Posted by Aaron LaBerge on August 26, 2010
Streaks finally hits 3.0. With our latest release, Streaks becomes the most beautiful, simple-to-use, and reliable productivity application on the iOS platform.
Here are the release notes for version 3.0 (app store link):
• Beautiful, high resolution graphics, optimized for the iPhone 4 and Retina display
• Individual themes for each calendar
• 2 new themes: Beachy and Clipboard
• Current Streak is no longer penalized if you have not marked the current day
• Numerous performance increases and bug fixes
Thanks to everyone who uses Streaks and provides us feedback. We really appreciate it and it helps to make our product better with each release. Please keep your feedback and feature requests coming. We’re listening.
Download Streaks 3.0 now or visit our product page to find out more.
Aaron LaBerge
CEO & Co-founder
aaron@fanzter.com
Posted by Aaron LaBerge on June 16, 2010
Last month, we
announced that CoolPapers had served its one millionth wallpaper. Yesterday at 9:32 PM ET, a
CoolPaper’s user from Sandy, Utah downloaded our
two millionth wallpaper.
CoolPapers continued to be a big hit for us and we just wanted to say “Thank You” to all of our customers.
Here are a few updated numbers:
- Over 175,000 installs in 167 counties, including Angola, Haiti, and Mozambique
- Average wallpapers downloads per user: 15
- Most wallpaper downloads by a user: 5,705
- Over 250 new wallpapers added daily (from coolspotters.com)
If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, and you haven’t downloaded CoolPapers yet, please go check it out (it’s FREE).
Thanks again for your continued support.
Aaron LaBerge
CEO & Co-founder
aaron@fanzter.com
Posted by Aaron LaBerge on June 14, 2010
We’re excited to announce our latest app for your iPhone and iPod touch. It’s called Summizer and it helps you organize the always expanding Twitterverse.
Summizer is an incredibly useful tool for anyone who wants to follow trends on what’s being said about their favorite sports team, celebrity, movie/TV show, or any other topic. Summizer saves your searches and automatically notifies you when something new related to those searches is tweeted. It’s a great time saver and it ensures that you never miss a beat on whatever you’re interested in (including measuring the pulse of your company’s products).
Following on the heels of CoolPapers and Streaks, Summizer is Fanzter’s third mobile app to be released in 2010, continuing a tradition of launching products and technology that are fun, useful, and unique. We hope you enjoy them.
So if you have a moment, check out Summizer and let us know what you think — we’re always eager to hear from you!
Download Summizer now or visit our product page to find out more.
Aaron LaBerge
CEO & Co-founder
aaron@fanzter.com
Posted by Jon Maddox on June 2, 2010
At this year’s D8 Conference the reputable Steve Jobs had this to say during his interview.
“We’re just people, running this company. We’re trying to make great products for people. And so, we have at least the courage of our convictions to say, ‘we don’t think this is part of what makes a great product, so we’re gonna leave it out.’ That’s what a lot of customers pay us to do, is to try to make the best products we can. And if we succeed, they’ll buy them. And if we don’t, they won’t.”
I can’t think of a better way to describe what we’re doing here at Fanzter. Our number one goal is to make awesome things around contexts that people love.
All of us here at Fanzter are huge fans of movies, music, TV series, sports, video games, technology, and other things in pop culture. We want to make products around things we love. I had an iPod when it was a huge brick. I’ve owned every video game console in history, sometimes more than once. I spent a fortune on the iTunes store the day it came out. I’ve used every media center platform that exists. I maintain an Xbox Live subscription, not for playing games online, but for access to the media and online content they provide. And I rarely actually use any of it day to day. But I’ve spent HOURS playing with them all.
For me, its about the experience. I like to just play with these things. I like to study them. To see what is great, and what sucks. More times than not, things suck.
Here at Fanzter we like to think we know what is great, but more importantly, what sucks. Only in knowing what sucks, can you make something great.
