I've been a part of Qumana for a little over a year now.  Since I started a lot has changed with the application.  I don't think you'd recognize the application then with what we have now.  We started off think with what we thought blogging and a blog editor was about.  We tried to capture and store more content.  The application was powerful, too powerful.  It didn't function in the flow, sometimes it was like a boulder in the way.  That didn't stop me from making a lot of use of it.  The original QumanaPro was what let me get into professional blogging, and when a little issue with a Windows patch killed it for a while, I wasn't half as efficient as I was before.  The other main difference was that QPro was commercial.  I still think it was worth the price we were charging, but we needed to make some changes.

 

What is now Qumana (we had been calling it QumanaLE), came about in a conversation with the team—"What if we made a prototype with just the DropPad and the editor ..."—and in a few weeks QumanaLE (the Qumana you now know) was born and we haven't looked back.

 

Since our launch on June 13 we've had nearly 5000 downloads of the application (not including our "beta" last month), and we're really pleased and excited with the reception Qumana has had on the Blogosphere.  But, but we can do better.  We want to be better.  We're actively reading and evaluating all comments and feedback we receive.

 

So on this Labour Day weekend, I hope all of you have a chance to relax and enjoy the fruits of your labour.  All of us at Qumana are happy you've been pleased with ours.

 

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