Word Count Journal, and other cool things coming in 2007 December 18th, 2006 by Matt
This past year has been really great at MakaluMedia. The company has grown in its core space business, and has moved into a couple of exciting new partnerships in the areas of web infrastructure and applications.
In addition to some new, and really cool, Drupal-based platform work in Europe that I can’t talk much about (yet), we’ve had the awesomely good fortune to have hooked up with a very successful software entrepreneur in the United States, with whom, over the course of 2007, we’re going to be building and launching a series of consumer applications that we hope will positively impact people’s lives.
The first app will launch on January 1, and is called Word Count Journal:
http://www.wordcountjournal.com
Word Count Journal is a new blog format where you write one word your first day, two words the second, three words the third, etc. By the end of a non-leap year you’ll have written a total of 66,795 words, more words that most novels.
This unique writing rhythm is great for those who want to improve their writing skills, one step at a time. The site supports private and public journals. You can create a private group to share journals between friends, classmates or family.
This site will be a free community service; one that we hope will be particularly of interest to schools, and is appetizer in the forthcoming portfolio of applications.
The second app is called Catalog Choice, and will have a major impact on the mail catalog industry, empowering the consumer to take control over the paper catalogs they receive in the mail.
The third app will be the main course, and represents an innovatively fresh twist to an old industry. Can’t talk about it much yet either, but stay tuned!
December 18th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
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December 18th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
It has been great working with you guys over the last couple of months. Over the years, I have have the good fortune to work with many talented developers and a few who did not have the chops. It is cleat that the Makalumedia team has talent at every position - design, development, user experience and deployment. I am looking forward to a productive and exciting run in 2007.
Chuck