Hope you’re enjoying your holidays!
SpanishPod Product Update
Just one thing to report this week: new subscribers to SpanishPod will be treated to a “Welcome Podcast,” featuring the SpanishPod team explaining their roles, as well as some crucial concepts that are important to the SpanishPod experience. New subscribers will automatically receive the “Welcome Podcast” in their […]
Archive for December, 2007
SpanishPod Product and Community Updates
Published by December 26th, 2007 in News and SpanishPod. 2 CommentsChinesePod Product Updates
Published by December 24th, 2007 in ChinesePod, Features and General. 0 CommentsHere we are again, telling you what’s new on ChinesePod.
You can once again choose in your personalized feed whether to include simplified characters, traditional characters, or even both.
There is a new “Welcome Podcast” for the new users. You “old users” can still go listen, of course…
As for future features:
Expect new exercises later this week. (OK, […]
It’s been another big week at Studio Fiesta…
SpanishPod Community Updates:
Thanks, everyone, for all your encouragement, your support, and for getting the word out about SpanishPod. Today, SpanishPod was #2 among educational podcasts according to iTunes USA, and #45 in overall podcasts. Even more impressive are the great reviews we’re getting on our […]
ChinesePod Product Updates
Published by December 17th, 2007 in ChinesePod, Features, General and News. 3 CommentsHere we are again, fulfilling all your ChinesePod news needs.
Free and Basic users will notice that there are now some sections of the site “grayed out.” This is part of an effort to make clearer which features are part of Basic/Premium services.
Lessons now have a pop-out player (look for the link right under the Flash […]
The holidays are almost upon us, but at 88Groups we’re trying to dish out some learning gifts a bit earlier. Here are some highlights from the last week:
Brendan reveals a great character — 嚏 — for making your Chinese friends lose a little bit of face on Character Insanity.
Bill offers an alternative to Character Insanity […]
This week the Chinese Hanban (China’s equivalent to the British Council, Alliance Française, Goethe-Institut, etc) invited ChinesePod up to Beijing to attend the second annual Confucius Institute Conference. A group of us braved the snow in Beijing and introduced ChinesePod to the global network of Confucius Institutes.
More on the conference can be found here:
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/6316507.html
SpanishPod Product and Community Updates
Published by December 12th, 2007 in ChinesePod in the media, Interviews, News and SpanishPod. 0 CommentsIt’s been a big week here at Studio Fiesta; here’s the low down:
Community Updates
José Álvarez Díaz, a correspondent from the Spanish news agency EFE sat down with us for a few minutes earlier this week in Studio Fiesta to talk about our podcasts. That conversation has turned into international exposure for SpanishPod (as […]
ChinesePod Product Updates
Published by December 10th, 2007 in ChinesePod, General and News. 3 CommentsWhen something new happens on ChinesePod, you can read about it here! All the bug fixing of late has gotten real results, so we’d like to bring to your attention:
User vocabulary has long since been migrated, and the users that have reported any missing vocab have had any missing words brought back from limbo.
The ChinesePod […]
Now that 88Groups has been open for a few weeks, we’re starting to see some lively groups form and discussion begin. We’re also seeing a variety of groups form, and we think that from this variety there will be some really interesting content in the coming weeks and months. Some groups to watch (and […]
We were informed this week that ChinesePod is featured in a recently published book titled “Why Buy the Cow?”. The interview was done over a year ago (says a lot about the publishing industry), but the words still ring true:
ChinesePod’s business model threatens the industry incumbents because it re-arranges the supply chain. The company is […]
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