There are a lot of contexts out there that people are passionate about. This is where we will be. We know all too well that fans of movies, tv, sports, etc, are not being served, because we ARE these people! So we’re extra motivated to make kick ass things for these fans.
Stick with us, because we have a lot of awesome things planned. We’ve been dabbling in the iPhone world for the last couple of months but will be shifting to some much bigger things soon.
Jon Maddox
VP, Tech & Product Development
jon@fanzter.com
Wow, that was fast.
Today at 11:07 AM ET, a CoolPaper‘s user from Paris, France downloaded our one millionth wallpaper. We just wanted to take a moment to say thanks to our customers. Because of you, CoolPapers has served over 1 million wallpaper downloads in just three months.
Here are a few other interesting numbers:
- Over 50,000 installs in 167 counties, including The Maldives, Jamaica, and Kyrgyzstan
- Average wallpapers downloads per user: 14
- Most wallpaper downloads by a user: 3,964
- Over 200 new wallpapers added daily (from coolspotters.com)
CoolPapers is the ultimate wallpaper app for your iPhone and iPod touch, and with our latest release it just got better. Please go check it out.
Thanks again for all your support.
Aaron LaBerge
CEO & Co-founder
aaron@fanzter.com
Posted by Aaron LaBerge on March 30, 2010
Today we’re removing the “Beta” tag from Coolspotters and launching a new new features. You can read more about it on our Coolspotters blog post. Enjoy.
Aaron LaBerge
CEO & Co-founder
aaron@fanzter.com
Posted by Aaron LaBerge on January 28, 2010
Today we announced the launch of CoolPapers, a wallpaper application for your iPhone or iPod touch.
CoolPapers allows you to personalize the home screen of your device by providing access to the most extensive collection of pop-culture related photos available on any mobile platform.
CoolPapers taps the vast library of photos on Coolspotters, and optimizes and enhances them, allowing you to choose from over fifty-thousand wallpapers featuring your favorite celebrities, movie posters, album art, cars, products, brands, and more. The app also takes advantage of Coolspotters’ association engine to recommend related wallpapers.
We’re really excited about this app and we hope you enjoy it.
Aaron LaBerge
CEO & Co-founder
aaron@fanzter.com
Posted by Aaron LaBerge on December 17, 2009
It’s been several months since we acquired Mustache, Inc. and their great suite of applications. The acquisition is complete, so over the last few months we’ve been focusing on developing new products, as well as also upgrading some of our existing products — and Streaks is one of them.
Streaks is a motivational calendar for your iPhone and iPod Touch. It is a simple, smart way for anyone to track the consecutive days it takes to reach a certain goal. For each day that you accomplish your task, you mark it on the Streaks calendar, motivating yourself to keep the streak going. In our integration of Mustache into Fanzter, there have been a few hoops in re-publishing the application through the App Store. During this time we’ve appreciated all of the requests for Streaks’ return, and we’ve been moving quickly to respond.
So today, we’re happy to say that Streaks is available once again. It is now optimized for the 3.0 OS and has many other performance enhancements as well.
Download Streaks now or visit our product page to find out more.
We hope you enjoy!
Aaron LaBerge
CEO & Co-founder
aaron@fanzter.com
Posted by Aaron LaBerge on December 16, 2009
Last week Coolspotters launched a new partnership program aimed at celeb-savvy brands who want to reach the perfect audience.
You can read more about it here:
http://coolspotters.com/blog/2009/12/16/coolspotters-rolls-out-new-e-commerce-partnership-program
Aaron LaBerge
CEO & Co-founder
aaron@fanzter.com
Posted by Aaron LaBerge on November 23, 2009
We just launched the 2009 Coolspotters Holiday Gift Guide. Full of only the very best and very latest products in the world today, we hope you’ll take advantage of it during this busy holiday season. It was designed to make it easier for you to find the perfect gift for the fashionistas, the entertainment lovers, the gadget buffs, the sports enthusiasts, and just about everyone else, in your life.
Check it out and have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Aaron LaBerge
CEO & Co-founder
aaron@fanzter.com
