Syntactica: Welcome! Hey, Say Hello to Our New iReader™ Beta!

Ireaderlogo Hi, I’m Henry Neils, the president of Syntactica. And I'm really excited today, both to be debuting our new blog, and making our new “iReader” plug-in download available – all on the same day! Our team has been working very hard to get this new tool out there for your evaluation.

iReader is a totally new way to browse! Where else can you get a text summary of a link without clicking on it? We’re blazing a bit of a new trail here, friends, and we hope you’ll find it a helpful new technology. Most of all, we’re really looking forward to your honest reaction to it – so please send us your comments! That can either be via the comments feature of this blog, for all to see – or if you’d prefer, by emailing us at beta-support (at) syntactica (dot) com.

We definitely want your opinions, comments, and suggestions -- so let us have it! Where will this new technology be useful? On what kinds of sites, or what kinds of links? Note that you can even turn iReader on and off whenever you want -- just right-click. So, use it just whenever you wish, when you hit a site where it makes sense, or perhaps where you don’t particularly want to leave any clickstream tracks? And when you don't need it, just right-click to shut it off.

In looking to get people to try our new tool, we decided to first approach several key bloggers whom we thought might like to review our new beta, and hopefully write about it. We did that a few days ago, under embargo. Richard MacManus, at one of our favorite blogs, Read/Write Web, has already posted. And our local friend Graeme Thickins has also told a bit of our story at his infamous Tech-Surf-Blog.

In getting some of these key influencers out there to weigh in on it, we thought we might then get a fair number of people to download the iReader plug-in, fire it up, and give our newly beefed-up servers a bit of a workout! Note: if we do get a little overwhelmed, and things do slow down, my apologies in advance. Please bear with us, and we’ll deal with making the experience as smooth as possible. We have certainly set up servers for the downloads that are separate from the application. (Okay, duh.)

Welcome to Syntactica! And to our brand-new web site (still in flux!), and – especially – welcome to our new product, the iReader Web Previewer beta!

I hope to have discussions with many of you in the very near future! Thanks for stopping by. Now, please go download iReader -- then tell me if we’re onto something here, would ya?