微软新办公软件 Sway 面向所有用户开放
微软 Sway 是一款用于制作演示文稿的在线工具。这一工具目前已公开发布。此前有许多用户正在等待使用这一产品。
Sway 的正式推出已在意料之中。不过,令人有些惊讶的在于微软 在博客中公布 的关于这款产品的一些数据。
以下是来自微软的消息:
目前距离我们发布Sway预告 仅仅只有 10 周时间,而 Sway.com 的独立用户访问量已经超过 100 万,有 17.5 万人申请使用这款产品。这一数字仍在以每天数千的速度增长。
10 周时间是 70 天,这意味着到目前为止,Sway 网站平均每天的点击次数达到 14285 次,注册申请达到 2500 个。实际流量还可能更高,但由于微软仅仅提到“超过 100 万”,因此我们无法了解更精确的详情。
我无法猜测,像 Sway 一样的产品能获得什么程度的流量。这款产品来自一家大公司,这是一个很大的优势。不过,持续的等待很可能会不利于流量和用户申请注册的兴趣,至少到目前为止如此。
(微软,请继续提供数据。)
由于不再有传统的文件,例如由 Office 创建的文件,因此 Sway 是一款有趣的产品,基于云计算平台。毫无疑问,微软正在 将office转成云计算平台 ,从而通过用户订购获得经常性销售收入。我们将看看,这款产品将会有什么样的表现。
Microsoft’s New Office App, Sway, Is Now Open To Everyone
Microsoft’s Sway, an online tool for creating presentation documents, is now generally available to the public. Previously, a waiting list was in place.
That Sway has taken down its rope line isn’t surprising. What is perhaps slightly unexpected are the metrics that Microsoft announced in its blog post concerning the product’s availability.
Here’s the company:
It’s been only 10 weeks since we kicked off Sway Preview, and we’ve already had over one million unique visitors to Sway.com and over 175,000 requests to join, and those numbers grow by thousands daily.
Ten weeks is 70 days, implying that Sway has seen around 14,285 hits and 2,500 signups per day, so far, on average. The actual count on the traffic side of things is slightly higher, but as Microsoft only specified “over one million,” we can’t be more precise.
I would have had no guess what sort of traffic a product like Sway could attract. It’s from a large company, so that was an advantage. But being placed behind a wait list likely detracted both traffic and signups, at least until now.
(Microsoft, please keep the numbers coming.)
Sway is an interesting product given that it doesn’t have traditional files, like the original Office suite. So it was built for the cloud. Microsoft, of course, is working to convert Office into a cloud product that it can sell on a recurring basis via subscriptions. We’ll see how well it does.
来源:TC
台湾教育应用开发商QLL 融资45万美元,剑指国际市场
QLL(Quick Language Learning,快速语言学习系统)是一家台湾教育类移动应用开发商,该公司获得了45万美元投资,领投方为B Dash Ventures,参与投资的还有Incubate Fund,Pinehurst Advisors,Viling 以及Coent Venture Partners。这家创业公司与加速器项目AppWoks 是同期毕业生。
自从2007年成立以来,QLL 已经开发了大约150款iOS 及Android 应用,该公司称这些应用在台湾被下载了650万次,目前月活跃用户数超过30万人。其产品包括Pocket Chinese Tutor,一款能纠正用户中文发音的应用,以及数款针对儿童的双语故事应用。所有的QLL 应用都对用户数据进行分析,从而提供个性化的学习课程。
如今QLL 希望杀入包括日本、韩国、东南亚、加拿大、美国在内的国际市场,其武器则是一个能让教育工作者开发、交换电子学习资料的平台,即便他们不懂编程也能使用。这一平台将会覆盖包括移动设备以及智能电视在内的多个平台,。QLL 将首先在新加坡推出应用作为试点市场,接着才会进军美国以及加拿大,在那里该公司将会寻找当地渠道合作伙伴。在印尼,QLL 很可能会选择华为作为他们的分发合作伙伴。
该公司专注于为二到六岁的儿童开发应用,此前曾与索尼、华为、富士康以及Fuhu 公司则样的硬件制造商合作,从而将其软件预装到平板电脑、智能电视和智能手表中。
联合创始人兼首席执行官叶璐璐(音译,Lulu Yeh)表示,QLL 之所以能与多邻国(Duolingo)相提并论,是因为这家创业公司也专注于语言学习,不过与面向个人用户的多邻国不同的是,QLL 的目标市场为教育工作者和学校。QLL 与可汗学院(Khan Academy)的相似之处在于同样提供了视频内容和测验项目,不过QLL 的不同之处在于它专注于亚洲语言课程,而可汗学院目前并不提供相应内容。
QLL 的收入来源于将内容授权给公司或在线教育工作者,应用销售和应用内购买,以及广告(叶表示,目前QLL 应用内广告每月展示量达到1000万次)。
原文:
Taiwan-Based Educational App Developer QLL Raises $450,000 For International Expansion
QLL, a Taipei-based developer of educational mobile apps, has raised $450,000 in funding led by B Dash Ventures, with participation from Incubate Fund, Pinehurst Advisors, Viling, and Coent Venture Partners. The startup is an alumnus of accelerator program AppWorks.
Since its launch in 2007, QLL has developed about 150 iOS and Android apps, which it claims have been downloaded 6.5 million times in Taiwan and now have over 300,000 monthly active users. Its products include Pocket Chinese Tutor, which corrects users’ Chinese pronunciations, as well as several bilingual storytelling apps for kids. All of QLL’s apps leverage user analytics to deliver personalized learning sessions.
Now QLL wants to expand into international markets, including Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, Canada, and the U.S. with an online platform that will allow educators to develop and exchange digital learning materials, even if they don’t know how to code. The platform will be available on multiple platforms, including mobile devices and smart TVs. QLL will first launch its apps in Singapore as a test market, before moving onto the U.S. and Canada, where it will seek local channel partners. In Indonesia, QLL will likely work with Huawei as a distribution partner.
The company focuses on apps for children aged two to six and has previously partnered with hardware makers like Sony, Huawei, Foxconn, and Fuhu to put its software on tablets, smart TVs, and smart watches.
Co-founder and CEO Lulu Yeh says QLL is comparable to Duolingo because the startup also focuses on language learning, but unlike Duolingo, which is geared towards individual users, QLL’s target market is educators and schools. It is also similar to Khan Academy in that it offers video content and tests, though QLL differentiates by focusing on Asian language courses, which Khan Academy currently does not offer.
QLL monetizes by licensing its content to businesses or online educators; through app sales and in-app purchases; and advertising (Yeh says QLL’s in-app ads currently get 10 million impressions per month).
来源:TC