March 4th, 2010 by Amit
Beyond fine tuning our corporation with Israel’s largest start page for kids, we’re starting a due diligence process with a possible first investor in this funding round.
The new Vikido player should be ready in a fortnight.
It will offer easy customization of skins and direct access to our player via API.
We’ve also started Vikido’s Facebook Page, and we’d love to have you join us there.
Recent Kids & Parenting Links:
Online Computer Safety – a parents how-to from the 5min blog, including tips by @EllenMeister - Overseeing Online Activities.
Sesame Street has 6 apps made for iPhone/iPod Touch, they are tons of fun, just follow Elmo…
Can kids create their own TV shows? qubo say they can.
@Kidzmodo is an Italian blog covering tech innovation for kids (English version).
For more updates, follow @VikidoTeam & Vikido Photostream
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February 9th, 2010 by Amit
We’ve been busy adding mobile capabilities, presenting Vikido to investors, gathering user feedback, and continued work on the upcoming English beta.
If you’d like to join our beta group, please register for an invite: http://www.vikido.com/beta/beta.php
In spite of power-point, code crunching, bug fixing and gallery building, it was impossible to avoid the iPad, and thoughts of how toddlers would adopt it.
Interesting Kids & Parenting stuff we followed this week:
A New School Teaches Students Through Videogames by Susannah F. Locke for Popular Science
Generation Internet: That’s Anyone Under 30, Not Just Teens by Liz Gannes for @GigaOm
GadgetHER.com – Girl Power Central!
Is Apple tablet for the weak? how about this?
Last but not least, we recommend following @BabyFirstTV a TV channel made just for babies, toddlers and parents.
For more updates, follow @VikidoTeam & Vikido Photostream
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August 1st, 2009 by Yami
Finally, we started testing our UI on parents & kids and it’s been an eye opener on so many levels!
To begin with, we found out how important is the mobile integration on the parents’ side. If you get a message from your child you want to watch it now - on your mobile phone. Surprisingly enough, sending a video link via sms proved to be easier and more effective than we thought and we are already working on allowing the parent to send back a message, using their phone, via a video call. “Easier” does not mean effortless and we are battling to get a good world-wide sms cover, stabilize the video output so it supports the majority of mobile phones, and to improve the video quality.
The UI itself works well for kids. In fact, the younger the kids are, the faster they get it! Parents on the other hand seem to need their own UI - which will be ready for testing in two weeks.
Many tweaks are necessary for the UI to be accommodating and intuitive. We hope we got the majority of them on our to-do list but it will still take some time before we’re happy with our offering.
Here is an alpha tester at work:
A frustrated Vikido UI tester 
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