… after much kicking and screaming we have our webspider up and running and therefore we will be beginning to invite people to start using ingesti. Tell us that you are interested in using ingesti.

John Martin - Founder

Development work on ingesti is slowly ticking along and we are preparing for a public release within the next few weeks. You’ll be very excited to know that it will be a full featured version of ingesti as well!

We don’t like the idea of a “cool” BETA and therefore we are waiting to get a finished product before we get lots of people using it (I suppose it will actually be a public beta, it just wont feature a beta icon anywhere on the page).

Keep coming back here for more information on the release schedule of ingesti.

John Martin - Founder

We’ve just had our first round of BETA testers around and testing ingesti and the results are positive. We are now working away fixing bugs and adding some more features to the system. Check back here for updates on when the next BETA test will be.

John Martin - Founder

Finally we have uploaded some nice screencasts of certain parts of ingesti. Prepare yourself for bad audio and much fumbling as I did them in a hurry before leaving the office late at night:

• Registering as a new user
• Tagging a story
• ‘Starring’ a story
• Custom browsing of stories

We shall be uploading some more after my lovely 2 weeks holiday

John Martin - Founder

He’s cold in this image… more will come soon.

John Martin - Founder

We have finally stuck with a simple new logo and logotype.

We got rid of that awful donut and leaf and it is replaced with *trumpets* this something!

Plus: we are no longer holding a BETA, we are just going to get you a working edition and not call it a BETA

John Martin - Founder

We’ve been developing a way for users to control their customised news page and we think that what we have done is quite clever… check out the screenshot see what you think:

You can tell the system how much you like each category/tag and then the system automatically adjusts your news page accordingly!

Neat isn’t it!

John Martin - Founder

ingesti’s development life cycle is reaching it’s peak and we expect a working BETA within the next 2 months. Just to keep you lathered up and frothing at the mouth, here’s a nice preview of out AJAX spell checking engine (that will be available for download, when we get around to it)

John Martin - Founder

I had a few emails through enquiring about the ‘tagging’ element of ingesti. This is how tagging will work:
- Our RSS spider tags articles using an algorythmn to decide what the content is
- Users can further tag an article with what they think is neccessary. Here’s the tagging tool:

That should answer the questions we have received so far!

John Martin - Founder

Some of you may be wondering what ingesti actually looks like? We’ll here are a couple of screenshots of early ALPHA versions running… (the current version is running slightly differently than these screenshots):

Interestingly ALPHA 1 used “drag and drop” navigation to add items to your profile, but this was binned because it was too much of a useability issue.

John Martin - Founder