Books iRead matures
Books iRead - the facebook application, that we have been working on, is now a lot more.
The application is now available on most popular social networks - Orkut , Myspace, Hi5 & Bebo.
Most of these networks are yet to start promoting applications and exposing them to their users. Orkut recently made it available to all their India users & we are seeing quite a bit of traction from Orkut.
Besides distribution within social networks, which set it apart from other book community destination sites, iRead has grown a lot.
From a simplistic initial feature-set, which allowed users to search and add books, rate and review them and see their friends books, iRead has come a long way.
Some of the powerful features that we are proud:
- Recommendations - Real-time recommendations, based on books you have added & rated.
- Read Now - Allows users to read a lot of books online(~16k), and the set includes popular books like Alchemist, and Pride and prejudice
- Book clubs - a place for like minded people to get together, discuss books and anything else.
- Author's corner - a way for authors to connect with their readers and for the readers to get a closer look at their favourite authors.
This one is for the geeks - all the applications on the different networks work off the same code base. May not seem like a big deal to a lot of people, but as an engineer I am proud of this.
Been through a lot of tough times, and the ride has been a lot of fun. The learnings, from people to product, to business to technology .... have been tremendous.
Hope the ride continues... and iRead becomes the biggest & most used book community.
The application is now available on most popular social networks - Orkut , Myspace, Hi5 & Bebo.
Most of these networks are yet to start promoting applications and exposing them to their users. Orkut recently made it available to all their India users & we are seeing quite a bit of traction from Orkut.
Besides distribution within social networks, which set it apart from other book community destination sites, iRead has grown a lot.
From a simplistic initial feature-set, which allowed users to search and add books, rate and review them and see their friends books, iRead has come a long way.
Some of the powerful features that we are proud:
- Recommendations - Real-time recommendations, based on books you have added & rated.
- Read Now - Allows users to read a lot of books online(~16k), and the set includes popular books like Alchemist, and Pride and prejudice
- Book clubs - a place for like minded people to get together, discuss books and anything else.
- Author's corner - a way for authors to connect with their readers and for the readers to get a closer look at their favourite authors.
This one is for the geeks - all the applications on the different networks work off the same code base. May not seem like a big deal to a lot of people, but as an engineer I am proud of this.
Been through a lot of tough times, and the ride has been a lot of fun. The learnings, from people to product, to business to technology .... have been tremendous.
Hope the ride continues... and iRead becomes the biggest & most used book community.