Great news from our last trip to US. We met some of you, chat a little, did some presentation and even if exhibiting at the Web 2.0 is a bit tiring, each time we hear about you talking about your Dixero and your experience rewards us to the effort we do all the day long. (want to see us at the Expo? Check our latest pics :) )

As at Javits Center were taking place 3 expos at the same time, we met visitors came from a different expo and interested in a lot of different contents. For this reason, we had the chance to talk a lot with non-heavy users and we deeped into the needs of non skilled users, talking about what is a RSS feed or what is a podcast. This situation has been very useful, because we understood what to show and explain on our website and what are the frequently questions a user have in mind when reading Dixero’s website.

We presented a new selection of public channels we added to the service (Business and Politics, Lifestyle, News, Sport, the New York Times) in addition to the two public channel you already know (Entertainment, Internet and technology). We also anticipated our first contest, but I probably need a separated blog post to write a little about it ;)

After New York, we flow to San Francisco and worked a little in our office in Sunnyvale waiting for the Plug&Play Tech Center Expo. We had a space to talk about Dixero and we heard about other experiences. We met amazing people, asked for feedbacks and exchanged views with professionals and businessmen.

Waiting for the next news, we wave at you with an interview blogtalkradio did to Luca…

As we wrote here, we’ve got new plans for september. The activity is growing, we’ve some issues to work on and we’d like to start the autumn with new energies and resources. In order to do this, we’ve started a new round of investments and we can now announce that we just received a new investment of 1.5 ml of dollars that leads up founds to a total amount of 3 ml. This will let us have the opportunity of increasing quality and focusing on the mobile versions of the application.

As we told you in the last blog posts, we are working hard on quality to offer you a better experience with Dixero. We are now implementing new voices that will read your feeds, you’ll start hear changes in a few days with new channels you create and then we count working again on pronunciation during the next weeks. As the changes will need improvements day by day, all your feedbacks are welcome.

Well, here we are. As we’d like to have more than a glance into american culture, we decided to open a new office in Silicon Valley. It’s not only a matter of market, even if it being on site will help us to understand it better and keep tighter contacts with our actual and future business partners. What we’d like to do in our new office is to improve Dixero on site, observing behaviours and listening to your needs. We want to understand deeply how you are using the service to create something closer to what you really want. It will probably lead us up to start introducing local talented people in the team. We have huge projects in mind.

The office is located in Plug and Play Tech Center, Sunnyvale, CA. Here’s a picture Luca took there.

As you probably have seen from our website, in the last months we considered your feedbacks and added some new features. If you have a look at the public channels (eg. technology channel), you can now find the public URL and, as you like it, you can send it to a friend of yours and let him or her know about it. And did you noticed the new face alongside of the player? It’s the avatar that’s reading your feed :)
What’s new in your personal channels? Now you can embed them and add subscribed feeds directly on the “create channel”. After importing feeds and creating channels, have a look at the new “mixed” voice you can choose: Luke, Claire and Lois will take over randomly in reading your feeds. Want to have a look around? :)

Part of the Dixero team is leaving to reach San Francisco and Web 2.0 Expo. Waiting for the official launch, we filmed a few videos with some faces of our team that you may know. You can watch them in our YouTube channel.
In these days we received a lot of feedbacks from you and we are working hard and redesign parts of the service based on your suggestions. So, keep contact us and help us improve Dixero, to let it be the service designed on you :)

We are now releasing all the accounts you requested. We’re just fixing some bugs that your feedback let us know, please be patient with us, we’re working hard to let you have the best experience you’ve ever tried with vocalization. So keep writing us and enjoy your Dixero!

Calling out to all you Tech-Savvy individuals out there…. From April 22-25th, the largest and most important web application expo in the world is coming to San Francisco so guess what else that means? So is Dixero!

Dixero is one of the sponsors for the 2008 Web 2.0 Expo, an amazing opportunity during which you can see the most current innovations in web applications.

Alongside the big names of Yahoo and Google, Dixero will have a space devoted to sharing our visions and passions which focus on presenting the most advanced versions of web applications possible.

Approximately 10,000 people will be in attendance at this years Web 2.0 expo and we want you to be there too!

Because we’d like to be there to hear your ideas and answer any questions you might have about Dixero, we’ll be in San Francisco the week before the conference as well as the week after.

We’re excited to meet you all and to hear what you have to say, so make sure you mark your calendars and sign up for the 2008 Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco!

See you in San Francisco

Here comes Dixero!!

Today finally begins the count down for the events. Dixero is coming!

The countdown ends at Midnight on January 14th, 2008! At midnight, Dixero will start to begin your new daily connection to enjoy RSS feeds. Hey, don’t miss this opportunity to be the first to use this amazingly innovative service!

But don’t forget that you can try out our service during this month (from December 15th until January 14th).

So come and count down with us!

See you there

Well…

In anticipation of the arrival of the Dixero alpha version on January 15th, we have created a special Podcast technology channel just for you. We think that it’s a cool start and technology feeds are very useful as well!

The source feeds report the latest and the coolest news so you can save time and stay informed… Dixero reads for you and vocalizes your interests.

We select the most famous websites to give you the best news and updates. You can try feeds from Techcrunch, Engadget, Gizmodo, Read Write Web and Crunchgear.

But this is just the beginning…