| Website | alibro.co.uk |
| Blog | eyemags.blogspot.com |
| @robinjewsbury | |
| Category | Software |
| Employees | 2 |
| Founded | 10/09 |
| Description | Mobile phone services |
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.
EyeMags announced support for Native Android apps. Anyone can now create their own native Andoid apps
(1/2/11)
Support for the iPad
Added: 3/25/10
| Website | eyemags.com |
| Blog | eyemags.blogspot.com |
| Stage | Beta |
| Launch Date | October 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.
Create of an iPhone application and then download to iPhone without using iTunes
Create of an iPhone application and then download to iPhone without using iTunes
Create of an iPhone application and then download to iPhone without using iTunes
