Revolutionary Web-Platform on Kickstarter

One year of intense work was put into development of the revolutionary Online-Platform Newsgrape, that a young team under the students Felix Häusler (21) and Leo Fasbender (22) from Vienna, Austria, have now presented to the public on Kickstarter.co

Vienna, Austria (I-Newswire) December 8, 2010 - Newsgrape is a free online platform with the sole purpose of facilitating the sharing of articles and literary contributions. Offering a transparent anduser-friendly interface , Newsgrape is easily accessible to users of all ages and ensures thequality of all its content through an interactive rating system based on innovation and simplicity. In other words, imagine a YouTube for texts.

Video "Newsgrape in 60 Seconds" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqBVOxy0mEc&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Whether reports or essays, recipes, poems or aphorisms - Newsgrape is a place for everything. It has never been this easy to share written contributions with other people. Or to put it this way: Newsgrape allows writers to reach more readers than ever before, and readers, to always find the right reading material: a variety of charts, categories, genres, tags and rubrics allows readers to find the right reading material for every mood.
It can accommodate multilingual users , connect relevant content, help you to found your own magazine and write/publish collaboratively with your friends. Additionally, it allows you to generate profits from your contributions (up to 60% of the income is returned) and gives you the opportunity to be discovered as a writing talent. It also provides a useful comment board and functions as a partner for established online media.

A smart navigation system allows a maximum of user-friendliness: The "E-Go-Site" solely displays subscribed authors and magazines. The Online-RSS-Reader makes it your first, diversified News-Portal.

DEVELOPMENT

Newsgrape operates on a specially designed engine, based on a modern version of "Django", a variation on the famous "Python” engine that is so far already consisting of approximately 11.000 lines of code. The development of Newsgrape Alpha 1.0 has so far accumulated 5.440 hours of work, from over thirty people from all over the world (from Germany or Singapur to Serbia, Croatia or Hungary)

KICKSTARTER

With $12k Newsgrape Pre-Beta 1.0 can launch this winter. In case 50k are reached, server capacities could be increased drastically so the traffic in the States will be much quicker. In case over 120k are pledged, the team will immediately begin with the development of the irreducible complex Advertising and Affiliate System so users can generate profit much quicker.

Main facts of the Pre-Beta Version

- Interface available in English and German.
- Users can already write and publish in dozens of other languages.
- Strictly restricted access keys. During the Pre-Beta phase the algorithms and the databases are being calibrated and every Pre-Beta user is expected to contribute with his personal feedback.

Newsgrape Beta 1.0 online two months later
- Open registration for everyone.
- Additional languages for the interface and publishing.

Newsgrape 1.0 fully operational summer 2011

- The Advertising and Affiliate System is up and running and successful writers can finally generate easy profit from their contributions!

- Countless new features!

ABOUT THE FOUNDERS

Felix Häusler, Co-Founder and CEO
Born in 1989, Felix has spent most of his time in Austria, where he grew up in a family of marketers. In 2007 he started working as a Marketing Assistant for a DJ Agency where he worked for almost two years. In addition to various job assignments from the areas of event management, web- and print-designing, Felix worked as an advertising voice for many radio and television spots while studying Business-Law at the University of Vienna.

Leo Fasbender, Co-Founder and CEO
Leo was born in 1988 in Straubing, Germany. Following an exciting childhood where he spent a couple of years in Moscow, he moved to Vienna in 1999. Last year Leo landed in Newcastle upon Tyne to study two semesters of Marketing, Politics and Media Studies. During his gap year, he was a sales manager in a small company. In September 2010, Leo moved to London to study for his Bachelor Degree in Media and Communication at Goldsmith’s University, knowing that it would eventually benefit towards his work for Newsgrape.

RELATED LINKS
Newsgrape on Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/18635175/newsgrape

Project Page: http://kickstarter.newsgrape.com/


Video "Newsgrape Presentation": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7LDSmjY42Q&feature=related

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