Archive for August 16, 2009

16 Aug 2009
Here and there • Uncategorized

Reading/viewing list

Lately, while researching, I keep bumping into great things in this jungle of parents/kids/internet/gadgets, and I thought I should share.. (you can see more of them at Vikido’s twitter @vikidoteam)

Style your Barbie (via @chip_chick)

you can pick different Barbie figures, hair, skin color, and then style her according to your to your own personal taste. Press done and in minutes your doll

is being created right in front of your very eyes

iPhone for kids? apparently yes!

This is a beautiful smart blog taking care of this issue (and don’t forget his mother, iPhone for moms)

And as I replayed for someone who asked me “what about the dads”? well, *all* the iphone(s) are for dads..

Make your own nature movie

By  national geographic

Make a touch screen out of your computer (via makezine.com)

A touch screen you put on your PC for $39 – it’s meant for little kids to point and play games, great sulotion

Video for your kids? try Kideos

Cute and fun sorting for specific ages,  easy mark on any video to whom it fits..

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Foe dessert (via LookCool)

The sandwich art..

Bon appetit!


Amit | | Tags: , , ,
02 Aug 2009
Uncategorized

Well, we need a “news” section

As this Techcrunch post was published today..

TC

I do believe that business comes before gender, but happy to be  at such a honorable corporation..

Good luck Orit and Vetrinas, and Gali and Razoss!

Amit |
01 Aug 2009
Updates

Vikido is alpha-testing

Finally, we started testing our UI on parents & kids and it’s been an eye opener on so many levels!

To begin with, we found out how important is the mobile integration on the parents’ side. If you get a message from your child you want to watch it now -  on your mobile phone. Surprisingly enough, sending a video link via sms proved to be easier and more effective than we thought and we are already working on allowing the parent to send back a message, using their phone,  via a video call. “Easier” does not mean effortless and we are battling to get a good world-wide sms cover,  stabilize the video output so it supports the majority of mobile phones, and to improve the video quality.

The UI itself works well for kids. In fact, the younger the kids are, the faster they get it! Parents on the other hand seem to need their own UI -  which will be ready for testing in two weeks.

Many tweaks are necessary for the UI to be accommodating and intuitive. We hope we got the majority of them on our to-do list but it will still take some time before we’re happy with our offering.

Here is an alpha tester at work:

Vikido UI tester

A frustrated Vikido UI tester :-)

Yami |