PimpMyNews iPhone Tip: Add To Home Screen

Many of our users report that they use our service to catch up on their favorite news and blogs on-the-go. On trains and planes, at Starbucks and gyms, ...well, you get the idea.

For our iPhone and iPod Touch users, here's a quick tip to make sure PimpMyNews is always at your finger tips...

Add PimpMyNews to your Home Screen in 3 easy steps:

1. On your iPhone or iPod Touch, go to www.PimpMyNews.com/m

2. Tap the plus sign ["+"] at the bottom of your screen, and select "Add to Home Screen."

3. Tap the "Add" button at the top right of the next screen, and the PimpMyNews icon will be placed on your home screen.

That's it! Next time you need news in a flash, just tap the PimpMyNews icon.

Thanks for listening with PimpMyNews.

What YOU Said About PimpMyNews - Survey Results

We're obsessed with listening to YOU, our valued users. And, we know that our continued success is directly tied to reacting quickly to your feedback. To that end, we recently conducted a User Survey. And, we received a lot of great feedback!

Here are some of the key findings from the PimpMyNews User Survey:

• The majority of users access PimpMyNews on iPhones and iPod Touch Devices. These users also reported the highest overall satisfaction rate.


• Nearly half of all respondents said they use PimpMyNews 3 or more times per week.


• The top 2 benefits users reported were: Number 1, the "Productivity Benefit" of being able to listen to news & blogs while doing other things, like driving, working out, etcetera. And Number 2, the ability to instantly receive "News I care about"


• Many users also suggested that we offer additional ways to "customize" PimpMyNews to their liking, which we're already working on.

Our Top 5 Favorite User Comments are:

1. "Thanks to PimpMyNews, people think I'm much smarter than I am. I'm more informed all the time."

2. "Excellent idea, excellent execution. Keep improving."

3. "I'm kind of a PimpMyNews Junkie."

4. "I have no attention span, so it's perfect."

5. "Dig it all. Hard."

Thanks to everyone who responded to the survey. If you haven't taken it, please click here to take The Survey - If you'd rather shoot us an email, you can reach us at Suggestions@PimpMyNews.com (we review every email, immediately).

You can rest assured that we're continually working on improvements. And, we'll be announcing some really cool new features in the near future, so stay tuned.

Keep the great feedback coming. We'll always be listening!

John & Roy

PimpMyNews Schwag, Embroidered Lids!

PimpMyNews users seem to like to share stuff with their friends, whether it's posting "talking stories" to Twitter, Digg or Facebook, or sending their PimpMyNews podcasts to others.

So, here at PimpMyNews, we've been checking out different "Schwag" vendors, looking for the coolest T-shirts, hats, wrist bands and stickers we can find.

This weekend, we stopped by The Embroidery Station to have "Saw-heed"[it's really spelled "Said"] stitch up some cool PimpMyNews lids, for us to pass around for feedback. (If you're following us on Twitter, you may have seen our tweet about him stitching up his finger. Ouch!)

We think the hats turned out incredibly cool, and we're thinking about giving a few a way as part of an upcoming charity drive for the blind, which we'll be doing with Wine Library TV's Gary Vaynerchuk (more on that soon!).

Check out the PimpMyNews lids in the pictures, and tell us what you think! Shoot us an email at Suggestions@PimpMyNews.com

Hey PimpMyNews Users: Please Take Our Survey!

Dear Genius / PimpMyNews User,

Yes, we mean you, the person reading, or listening to, this blog post. We built PimpMyNews for you, and we'd love your opinion, so we can serve you better.

>>Please Click Here To Take Our Brief Survey

It's only 10 questions ;)

Thanks in advance for your help!










Roy Georgia & John Atkinson
Founders of PimpMyNews
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Fun Facts About PimpMyNews:

• Since December, people from 155 countries have used it
• 1,132 of the web's top news & blogs are now talking on PimpMyNews.com
• We now have 939,504 "talking stories" online, with 5,000 new stories added daily.
• You can share any "talking story" to Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Digg, & other social sites
  

Memorial Day: A Real Reason To Celebrate

To honor our military servicemen this Memorial Day weekend, we asked Trish Forant to write a guest post for the PimpMyNews blog. Trish is the president of http://www.emailourmilitary.com/ , a popular service that connects ordinary people like you and me, with members of our armed forces.

To remind others of the real meaning of Memorial Day, please share this post by clicking the envelope icon.

A big "THANKS" to the members of our armed forces, and "Thank You," Trish!

