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Zukmo for Android: It’s here!

N Sai — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:26:01 +0000

Well, the wait is finally over and we are thrilled to announce that our first mobile app, Zukmo for Android has been launched and is now freely available in the android marketplace.

Get it now

Get Zukmo 1.0 now from the Android Market. If you are viewing this page from an Android device, click here to view and install Zukmo Android App from Android Market.

Sign in

Once you have downloaded the app and run it, you will be invited to sign in with your Zukmo ID and password. The Zukmo ID is your email address and the password in this case is the one we had emailed you upon registration. Please note that this password is generated by Zukmo and is not connected to your email login password.

Browse or Search your content

Zukmo for Android comes bundled with a crisp content browsing view, which means that you can easily browse or search through all of your content items such as saved Bookmarks, Tweets, RSS feeds, Notes, Google docs, Desktop Documents etc.

Due to built-in synchronization feature, all the content items that you can view in your personal digital library in the cloud are now instantly accessible from your Android phone. Currently, we list all your content items in chronological fashion by default and provide for a way to list the favorites from the clickable icon on top.

What’s on the Menu?

In order to optimize on the content visibility and ease of use, we have pushed some functionality into the Android menu and present important functionality though long press menu options (Tap and Hold). Please note that for bookmarks, a quick tap will open the reader in which the bookmarked content is displayed in simplified form.

Click your phone’s Menu button, and you’ll be able to Refresh the content listing to fetch all the latest content, sign out the current session, exit the app without signing out and seeking help files.

More interestingly, if you press on any item listed for slightly longer duration, a menu will be displayed that displays the options to Add / Remove from favorites, Save for offline reading, display item in a reader and navigate from the displayed screen.

Within a reader, the same options are also present excepting one menu option (aka original view) which is modified to redirect to the original URL of bookmarked content.

Offline Reading

Whenever content is viewed through the reader on the device, we provide the option for it to be stored offline for easy access later even when there is no network connectivity. This feature is available for bookmarked pages and notes.

If you lose or don’t have network connection at any point of time, using the Zukmo app will provide you with a listing of all such content items that have been saved offline. There is an option to sign back in once network connection is restored.

More to come

This is simply the beginning with respect to our exciting venture in the mobile marketplace and we are laying out a broad plan for unveiling a mobile optimized web site of Zukmo so that our smart phone users can benefit immensely by directly browsing to Zukmo through their preferred mobile browser. In addition, we will also plan on releasing similar feature rich mobile apps for other popular devices such as iPhone/iPad in the near future.

Zukmo is a cloud-based information and content management solution designed for the frequent information consumer. Zukmo indexes user-uploaded files, Web bookmarks, and streamed content, enabling easy organization, searching, and sharing via an integrated suite of tools. Start your free Zukmo account today!

Major Release Announcement

Kieran — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 23:31:38 +0000

As many of you already know (and the rest are about to find out) we’ve been hard at work here at Zukmo over the last few weeks. With just a month’s passing since our last major release, we’re pleased to announce the release of several major enhancements to greatly improve your Zukmo experience. These changes aim to significantly improve the number and quality of content sources that Zukmo can import and handle, and further extend user account management abilities. If you’re just interested in the raw information regarding to the update (TLDR), feel free to browse to the table at the bottom of this article, otherwise, read on!

Notes and Web Clippings:

Until today’s release users needed to import whole content sources to their libraries, even if only a small portion of it was of interest to them. We recognized the need for something more adaptable and that’s why we’re pleased to announce one of our most exciting new features: notes and web clippings. Users browsing through web content who are interested in only select portions can now simply highlight the desired content and use the right-click menu to import it to Zukmo as a note. Notes can also be made from directly within a user’s Zukmo library. Play with it. Learn to love it! These tools aim to make your library more useful, and your life a lot easier.

RSS and Atom Feed Handling:

Speaking of easier, how about those RSS feeds? They do the job of aggregating content on the stuff that’s interesting to us, but what if we follow more than one? For that, we’re pleased to introduce our new RSS feed handler. Think of it as your RSS feed for your RSS feeds. It’s a brain-full, but that’s what we’re here to help alleviate! Users can now subscribe to up to 10 of their favorite RSS feeds directly from Zukmo. This can be done by either by right-clicking the RSS feed button and selecting “Add this link to Zukmo”, or by inputting the feed’s link into the Zukmo library’s bookmark tool.

RSS feed content (title and description) is stored to the RSS section of the library. The option to go a level deeper and store an entire article is also available by simply bookmarking the article itself once it is opened. This permanently saves the article as a separate bookmarked item.

Twitter Changes:

With the way we handle RSS feeds, we’ve chosen to make a few changes to what users can do with their Twitter accounts. On the Twitter website you might find yourself overwhelmed looking for old tweets, but count on avoiding that with us! The latest 1000 of a user’s tweets, and 1500 of a user’s following tweets are now saved to the user’s library, and are indexed for searching. We decided to take it a step further and created an option to add any tweet URLs displayed in a tweet, as an indexed bookmark if desired.

