Hello out there,

I’d like to Welcome our latest slew of beta users to Apture.com.  Thank you for registering and welcome to the Apture community!  While you’re here, feel free to learn more about us and the Apture experience.

Most importantly, get to know your fellow Apture users! Feel free to comment on each other’s pages; share ideas, questions, comments and concerns. 

Here are a few of our Featured Users who’ve already “Aptured” their sites:

Sports Blogger BenMVP  uses Apture to highlight players in the NBA Playoffs like Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal .  He really makes use of Apture’s ability to add related content and combines Web Clips, YouTube videos, and Wikipedia articles to give his readers more in depth knowledge about his favorite players.  The result is a rich experience like none other! Check out his examples here:

 http://www.benmvp.com/2008/04/there-can-only-be-one.html

Music Blogger Razvan is one of our biggest fans and he makes fantastic use of audio content via iMeem.  With Apture, his readers never have to navigate away from his page to hear the latest song he’s reviewing, read a Wikipedia article about the band, and view pictures of the band on tour all at once! See what Razvan has to offer here:  

http://www.metalz.info/MetalTorrents/QUEENSRYCHE_Take_Cover_2007_256_kbps/

As always, we love hearing from you.  How are you using Apture?  Send us your examples at feedback@apture.com

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for the silence, we have been absolutely swamped by the overwhelming response we’ve had to our public unveiling last Tuesday.  To those who are signing up for the Apture beta and waiting to be let in, we’re working hard to get you your invitations, so just sit tight!

In the mean time, check out some great reviews we’ve received from around the web:

Om Malik at GigaOm.com writes:

[Apture's] preview has a high IQ. This is what I really like about this service, because it allows me to add true context to what I am writing. You can add the same content by copying and pasting code from, say, Flickr, or YouTube or Veoh, but Apture makes it dead simple to add this content.

Anthony Ma from VentureBeat.com writes:

There are plenty of products trying to achieve some of Apture’s goals …

But from the brief preview I saw, Apture provides some of the best implementation of these ideas.

Whitney Trettien, a Graduate Student at MIT in Comparative Media Studies, writes:

I hate, hate, hate blogs with hover-over previews on every link — as if I need to see the Amazon.com page for every book the author cites, or the GIS coordinates for every place. … So I was skeptical of another tool to help us all “intuitively experience the web.”

But Apture works surprisingly well. 

…

In the hands of the right author, I can imagine this producing quite elegant texts, and vivid reading experiences.

Our good friends at Scribd also wrote up a great post about using Apture to embed all of your favorite document files using their iPaper format in Apture’s dynamic multimedia environment:

Apture adds cohesion to the web by integrating linked information from various sources into the context of the original page in new and visually appealing ways.

We couldn’t be happier about what people are saying about Apture.  There’s lots more to come… and if you’re still on the waiting list for the beta, we promise to get you your invitation as soon as we can!

What you see today is the result of two years of arduous thought, late-night conversations, breakthrough technical innovations, and bold dreams.  We started this company on a mission to enhance empathy, and deepen one’s experience of the world.  Today, we feel like we’ve built a powerful new communication platform that will have implications in broad spectrums of industries, and have democratizing effects on how people anywhere and in any language, richly communicate themselves.  We look forward to having an open conversation here with you, and to sharing our thoughts on how we could make the web a more fascinating and more lucrative medium for both individuals and publishers alike.

We also can’t wait to see how you all use Apture, so sign up now!