Lingospot Software Architect Presents Python Tricks

May 3rd, 2011 by Nikos

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Los Angeles, California, May 3, 2011 – Lingospot, Inc. (www.lingospot.com), a leading provider of on-demand Algorithmic Publishing™ software, announces that its Software Architect, Steve Wedig, gave a presentation at the April 2011 Los Angeles Python User Group meeting on some of the Python tricks used at Lingospot. These are simple tricks that anyone can start using today and are prevalent across the Lingospot Python codebase.

You can find the full presentation and source code here.

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Tony Kypreos, Susan Douglas and Alex Bangash join Lingospot Advisory Board

March 1st, 2011 by Nikos

Los Angeles, California, March 1, 2011 – Lingospot, Inc. (www.lingospot.com), a leading provider of on-demand Algorithmic Publishing™ software, announced today that Tony Kypreos, Susan Douglas and Alex Bangash have joined the company’s advisory board.

These three new appointments give the leading media software publisher unrivalled business and financial clout together with real hands-on digital publishing experience.

Tony Kypreos brings a broad range of business expertise to Lingospot. Tony is a board advisor and investor in a portfolio of ventures in mobile marketing, online publishing and nanotechnology.   In addition to being an entrepreneur, Tony has twenty years of leadership experience in global corporations:  in operational, turnaround and venturing roles. Previously he was Group Managing Director of Bauer Digital for the M&A integration of EMAP Plc., on the operational board of T-Mobile International as Group EVP Business Development & Innovation, and served on the advisory board for Deutsche Telekom’s VC arm, T-Ventures.  In 2000 he was on the leadership team for the NASDAQ IPO of Agency.com.  In addition to TMT, he has nine years consumer brand experience at Nestle SA and Diageo Plc. In 2009, in recognition of his achievements in industry, he was invited to join the UK Government’s Global Entrepreneur Programme, focusing on high potential technology ventures.   Tony holds a BSc (Hon) in Physics & Electronic Systems, Brunel University and an MBA from Henley Business School.

Alex Bangash brings to Lingospot deep financial expertise as founder of Rumson and Trusted Insight. Rumson is an advisor to institutional investors focused on venture capital and emerging markets. Since 2003, Rumson has helped clients invest over $1.0 billion in more than 50 funds, including leading VC funds backing the marque companies of the last decade.  Trusted Insight is an Institutional Investor marketplace. Prior to Rumson, Alex also held senior positions at Bell Labs, AT&T, General Electric, Lucent in Optical and Wireless Networking and Supply Chain.  Alex holds an MBA from The Wharton School, an MENG in Operations Research and a BA in Computer Sciences, English Literature, and Economics, both from Cornell University.

Susan Douglas brings to Lingospot seasoned expertise and an extensive background in the publishing industry, including:  editing national newspapers, repositioning major local groups, launching on-line sites, newsstand magazines, the contract magazine market and most recently, book publishing. Susan worked as newspaper executive on several national titles, among them:  Assistant Editor at the Daily Mail (1988-1991), Deputy Editor at the Sunday Times (1991-1995), and one of the most senior roles held by a woman, Editor of the Sunday Express (1995-1996). She was later a director of Scotsman Newspapers , President of New Business at Conde Nast Publications Ltd. (2001-2007) and New Business director of literary agency Peters, Fraser, Dunlop before starting her consultancy business, Kontent, in 2009 offering editorial content, stories, movies, digital content, book ideas and IP to brands. Consultancy clients include Harper Collins, Luxe TV, Diageo, Ideal Shopping TV, Future Publishing, and Barefoot books.

“I am delighted to welcome Tony, Alex and Sue to the Lingospot Advisory Board, all three of whom have made significant contributions to Lingospot already,” said Nikos Iatropoulos, Lingospot’s CEO, “and I look forward to continuing to draw on their expertise and relationships as we move forward with our plans to build a world class software company.”

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Lingospot Launches Online Help

February 1st, 2011 by Nikos

Los Angeles, California, February 1, 2011 – Lingospot, Inc. (www.lingospot.com), a leading provider of on-demand Algorithmic Publishing™ software, announces the arrival of its live, up-to-the minute help feature as part of the Lingospot software console.

There is a “Help” menu item between “My Settings” and “Request a Feature”. Clicking on this link opens a new window that allows users to browse a help topic that shows how to perform the task at hand.

This feature was a long time in the making, as Lingospot first tested several other ways to provide a help manual, from periodically updating PDF manuals, to a number of third party Wiki providers and help file creators. Ultimately, Lingospot developed this as part of the console; thus the information is always up-to-date and easily accessible.

The new help feature aims to make working with the Lingospot console easier. Lingospot welcomes user feedback.

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Lingospot Announces its 2011 Annual Charity Contribution

December 9th, 2010 by Nikos

Los Angeles, California, December 9, 2010 – Lingospot, Inc. (www.lingospot.com), a leading provider of on-demand Algorithmic Publishing™ software, continues a tradition they began two years ago. For 2011 Lingospot is making a $2,000 charity contribution, in lieu of sending out holiday cards and gifts to its customers and partners. The charities chosen by the Lingospot team for this year’s contributions are:

This is a fantastic organization that is spreading the word about bone marrow transplants. Unlike other donated organs, bone marrow, much like blood, can be replenished by our bodies. For certain types of leukemia, a bone marrow transplant is the only way to save a patient. Within everyone is the power to heal and the first step is to join the Be The Match marrow registry. Lingospot encourages everyone to join the registry.  It’s extremely easy to do (mail in cheek swabs taken at home) and it might lead to a unique opportunity to save a human life.

