We understand our strengths lie in technology and business development not content creation.  We have a few content partners for our nugougo app and we are continually looking for more.   In addition, we are working with groups to pull in beta testers for our app.  It is apparent that newspapers are laying off more and more writers as they struggle to find a revenue model that works.  There are some great blogs out there, but it takes a lot of time to sift through all of them to find what is good and what is great.  In addition, even when the blog is great, searching for content in the blog is not a simple task.  Hopefully our app will solve some of those problems.  I have talked to a few mothers and most of them try to get ideas and plans from forums as well as mothers’ groups.  Luckily we are working on those groups as well.

Importing and converting the content from our partners is a bit time consuming currently but that will be fixed in later revisions.  Until then, we’ll crank them out.

We just received our first iPad. The functionality is great but the backlighting seems a little high and is a little difficult to watch for extended periods of time, more so than a laptop screen for some reason. Despite that fact, we have been testing nugougo on it and it looks better on the iPad than it does on a laptop screen. The 3rd revision of nugougo should be completed by this week. It just keeps getting better and better.

In other news, the vanity.com deal fell through. We could not come to agreement on compensation. We are looking for other methods of bringing in revenue while we develop nugougo. Every day has its little victories and challenges.

In addition to the development of nugougo.com, we are considering a development partnership with www.vanity.com to create a luxury goods and services portal.  It looks like a great opportunity for some quick cash flow.  We will have things figured out by next week.

nugougo is coming along.  We’re ahead of schedule on the development side and a demo is not too far away.  Now to bring in some content to the site..

The nugougo blog is up and running.  Starting always seems like the longest part.  Reminds me of the parable about the young bull and old bull.  We’re definitely much older than the last time we started a company.  Preparation is the key to avoiding a lot of pain down the road and now it seems as if the preparations are coming together.