Our recent press release on University spelling mistakes has caused a bit of a stir. Along with being featured on several news websites, we were quite surprised to hear via twitter that the story had found it’s way onto Sky News in the UK. After a considerable bit of searching, our marketing expert Kerry managed to track down the clip, which we’ve embedded below. Neat!
Archive for the ‘News’ Category
spellr.us - The TV Star
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009San Francisco and Silicon Valley - Reflections
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008Australian Anthill magazine invited me to write an article about my experience at the TechCrunch50 Conference in San Francisco and my thoughts on Silicon Valley.
You can read the article here.
Kevin
new spellr.us website design
Monday, November 3rd, 2008Hi All
We thought we would give “crowdsourcing” a go - here is a copy of the new website - a draft.
We would love positive, negative, any other comments that you make.
Click on the above for a full page but comment here. 
Kevin
spellr.us Version 1.5 & Pricing Plans
Friday, October 10th, 2008Hi
Well James and the team have been hard a work making some significant improvements and refinement to spellr.us.
We will be releasing a new version in about 10 days. There have been some terrific UI changes and some amazing tweaking of the spell check engine - more on the new features on release.
We will also be releasing pricing plans in about a week.
Accounts will remain free for the time being.
Thanks for all the great feedback - keep it coming.
Kevin & the spellr.us team - Sydney Australia.
spellr.us launches in The Demo Pit - TechCrunch50 2008
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008spellr.us officially launched today at the TechCrunch50 - 2008.
TechCrunch50 is a conference put together by the highly respected technology blog TechCrunch.
The Conference has the most incredible line-up of panelists.
It has been an honour to listen to such highly experienced and capable technology start-up experts give their opinion on a range of topics.
TechCrunch selects 50 applications to present at The Conference main stage and a couple of hundred to present in the “demo pit” spread out over 3 days.
spellr.us just missed the final cut but was offered a place in the Demo Pit.
Considering over 1000 companies applied we are quite proud of being invited into the Demo Pit.
I spent the day presenting spellr.us to dozens of people - including journalists, bloggers, investors, developers, and students.
The response from some was vague and indifferent, but generally people LOVED the application.
A highlight was getting to meet Mark Cuban.
Mark Cuban is the worlds 113th richest person and a highly respected entrepreneur. He also holds the record for the largest ecommerce transaction ever - paying $40 million for his private jet when purchased over the internet.
I gave Mark a quick demo of spellr.us - he asked to scan his personal blog - he grasped it really quickly and wished us luck!
If we have 1/100 of the luck of Mark we should be fine
We also got to meet Jason Kincaid who is the author of the first (and second) TechCrunch article about spellr.us - which in many ways was what really kickstarted the mass interest in spellr.us.
We scored some blog / article mentions:
- one of the bloggers I demo’ed spellr.us to.
- ZDNet Article - congrats to Melbourne Cinergix for making the top 50!
- iTnews article
- smartcompany article
Below find some photos and videos taken on the day.
All in all the vibe at the conference has been great and I think I now have just as many American and Israeli (Israel was heavily represented at all levels of the conference) friends as Australian ones 
A real fan from CollectiveX who were one of our neighbours at the TechCrunch50. They were a friendly crew and Shaun in particular was really impressed with spellr.us, particularly when we found some great obscure errors for him.
Maybe his energy had something to do with the fact that we were feeding them Caramel Koala chocolates the whole day.
spellr.us in San Fran - Demo Pit TechCrunch50
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
spellr.us is in San Francisco
Monday, September 8th, 2008I wonder why?
They do have terrific Mexican food here after all!
Kevin
spellr.us relaunch
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Hi All
We will be relaunching a brand new version of spellr.us over the next few weeks. Until then your old beta accounts will be inaccessible. Any existing scheduled scans will be paused and reactivated with the new system launch.
When we release the new system you will be able to login using your existing details.
If you are a registered beta tester you will receive an email notification once the system is upgraded.
If you don’t have an account yet please register for a beta account - your account will be set-up after the system upgrade.
If you have any questions please email admin@spellr.us.
Thank you.
The spellr.us team.
Poking My Head Above The Trenches
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008Just a quick one as I quickly poke my head above the work trenches.
We haven’t forgotten about our beta testers and we definitely haven’t forgotten about spellr.us - Adam together with Charl have been adding in features that we KNOW will put a smile on your face.
Continue to enjoy beta access and watch this space.
Kevin in downtown Sydney.
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