This charity’s mission is to enable all young people, especially those who need it the most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. From feeding and nutrition programs that help keep kids healthy to educational initiatives that enhance their performance in school to character-building efforts that instill the importance of community service, Boys & Girls Clubs continued their mission of preparing the next generation for success.

Lingospot would like to take this opportunity to thank its customers, partners and shareholders for their support in 2010 and wish everyone a healthy, happy and successful 2011.

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Lingospot Uses its Technology to Support National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October 13th, 2010 by Nikos

Los Angeles, California, October 13, 2010 – Lingospot, Inc. (www.lingospot.com), a leading provider of on-demand Algorithmic Publishing™ software, is proud to use its technology to help support of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Nurse.com breast cancer page

Several Lingospot customers set up topic pages and sections providing information on breast cancer prevention and diagnosis. A notable example is the breast cancer page of Nurse.com. The site is targeted to nurses and includes links to educational models, webinars, news, opinions and videos about breast cancer.

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Lingospot Welcomes Two New Team Members

June 16th, 2010 by Nikos

Los Angeles, California, June 16, 2010 – Lingospot, Inc. (www.lingospot.com), a leading provider of on-demand Algorithmic Publishing™ software, welcomes two new members of the Lingospot team who started with us last week: Jose daVeiga and Shawn Grant.

Jose joins Lingospot as SVP of Sales & Business Development. He is a successful entrepreneur with a solid understanding of both online software and online advertising. Before Lingospot, he was the founder and CEO of klickSports, which he spent four years building from the ground up.

Shawn joins Lingospot as a Sr. Software Engineer and has solid experience in the main platforms and programming languages that are used at Lingospot. He has over a decade of software development experience and most recently was a Sr. Engineer at Mahalo, a human powered search engine startup in Santa Monica.

Lingospot is proud to welcome Jose and Shawn to the team.

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Gannett’s ContentOne Explained (video)

June 16th, 2010 by Nikos

Los Angeles, California, June 16, 2010 – Lingospot, Inc. (www.lingospot.com), a leading provider of on-demand Algorithmic Publishing™ software, has worked with Gannett’s ContentOne for nearly a year. This video explains the rationale behind the creation of ContentOne and how it fits within Gannett.

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Lingospot’s 2010 Charity Contribution

January 23rd, 2010 by Nikos

Los Angeles, California, January 23, 2010 – Lingospot, Inc. (www.lingospot.com), a leading provider of on-demand Algorithmic Publishing™ software , made a 2010 donation of $1,000, following a tradition they began last year, in lieu of sending holiday cards.
In 2009, the Lingospot founders both became first-time fathers, welcoming a healthy daughter and son into this world just a few months apart.  Juniper Chao and Theo Iatropoulos are lucky to be healthy and well cared for, but other children are not as fortunate.

Hence, this year, Lingospot is supporting St. Jude Children’s Research hospital, whose mission is to help children who have been diagnosed with a variety of cancers and to admit all children, regardless of insurance coverage.

Lingospot would like to thank everyone for their support and for enabling them to give back a little bit to those with need.

Lingospot wishes everyone a wonderful and, above all, healthy 2010!

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USA Today Tracks the Swine Flu with Lingospot

October 6th, 2009 by Nikos

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Los Angeles, California, October 6, 2009 – Lingospot, Inc. (www.lingospot.com), a leading provider of on-demand Algorithmic Publishing™ software, helps USA Today track the Swine Flu. Online visitors of USAToday.com can now get the latest news and information about the Swine Flu as well as track incidents across the United States. Using the Lingospot Topic Portals technology, USA Today is aggregating articles, blog posts, videos, photos, and tweets, in real-time, providing a central dashboard with the latest information and news on the Swine Flu epidemic. The Swine Flu page has links to resources, such as articles from the CDC and links to the government site Flu.gov, as well as a handy widget for visitors to find out where to get vaccinated.

The USA Today Swine Flu topic page is the latest in series of implementations of the Lingospot technology across the Gannett newspaper properties.

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Government Executive Introduces Live Web Channels for Federal Agencies

September 9th, 2009 by Nikos

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Los Angeles, California, September 9, 2009 – Lingospot, Inc. (www.lingospot.com), a leading provider of on-demand Algorithmic Publishing™ software, announces that Government Executive, the premier media resource for federal decision makers, has launched News by Agency, a suite of over 40 web channels customized for individual federal agencies.

Powered by Lingospot’s topic portals technology, the channels provide federal executives with a dashboard where they can monitor a broad range of real-time news and information about their agency, including articles from Government Executive and its sister publications, news form external sources, such as the New York Times and CNN, videos, tweets, quotes and other content. “This tool provides federal executives with a window into how the public views and perceives their agency – important information for gauging progress in meeting their mission,” commented Matt Dunie, president of Government Executive Media Group.

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