We had a very exciting week in LA at ISUOG, we met many people who are exited about what Ultrasound Manager can do for them.
We have been recruiting for our early adopters programme and have spoken to several people who are very interested in becoming involved and helping shape the future of the product set. We are now fleshing out what the programme will entail and talking to interested parties about getting them involved. We plan to have more sites up and running before Christmas to give final feedback before the comercial release of the product.
We now have our stand setup for the ISUOG world congress in LA.
We are here to promote our new product, ultrasound manager.
Ultrasound Manager provides secure sharing and archiving of ultrasound video and images in the cloud. Pregnancy ultrasound patients can use our portal ibabyscan to access video of their scan online and share the scan with friends and family via social media platforms.
At ISUOG we will be demonstrating the product to clinicians to hopefully get people as excited about the product as we are.
We will shortly be setting up an Early Adopters Program for our initial customers, as part of this program we will be asking for detailed feedback to improve the usability of the product. If you are interested in becoming part of making Ultrasound Manager great, please get in touch.
Ultrasound Manager our new product will be exhibiting at ISUOG 2011
Ultrasound Manager is a completely new way to store and share Obstetric and Gyneacological scans. We have a great product and can’t wait to show it off in Los Angeles in September.
We just want to let you know that we have started a new exciting project where we are going to depart from our current business activities a little and move into a hardware product.
We have been looking for a new challenge for some time and have finally whittled down the ideas to a hardware product for apple computer. We don’t want to reveal much more right now as it is early stages, but keep an eye on our blog for more news!
We are pleased to have entered into a partnership with Dear Scotland dearscotland.com a website for expat Scots. We are offering a free trial of our expat surfer product to users of the website.
The new cronTV website is live, giving lots of information about our cronTV venture. cronTV is a suite of products giving businesses and consumers new and exciting products related to TV.
Some key features of cronTV
To understand more visit the cronTV website at www.crontv.com
Our VPN product for people living outside the UK is going well and we would like to get the message to as many people as possible and we would like your help to do this – in return we will give you free access to Expat Surfer.
Blog post: All you need to do is write a blog post of at least 200 words telling people about expat surfer with a link to the website. Your blog must be pre-existing and active.
Website link: All you need to do is put a link on your web site back to www.expatsurfer.co.uk. Your website must be active and have a reasonable number of visitors.
Today we’ve launched our new product, expat surfer. It’s been in testing for a while and I think we’ve ironed out all the little creases so it’s ready to be released to the world!
Basically expat surfer is a service that allows you to connect remotely to our servers in the UK from wherever you are in the world. This sets up a secure virtual tunnel between your computer and our server. Then all of your internet traffic gets sent down this virtual tunnel, and it appears as if the source of this traffic is our server in the UK. Which it is, only you’re controlling the server from Barbados or Cape Town, or wherever you happen to be.
We use a technology called PPTP, which means that all the data you send down the secure tunnel is encrypted.
An excellent benefit of using expat surfer is protection from hackers on wifi hotspots. If you’re using a public wifi network normally you are at a high risk from hackers, as anyone can easily see all our your browsing, passwords, credit card details, anything you enter online. By using expat surfer you practically eliminate this risk, as it’s normally only governments who can beat this encryption.
We came up with the idea because we’ve been using it ourselves for the last year or so, every time we go abroad. It just makes surfing away from home so much easier and safer.
So we asked our friends and family if they’d like to use the service, too. They said, “Yes please! Can our friends use it too?! ” And so a business idea was born…
For more info please check out the website www.expatsurfer.co.uk
Well the new product, expat surfer is nearly ready, just time for a little user testing of the test site.
It’s quite a complex service to explain and we’re trying to market it to all types of web users, from the really tech savvy who know what a VPN is, and how to use one and set it up but just doesn’t have the time to do so to a beginner web user, who doesn’t even know they need the service.
I decided to carry out some user testing on the least tech savvy volunteers I could find, as we want this service to be accessible to all.
And it came up with some interesting results. Comments were heard like “to go to a webpage I just punch the name into google” and what if you know the web address like www.bbc.co.uk? “well then I just punch that into google.” I knew I’d picked the right testers! (Also, this does show the power of google)
Basically I asked for 45 minutes from each tester and asked them some questions about the website, and asked them to do some important tasks.
One of the questions was “what’s clickable on this page”
This came up with some interesting answers, such as “well, anything underlined, or in big writing” and “if I’m not sure I just move my mouse around very slowly and it changes.”
One of the tasks was to create an account and pay with a test paypal account – this bit worked very well.
Overall I was quite pleased with the results, the design of the static site needs a little tweaking to make the links stand out a bit more. But I think the overall feel of the site works well for this audience who tend to favour simple layouts and intuitive menus.