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Websitealibro.co.uk
Blogeyemags.blogspot.com
Twitter@robinjewsbury
CategorySoftware
Email
Employees2
Founded10/09
DescriptionMobile phone services

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Tags

app-builder, magazines, mobiles, iphone, ipad

Alibro

Alibro Ltd is a new startup founded in Oct 2009 by Robin Jewsbury who previously co-founded RefreshMobile Ltd which created Mippin and Mobizines products.

Alibro Ltd is the holding company for the EyeMags product. EyeMags is a personal content application builder. It was running as an experimental product within RefreshMobile between 2007 and 2009. During that time over 9000 magazines/applications were created. The distinction from other similar systems is that the apps are fully self contained they do not go online in normal use cases as all the content is included in the app - this mirrors the real word user experience of going to a shop and physically picking up a magazine. In the case of the iPhone the app works in different ways to as described above.

Milestones

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    Alibro added Robin Jewsbury as Founder.
    Posted 9/29/09 at 11:28pm
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    Alibro

    EyeMags announced support for Native Android apps. Anyone can now create their own native Andoid apps

    (1/2/11)
    Posted 1/2/11 at 3:41am via blogspot.com
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    Alibro — EyeMags reaches 6M downloads in only 11 months (8/27/10)
    Posted 8/27/10 at 1:06pm via blogspot.com
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    Alibro — 3 Million download reached after 8 months and number of unique users doubled in the last month (6/1/10)
    Posted 5/30/10 at 12:13pm via blogspot.com
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    Alibro — Release of iPad second version and iPhone second version with signficant improvements. (5/1/10)
    Posted 5/19/10 at 4:44am via blogspot.com
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    Alibro — Release of iPadMags, now anyone can create iPad Magazines for the iPad and 1,000s of other devices (3/25/10)
    Posted 3/25/10 at 12:39am via blogspot.com
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    Alibro — Release of EyeMags Pro for professional Magazine producers. Now Magazine applications can be built for all platforms fully branded as their own applications. (2/2/10)
    Posted 2/10/10 at 1:49am via blogspot.com
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    Alibro — Release of People's iPhone Appstore. Now everyone can create their own iPhone apps and install them on their iPhone or iPod touch (8/27/10)
    Posted 10/27/09 at 2:23pm via youtube.com

Videos

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Support for the iPad

Added: 3/25/10

Screenshots

Alibro screenshot
Above: Screenshot of iPhone App
Uploaded: 10/28/09

Products

EyeMags

Websiteeyemags.com
Blogeyemags.blogspot.com
StageBeta
Launch DateOctober 1, 2009
Tags apps, app-factory, mobile-magazines, app-builder, cross-platform, ipad-magazines, iphone-magazines

EyeMags is the worlds largest App Factory. More than 11K apps have been created by users with each app built 7 times in different technologies resulting in 77K apps created. It does for Apps what You-tube did for Video.

The apps created are currently simple media apps with pictures and text, but this will change in the future. The apps created are small magazines which are downloaded and installed in totality on the phone and therefore there is no need for further network activity. For technical reasons the iPhone version works slightly differently, but even that is fully functional offline - iPhone apps are installable webapps and do not need to be installed from or QA’ed by iTunes. For Nokia touch phones the WRT technology is used and for all other phones J2ME is used. The solution for Android was released in Jan 2011 and supports Android 2.x and above.

The EyeMags system was available as a prototype system for 2 years from 2007 to Oct2009. During the first 2 years over 5,000 apps were created and tens of millions were downloaded in period when there was no marketing and little software development from the initial work. It was this success which promoted the founder to form a separate company in Oct 2009 just for the development and promotion of EyeMags.

In Decemeber 2009 EyeMags announced support for full whitelabelling of the product with an example implementation for a Fashion Blog network at http://mobilemags.360fashion.net

In February 2010 EyeMags announced Pro EyeMags, the ability to fully whitelabel the application with a company’s own brand. This whitelabelling is available from a web browser. The user uploads his logos and selects the colours he wants and the apps are built for all the phones using those graphics. Just 3 difference sizes of graphics need to be uploaded and each is 50% of the previous size. This option is sold as a yearly fee of $999, plus a per magazine price of $49.

In March 2010 EyeMags released support for the iPad

In May a 2nd improved iPad and iPhone versions were released.

In June 2010 EyeMags released support for paid EyeMags, enabling publishers to create and then charge for their apps without any coding.

In June 2010 EyeMags announced there had been 3Million app downloads since EyeMags was relaunched in Oct 2009.

In Jan 2011 EyeMags announced Android native app support. It’s now possible to create apps for 1,000s of different phones available worldwide.

Videos

Above:

Create of an iPhone application and then download to iPhone without using iTunes

Above:

Create of an iPhone application and then download to iPhone without using iTunes

Above:

Create of an iPhone application and then download to iPhone without using iTunes

Sources

  1. Video of how to Create a EyeMag App for iPhone and install it (youtube.com) [edit]
  2. Profssional Publisher features added to EyeMags (eyemags.blogspot.com) [edit]
  3. Announcing support for the iPad (eyemags.blogspot.com) [edit]
  4. Version 2 iPad Magazines (eyemags.blogspot.com) [edit]
  5. 3M Downloads in last 8 months (eyemags.blogspot.com) [edit]
  6. EyeMags reaches 6M downloads (eyemags.blogspot.com) [edit]
  7. Create Native Android Apps (eyemags.blogspot.com) [edit]
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