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Thursday, June 16

Press Release: Lektora Joins Qumana

by arieanna on June 16, 2005 09:45AM (PDT)

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

Contact
Qumana Software Inc.
Tris Hussey
(250) 537-1234
media@qumana.com

Lektora Joins Qumana – Now A Continuous Flow … From Feed to Post

Vancouver, BC - June 15, 2005 - Qumana Software Inc. announces that it has acquired the exclusive rights to market the browser-integrated RSS aggregator Lektora.

Lektora is an innovative and easy-to-use RSS aggregator that works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Lektora is available free in both English and French versions under the Qumana release. Lektora was developed to give readers a simple, clear interface that would make them feel like they were flipping through a personalized newspaper. Lektora is available in a free ad-supported version or a paid ad-free version ($29.95). For more information visit www.lektora.com

This acquisition follows on the heels of the successful launch of QumanaLE, a free publishing tool that makes blogging easy. QumanaLE and Lektora were designed to make reading and publishing to blogs fast and easy.

Fred Fabro, CEO of Qumana Software—“Acquiring Lektora gives us another piece of the digital workflow puzzle … integrating Qumana with Lektora’s functionality will give readers everywhere an instant WYSIWYG publishing tool”. Now you are able to go from opening up Lektora, flipping through updated feeds, reading something, and with a simple drag and drop gesture capture the content that you want to quote or the picture you want to highlight, and then publish directly to a blog from the Qumana WYSIWYG editor.

As Fred Fabro noted for the launch of QumanaLE, “With Qumana, and now Lektora too, you're ready for Web 2.0”.

About: Qumana Software is based in Vancouver, BC. Qumana’s mission is to make blogging easier and more profitable for bloggers everywhere. Qumana Software is complemented by Qumana Services, a consulting company specializing in helping companies communicate better using blogs and other social networking tools. For more information visit www.qumana.com

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Monday, June 13

PRESS RELEASE: Qumana launches FREE publishing tool for easy blogging

by Tris Hussey on June 13, 2005 01:47AM (PDT)

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

Contact

Tris Hussey

Qumana Software Inc.

250-537-1234 ph

tris@qumana.com

www.qumana.com

Qumana launches FREE publishing tool for easy blogging

Vancouver, BC - June 13, 2005 - QUMANA launches new and innovative blog software that makes blogging fast and easy. Qumana Software announces the availability of QumanaLE: a simple and easy–to-use blogging tool. “It works the way you do”—Fred Fabro CEO of Qumana Software—“Qumana’s objective was to Keep It Simple". QumanaLE features an innovative user interface that makes it simple to post to a blog, enabling users to add pictures or content from a Word document, web page or any other application by just drag-and-drop and point-and-click. QumanaLE gives bloggers choice and control.

Tris Hussey, Qumana product manager and professional bloggerelaborates—“We have created an innovative application thatenablespeople to blog/publish anything to blogs”. QumanaLE provides asimple workflow— highlight the content, drag it to the Qumana DropPad, and publish it from the WYSIWYG editor.

QumanaLE has been beta tested by bloggers all around the world. Theirexperience and commentary has been used to create a simple, easy-to-use publishing tool that gives freedom to bloggers to do what they do best—write. "Just figured out how to use Qumana with FeedDemon that is now supercharging my blogging. Wow! Just drag and drop the post titles in the newspaper view from FeedDemon to the DropPad and your done! Fast! Love it!" — T.L. Pakii Pierce of How to Blog for Fun & Profit blogforfunandprofit.blogware.com

QumanaLE is a free application – to run, it only requires Windows 98 (and up) and an Internet connection. As Fred Fabro notes: “Qumana is the front runner of the next wave of the Internet providing easy, time-saving authoring capabilities coupled with multi-destination publishing and more feature coming soon. With Qumana, you're ready for Web 2.0”

About: Qumana Software is based in Vancouver, BC. Qumana’s mission is to make blogging easier and more profitable for bloggers everywhere. Qumana Software is complemented by Qumana Services, a consulting company specializing in helping companies communicate better using blogs and other social networking tools. For more information, please visit www.qumana.com

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