New Mother Goose App Included Children of Company Founder, Animator in Its Design Process
BOSTON, Massachusetts (February 19, 2010) – Raizlabs announces the release of Mother Goose Classic, its kid-tested, Apple-approved nursery rhyme application. Mother Goose Classic features interactive versions of nine beloved rhymes with original animation and music including Humpty Dumpty, Jack Be Nimble, Jack & Jill, Hickory-Dickory-Dock, Little Miss Muffet, Mary Had a Little Lamb, Hey-Diddle-Diddle, This Little Piggy and Pat-A-Cake.
The process wasn’t easy. Raizlabs developed its own technology to display interactive animation as part of a broader, designer-friendly content framework for the iPhone. The iPhone famously does not support Flash animation. “I’m really excited about this project, not only because I’m a dad and my daughter loves this app but because it opens up so many possibilities for interactive storytelling,” said Gregory Raiz, founder of Raizlabs.
Animator Dave Counts said “My son and I regularly visit kids’ sites together, but watching him respond to something I helped create was incredibly satisfying. I was working for him as much as I was working for Raizlabs.”
Raizlabs’ Mother Goose Classic is available in the iTunes store. The price is set at $3.99. A free version featuring three complete, animated nursery rhymes has also been approved by Apple.
Use the following URL to find Mother Goose Classic in the iTunes Store:
About Raizlabs
Founded in 1997 by Gregory Raiz, a leader in user interface design and technology, the company is a lab for creating new and innovative designs and technology. Raizlabs provides creative solutions in design and software to companies worldwide.
Raizlabs is hosting an online workshop for companies considering building an iPhone application. The workshop will address the risks and the potential rewards of producing an application and having it for sale in the iTunes App Store. The workshop will cover the following aspects of the business including:
How to pick an application concept
What makes an application successful
Building a business vs. building an app
The highs and lows of success
Getting noticed in a sea of 180,000 apps
Apps that compliment your core business
Pricing your application and App Store business models
Designing and developing – what to expect
Is your app social? (Email, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
Wade Roush, lead author for Xconomy sits down with Raizlabs founder Gregory Raiz to discuss recent changes in the Apple review process and what this means for application developers and authors.
Developer blogs and the Twittersphere started to buzz last week with some remarkable news: some new iPhone apps were getting approved much faster, sometimes within a single day… Apple hasn’t said anything publicly about the changes, but it appears that the company is making a conscious effort to simplify and speed up the app approval process. For more about the recent changes, I contacted Greg Raiz, the founder of Raizlabs, a Brookline, MA-based software development house that specializes in iPhone applications.
We recently released an updated version of our travel game JetSetter. The game allows people to compete against each other for travel miles. Flyers can quickly log-in and see who’s racked up the most travel miles in one week, one month or one whole year.
The new version adds the ability to complete against groups of flyers. So you can compete against a group of friends, co-workers or travelers.
Many groups have already formed allowing pilots, passengers, flight crew and business travelers all compete for sky supremacy.
We’re excited to announce a preview for a new application that we’ve been working on. The application is based on the classic Mother Goose nursery rhymes and features original music and animation.
On the Spot Systems, creators of Survey on the Spot won the People’s choice award at the recent Boston based WebInno event. The new startup launched a combination web-service & iPhone application that allows consumers to take satisfaction surveys directly from their phone. The system provides businesses with instant survey information using simple geo-location based surveys.
Raizlabs worked with SurveyOnTheSpot to develop the iPhone application. The application available from the app-store features geo-location services, social network features including twitter and facebook integration as well as camera integration.
We’re happy to announce that Runkeeper has been named by Time magazine as one of the top 10 apps of 2009. Raizlabs has been working with the Runkeeper team on the development of Runkeeper since it’s launch over a year and a half ago. The application has been a consistent top selling, top grossing application in the health and fitness space.
Part movie, part stroll, and part participatory theater, “Walking Cinema: Murder on Beacon Hill,” is a unique opportunity to walk around in the scenery, conflicts, and artifacts of an historical film. Working with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and in partnership with the original PBS filmmakers, Untravel Media of Boston worked with Raizlabs to develop a unique iPhone application that leads audiences along a mile path in Boston’s oldest neighborhood strewn with encounters, clues, and artifacts from a true story of a Harvard Professor accused of killing and dismembering a Brahmin in 1849.
The application is free for a limited time and can be downloaded from the App Store or from www.parkmanmurder.com.
Boston, Massachusetts – The Clock Radio application was released several weeks back to a luke warm response from the US market. After adding some international support the application has skyrocketed to the number 2 spot in Japan, top 10 in Italy and top 100 in Germany. The application is a combination of clock + radio has been a classic for over 50 years and now it’s available for your iPhone or iPod Touch. The new application, designed and developed by Raizlabs makes use of a retro-style LCD clock display with an internet radio dial featuring over 25,000 stations provided by ShoutCast.
The founder of Raizlabs, Gregory Raiz, says: “We thought that the US market was the only way to be successful in the apps business and this has certainly changed our perspective.”
The application features radio streams from many diverse musical and cultural tastes, all powered by ShoutCAST radio. Clock Radio displays an attractive easy to read clock perfect for your desk, kitchen or nightstand. The radio is powered by SHOUTcast(TM) Radio with over 25,000 free stations and well over 500,000 listeners. The combination of clock radio has been a classic for over 50 years and now it’s available for your iPhone or iPod Touch.
What is SHOUTcast(TM) Radio?
SHOUTcast(TM) Radio is one of the largest directories of professionally and community programmed online radio stations in the world. Today SHOUTcast(TM) Radio features over 25,000 stations from around the globe. If you’re into popular or indie music, or want to check out local or world programming, you’re sure to find something you like on SHOUTcast(TM) Radio.
System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later
Raizlabs’ mission is to provide quality software, products and design services for businesses and individuals. We build top selling, award winning applications for the mobile generation.
Today we released a new version of our Tip Calculator application. To date we’ve had over 100,000 downloads. Most of these have been for the bargin price of $0.99. The new version updates the look and feel of the application, giving it the nicer calculator keyboard look and feel.
What sets our tip calculator apart from other similar tools is how easy it makes it to split the bill between many people. The built in adjustment tool allows users to simply use a slider to adjust their contributions. Additional download information can be found here.
Raizlabs’ Mother Goose Classic is available in the iTunes store. The price is set at $3.99. A free version featuring three complete, animated nursery rhymes has also been approved by Apple.
We recently released an updated version of our travel game JetSetter. The game allows people to compete against each other for travel miles. Flyers can quickly log-in and see who’s racked up the most travel miles in one week, one month or one whole year.
Boston, Massachusetts – The Clock Radio application was released several weeks back to a luke warm response from the US market. After adding some international support the application has skyrocketed to the number 2 spot in Japan, top 10 in Italy and top 100 in Germany. The application is a combination of clock + radio has been a classic for over 50 years and now it’s available for your iPhone or iPod Touch. The new application, designed and developed by Raizlabs makes use of a retro-style LCD clock display with an internet radio dial featuring over 25,000 stations provided by ShoutCast.