Enhanced Account Management:

In an effort to provide you with better control over your account, we have integrated new areas for users to enable/disable/re-activate their linked accounts. By clicking on an activated service in the upper portion of the screen, a pop-up window will provide the option to disable the service and to additionally retain or delete indexed content associated with the account.

In addition, we have implemented an account usage stats area in the “My Account” profile page. This will display various data regarding a user’s account and the composition their stored data

Changes to Delicious Integration:

With the acquisition of Delicious by the founders of YouTube, there have been several changes to the way Delicious feeds their data to us. Rest assured that we’ve worked to make this transition period as seamless as possible. As it stands, users can continue to import Delicious bookmarks to Zukmo with a linked Delicious account, as they are slated to disable servicing of Yahoo! accounts soon.

Miscellaneous:

Always last, but rarely least, we’ve also done some housecleaning to improve the way Zukmo looks and feels. In our official releases, you can always look below to see a list of the things we’ve changed if you’re interested. Of course, as we always like to remind our users, we rely on your help to improve Zukmo. If you have any feedback, comments, or questions, feel free to contact us at feedback@zukmo.com. We look forward to hearing from you. Happy Zukmoing!

-The Zukmo Team

Feature	Details
Notes & Web Clippings	Users can choose to highlight specific text in any webpage and then add it as notes to their Zukmo account. Users need not save an entire webpage but add just a portion of it as a note. The ability to add notes by simply right clicking on the highlighted text. The ability to add a typed note with title, tags and note description from within Zukmo using the “Add Notes” link on top of the left panel. All the saved notes are indexed in Zukmo so that it can be searched and retrieved. Ability to share note with user’s Facebook and Twitter accounts and Email to friends
RSS Feeds	Users can add their favorite RSS and Atom feeds by simply right clicking on the RSS feed icon of a webpage and using the “Add link to Zukmo” menu item Alternatively one can add the RSS feed URL as a bookmark by using the “Add Bookmark” link in the landing page and Zukmo processes the Bookmark as a RSS feed. All of the feed information such as title, description and published date are indexed in Zukmo and made viewable. In terms of listing of feed items for viewing purposes, all of the user’s feed listings are displayed, indexed and available for searching. However, there is a maximum limit of 10 feed subscriptions. The feed items are listed by subscriptions and is fetched periodically multiple times a day. Ability to save a specific feed as a bookmark to save the bookmarked content for posterity. Ability to add and remove subscriptions using representative icons has been incorporated in the left panel listing the subscriptions.
Account Management	In the “My Account” Profile page, user based space utilization details can now be viewed for each of the Services. The stats on the number of items stored as well as the size of the content stored is displayed along with the status of the services. The total storage quota is also captured. New facility to enable/disable Service Account for a single account has been made available. Upon clicking the activated services, a pop-up window will display to help disable the specific service. Options are presented to either delete or retain the existing indexed content along with the disabling of the service. There is also a link at the bottom of the screen to view other service configurations, which will redirect to My Account settings page available for the service. Any disabled service will be listed at the bottom of the “My Services” page and can be re-enabled by clicking on it provided there are no other enabled accounts corresponding to that service.
Twitter Changes	All user tweets are indexed and available for searching later. However, in terms of listing of tweets for viewing purposes, the latest 1000 of user own tweets are displayed. In terms of listing of tweets for viewing purposes, the latest 1500 of user’s following tweets are displayed. We have provided an option to save tweets permanently as Notes. We have provided an option to add any tweet URL as a bookmark. This option should be displayed if the tweets contain any tweet URL. In this case, the bookmarked content is also indexed.
Delicious Support	Users must now log in with their Delicious accounts to import bookmarks from Delicious, as Delicious no longer provides support for associated Yahoo! accounts.
Other Changes	Login window now includes CAPTCHA registration. Revamping of the My Services and My Account pages. “Refresh” Button provided in the Landing page below the search bar to help with listing of content items up to date and to clear any caching issues. This will only refresh the listing and not the entire page as in case of a browser refresh button. Multiple bug fixes have been implemented to correct some pending issues, Fixing Alignment of the “Add to Zukmo and Share” popup window in IE Fixing IE9 browser hang while asking confirmation for automatic update No tag label for “Untagged” bookmarks Fixing fetching of unmodified documents in Google Docs

Kieran Kay is a Marketing and Business Development Associate for Vembu Technologies’s Zukmo product.

Zukmo is a cloud-based information and content management solution designed for the frequent information consumer. Zukmo indexes user-uploaded files, Web bookmarks, and streamed content, enabling easy organization, searching, and sharing via an integrated suite of tools. Start a free Zukmo account today!