Here's Trish' post:

Throughout our history, we have been blessed by the courage and commitment of Americans who were willing to pay the price of their tomorrows. They have fought and died for our freedom, and have kept us sleeping secure each night in safety.

Every one of them, from all different backgrounds, races and religions, no matter what battlefield they died on, every one, helped to build this strong nation we love. I'm proud to be an American and I don't take my freedom for granted.

The great German poet, Goethe, said to his generation:

"What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours."

We inherited freedom. We seem unaware that freedom has to be remade, and re-earned in each generation of man. As you spend this Memorial Day weekend with your family and friends, remember those who came before you and paid the ultimate price, paving the way for the freedoms we enjoy.

Take a moment at 3:00 pm eastern today, Memorial Day, to pause for a National Moment of Remembrance.

If you'd like to thank a veteran, or connect with a military service member one on one, but don't know one personally, stop by the http://www.emailourmilitary.com/ projects page to learn how you can get involved.

Scoble is "Shocked How Many Like PimpMyNews"

Just yesterday, in FastCompany magazine, Robert Scoble and his Twitter followers named PimpMyNews a favorite iPhone application, ranking #2 to Google Reader, in the news category.

While on Twitter today, we spoke (or should we say, "tweeted") with Robert about the accolade, and we loved his response so much, we just had to post it here on the PimpMyNews Blog.


Here's the transcript from Twitter:

John: "Scobleizer, great FastCompany iPhone story - We're glad your fans like PimpMyNews! Big things in the works. We would love to share the vision with you."

Robert Scoble: "I was shocked how many people like PimpMyNews. Would love to hear more."

John: "We're shocked too! It is taking off - since December, People from 154 countries have used PimpMyNews (80% from the US, 86% on mobile devices)"

John: "We've made a lot of enhancements based on early adopter feedback - Could you ask your fans to send me theirs?"

See the image of the conversation on Twitter below. We're looking forward to sharing our vision with Robert Scoble, and we'll do a blog post of the conversation to keep you in the loop.

Thanks for listening with PimpMyNews, and keep the feedback coming! Oh, and be sure to follow us on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/JohnAtkinson

Robert Scoble Names PimpMyNews "A Favorite iPhone App"

Since our December launch, we've been lucky to have received lots of positive coverage from the blogosphere, but this one really took us by surprise, in a very good way.

Regarded by many in the tech industry as "the man with his finger on the pulse of early adopters," when A-List Blogger Robert Scoble talks, a lot of people, including us, listen.

In the June issue of FastCompany magazine, the great "Scobleizer" gives a full run down on the iPhone application he loves, in a story titled "Star-Spangled iPhone." These are the killer apps that, as he puts it, "add skyrockets to your 'genius'" phone.


Scoble and Fans Weigh in on Mobile News Apps

Before writing the story, Robert asked the 18,000+ early adopters following him on Twitter to chime in on their favorite iPhone apps.

In the "news" category, Robert and his followers named the iPhone-optimized version of PimpMyNews their second favorite application. Second only to mega-popular Google Reader.

Considering that there are more than 1,500 applications listed on Apple.com, we're pleased... no, to be honest, we're pinching ourselves, to share the leader board with Google.


Here's an excerpt from Scoble's FastCompany story:

"I am still a Google Reader addict, and so are many of my fans. Reader was mentioned in my poll more than any other app. Another one that came up often was PimpMyNews.com , which turns text blogs into MP3 audio files, so you can listen on the go." (the iPhone/iTouch version can be accessed at www.PimpMyNews.com/m )

Robert also mentions his, and Steve Rubel's, fondness for sports news application sportstap.mobi, which he describes as "quite good."

Check out the full story on FastCompany's website: [http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/126/star-spangled-iphone.html]

You can also check out Robert Scoble at http://scobleizer.com/


A Message to Robert: If you're reading this, or listening to this on PimpMyNews, we'd love to share our much larger vision with you. We're good guys, rapidly building a new media platform for the future, based on user feedback.


Thanks to everyone for listening with PimpMyNews, and please tell your friends about us. And, keep your feedback coming to: Suggestions@PimpMyNews.com

John
Co-founder & CEO
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About PimpMyNews
PimpMyNews makes your favorite news & blogs TALK, so you can get current by listening, anytime, anywhere. It continuously scans the web for breaking stories, and converts them to audio, so you can listen on your computer, or, on-the-go on your iPhone, iPod, or any MP3 player.

Get current, save time, and listen on-the-go with PimpMyNews.

>Create your personalized account on your Mac or PC at: www.PimpMyNews.com/SignUp.aspx

>Access the iPhone/iTouch app at: www.PimpMyNews.com/m