Quotes
“Movable Type is designed from the ground up to be extensible by bloggers, designers, publishers and developers. We’re thrilled that LightPole has built on top of the Movable Type platform to enable sites powered by Movable Type to easily geotag and distribute their content to mobile devices.”
— Michael Sippey, VP Products for Six Apart
“Given our focus on the local real estate market, we have long thought that having a means to mobilize our content in a way that offers a truly individualized, dynamic and location-relevant experience would further entice our loyal followers. Over time, the ability of our hundreds of thousands of readers to have access to Brownstoner.com content while on-the-go will prove invaluable to building and feeding the community.”
— Jonathan Butler, founder of Brownstoner Media LLC
“PAPER Magazine has always been at the forefront of delivering content to our influencer demographic in ways that work for them. We feel that LightPole is a great partner to help provide our readers with content on their mobile devices. In a forever changing media landscape where content is king, we want to make sure our customers can get up to the moment news and information, and Light Pole gives us that ability. With PAPER’s insider content coupled with LightPole's delivery system, this is a partnership that hits our readers where they need it...on the move.”
— David Hershkovits, co-founder and editor of PAPER Magazine
“At Serious Eats, food is a topic that’s simultaneously national and local. We want to make it easy to find what's delicious near you and LightPole helps us do that.”
— Alaina Browne, general manager at Serious Eats
“Yahoo! provides a wealth of tools to developers and businesses to build on our technology and content. As such, we’re delighted that LightPole is announcing their intention to integrate the new Fire Eagle APIs and Yahoo! Local APIs into their mobile services.”
— Tom Coates, product lead for Yahoo! Brickhouse
“Platial’s more than 25 million customers love innovative ways to share and discover all kinds of places,” said. The LightPole Publishing System offers them just that: a turnkey solution to mobilize their information with a single click. It’s a simple, elegant solution for mobile content delivery that we believe in.”
— Di-Ann Eisner, CEO of Platial
“MappyHour has always been a great way to share bar recommendations and get friends together for Happy Hour. Now that the site is available through LightPole, you can find the nearest watering hold while you’re out and about, right from your mobile phone.”
— Owen Grace, founder of MappyHour.
“For those who plan ahead, the HotSpotr Website is a great information source for everyone from road warriors to the social computer hobbyist. But, if you’re somewhere you didn’t expect and need to find a hotspot fast – whether that be one of thousands of WiFi-enabled Starbucks or Panera Bread locations, LightPole now allows HotSpotrs to do so via their mobile phones so that they can stay connected no matter where their travels take them.”
— Andre Lewis, founder of HotSpotr
“We’re a regional publisher, and like many of our books, ‘Gables and Fables’ is specific to a place and a time. LightPole gives us a unique and exciting opportunity to present the wonderful information in the book in a format especially suitable for people on the spot and on the go.”
— Malcolm Margolin, publisher of Heyday Books.
“While The Bathroom Diaries is an award-winning Website on its own, we soon realized that the immediacy of the information would even better serve our users in a mobile capacity. The simplicity of the LightPole solution was able to get us there in very short order and we couldn’t be more pleased with the service we’re now able to provide our customers – no matter where they are or what they’re doing.”
— Mary Ann Racin, president of The Bathroom Diaries.