Zukmo: Ahead of the Curve

Kieran — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:25:48 +0000

One of the many responsibilities of working in the rapidly evolving software industry is the need to rapidly respond to new trends and developments. One such development that really caught our eye was the recent acquisition of $2.5M in funding by Readitlater, a company with a product that many have pointed out to us very much resembles Zukmo. Given the a obvious similarities, we decided that we’d take the opportunity to outline what actually make Zukmo and Readitlater very unique products.

Though we could write paragraph after paragraph about why Zukmo and Readitlater aren’t exactly in the same market space (Readitlater focuses on one-time reads, Zukmo focuses on longer-term information management solutions, Readitlater stores content offline while Zukmo indexes it in the cloud for easy management, etc.), a chart always seems to do the trick a little bit better:

	ZUKMO	READITLATER
Functions
Desktop document support	Yes	No
Notetaking	Coming Soon!	No
Web clipping	Coming Soon!	No
Web bookmarking	Yes	Yes
Direct RSS feed handling	Coming Soon!	No
Sharing and collaboration	Yes (Soon Improving!)	Yes
Content available offline	No	Yes
Content stored in cloud	Yes	No
Indexed searching	Yes	No
Simplified viewing	Yes	Yes
Integrated Services
Delicious	Yes	Yes
Twitter	Yes	No
Google Reader	No	Yes
Google Docs	Yes	No
Google Apps	Yes	No
Instapaper	No	Yes
Facebook	Yes	No
Login Integration
Yahoo!	Yes	No
Google	Yes	No
Facebook	Yes	No
Twitter	Yes	No
Mobile Platforms
Android	Yes	Yes
iPhone	No	Yes
iPad	No	Yes
BlackBerry	No	Yes
Browsers
Firefox	Yes	Yes
Chrome	Yes	Yes
Safari	Yes	Yes
Internet Explorer	Yes	Yes
Opera	Yes	Yes
Flock	Yes	No

*Information obtained through staff research and is not independently verified

As it’s easy to see, Zukmo and Readitlater actually differ quite significantly, and Zukmo continues to grow in terms of integration and functionality, weekly. We aren’t aiming for anything less than the best information management tool around. In order to actually shape Zukmo into the best, though, we need your help! Please send us any feedback or suggestions you might to feedback@zukmo.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

How To: Migrate from Delicious to Zukmo

N Sai — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:08:23 +0000

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Announcing Easy Bookmarks Migration from Delicious!

N Sai — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:11:03 +0000

Recent Tech News is that Yahoo has finally offloaded its Bookmarking service Delicious which will become part of a new venture. Existing Delicious users will however be able to export their data if they choose to leave Delicious.

We at Zukmo would like to warmly welcome such new users and we have made it really convenient to migrate your bookmarks and associated tags from Delicious to Zukmo. The only step needed is an authorization for Zukmo to auto import all your bookmarks and associated tags directly from Delicious. New users can login to Zukmo by using their existing Yahoo/Google/Facebook/Twitter accounts and they can simply click the respective icons in the login page to proceed. Once the users login to Zukmo, they can go to Account tab and access the “Sync with Delicious” settings page. When the “Sync Delicious” button in the page is clicked, it will take you through the authorization process and import the bookmarks & tags quickly. There is no need to manually export from Delicious and then import the file into Zukmo, though that option too is provided in our Account Settings tab. The sync also works incrementally and can be used repeatedly to pick any new bookmarks added to delicious since last sync operation performed.

We will soon post a simple Video tutorial to show how easily you can move from Delicious to Zukmo!

Want free WiFi? Head to the G.Y.M.

lux — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:37:01 +0000

Apologies for the corny headline. This has nothing to do with working out.

But it is good news for all those laptops that are backing up online…

G.Y.M. is short for Google, Yahoo & Microsoft. The three companies seem to be in the midst of a flurry of FREE WiFi announcements. Here’s stuff that came through from G.Y.M. in the last 48 hours:

Google announced free WiFi at 47 airports – through the holiday season and into January 2010. They even have a FreeHolidayWifi web site on this. In what could easily be spun as a “limit the joy to Microsoft” tactic, Seattle airport joins the list of 47 a little later.

Yahoo announced free WiFi at Times Square, NYC – for a whole year.

Microsoft, not to be outdone, and in an effort to popularize Bing, has announced an interesting promotion going with JWire. Their “search for access” program offers a session of free Wi-Fi access in exchange for a search on Bing. Users are presented with their search results, and they can then enjoy free Internet service for a specified time period.

So there, you have it. Connectivity can’t be your excuse this season – for not backing up! I’m curious though – how did the free WiFi idea hit G.Y.M. – at almost the same time (all of the above announcements happened in the last 48 hours)

Crunchgear has an article on this too.

Prediction: Amazon will make a similar announcement – soon.

The above post was written by Lakshmanan (Lux) Narayan of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, powers the online backup services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides remote backup, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies & universities.

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