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Livescribe Founder and CEO Visiting Australia

Mark Parker — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:06:16 +0000

I’m very pleased to advise that Livescribe founder and CEO Jim Marggraff will be visiting Australia next week.

The Livescribe team has kindly organised a social event with Jim on Monday night the 17th February.

Details of the event are here

This is a great opportunity to meet Jim and some of the team – including the Smartpen team.

I hope to see you there.

Tagged: Jim Marggraff, livescribe, Livescribe 4GB, Livescribe Pulse Smartpen, smartpen

Exciting news for local Livescribe developers

Mark Parker — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:59:30 +0000

I’m pleased to advise that Livescribe has announced the pre-release of their software development kit (SDK) – and in unexpected news the new SDK is MAC compatible

To access the SDK you need to register via the Livescribe site. Use this link to find out more.

Here’s some of the information that was released yesterday at the Java conference:

Livescribe’s SDK includes Paper Designer for Eclipse, providing software developers with all the tools, technical documentation, sample code and support needed to create, publish, share and sell sophisticated applications for the Pulse smartpen. The pre-release Platform SDK also includes the Penlet SDK, which contains an Eclipse plug-in for penlet development as well as a suite of APIs, sample code, documentation, debug tools and command line build utilities.

Livescribe CEO has been quoted as follows:

“The release of the SDK 1.0 is a significant step forward for Livescribe’s mobile computing platform,” said Jim Marggraff, Livescribe founder and chief executive officer. “We’re anxious to see what our more than 4,000 software developers already actively participating in our developer program will create to expand the functionality, purpose and value of the Pulse smartpen for consumers.”

This is good news for our local developer community. We’ve had ongoing contact with many developers who have been eagerly awaiting this release. Given that innovation is in our genes I’m sure it won’t be long before Australian applications are available via the Livescribe Application Store.

If you have any feedback or wish to share your thoughts please use the comments or let me know if you have a longer piece. We’d be happy to publish it via a guest author spot on the blog.

Tagged: Jim Marggraff, livescribe, livescribe application store, Livescribe Pulse, Livescribe Pulse Smartpen, Livescribe Smartpen, smart pen, smartpen

Livescribe Smartpen given review in The West Australian

Mark Parker — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:04:55 +0000

Google Alerts bought the following article to my attention this morning.

Livescribe Smartpen, latest in pen evolution

Tagged: Iogear Mobile Digital Scribe, Jim Marggraff, Leapfrog FLY, Livescribe Pulse, Livescribe Pulse Smartpen, Livescribe Smartpen, Pulse, The West

Livescribe Pulse Smartpen – the awards keep coming

Mark Parker — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:36:08 +0000

You might recall our post last month where we mentioned the exciting news of Livescribe being recognised by Popular Mechanics as one of this years 10 most brilliant gadgets.

Further recognition was announced over the weekend. Ubergizmo has announced that Livescribe Pulse Smartpen has been selected in its annual Uber10 awards. The awards focus on gadgets priced under $400 and deliver most bang for your buck.

Livescribe was included in a stellar list of the world’s leading gadget companies including: This year products from Apple, BlackBerry, HP, Lenovo, Nikon, Nintendo, SanDisk, and Sony

Ubergizmo is one of the fastest growing gadget blogs on the planet. The recognition of Livescribe is a credit to Jim Marggraff and his team

Tagged: Apple, BlackBerry, HP, Jim Marggraff, Lenovo, livescribe, Livescribe Smartpen, Mark Parker, Nikon, Pulse Smartpen, SanDisk, smartpen, Sony, Ubergizmo