The opportunities are really endless. Here's one great example of a site that's pushing the boundaries:
http://www.brandsouthafricablog.com/

Best,
Tristan
CEO, Apture