DailySplice wants to be the primary hub for podcasts on the net

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DailySplice opens unique podcast directory with features not found anywhere else

Victoria BC, January 30, 2008 -DailySplice made its first public move today in its mission to change the way people create and consume media online. The company has opened up a section of its website to the public which has unique features that are designed to make podcasts, a nascent form of online media, more accessible and manageable to users.

DailySplice believes that the key to bringing podcasting to the mainstream is to introduce structure and predictability similar to traditional media formats such as radio. To do this, they believe the first step is to understand the publishing habits of podcasters. That’s why in the DailySplice directory, a user is actually able to see the publishing schedule of any podcast.

“Podcasters aren’t bound by set publishing schedules, they can publish new episodes whenever they want.” says Lewis Sobotkiewicz, the company’s CTO. “DailySplice directory analyzes a podcaster’s publishing habits and predicts when new episodes will be produced. This will help structure and normalize podcast consumption.”

While the world explores the DailySplice podcast directory, a few users are building “Splices”, personalized radio programs out of their favourite podcasts. Publishing habits become important for these users, and DailySplice intends that by highlighting publishing information, standard habits will start to emerge that will help shape the industry into something that can rival traditional radio. The Company has already been contacted by members of the community, such as the Saanich Police who are interested in ways this might work their communication initiatives.

DailySplice’s mission is to modernize radio by creating customized radio-style programs that are delivered daily to your computer in an iPod or mobile phone ready format. You can quickly find personalized content from a library of thousands of podcasts and then build a program template, or “Splice,” that you can listen to on demand as a part of your personal routine. The service is in an invite-only test phase, but its directory and search engine features are open to all users at dailysplice.com

For more information visit company.dailysplice.com or contact Rian Bowden at rian@dailysplice.com or call +1250.885.5303.

Victoria BC, January 28, 2008 -Two weeks after hiring its first two employees, DailySplice has begun a four month research and development project with the National Research Council Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP), a federal government program that provides a range of both technical and business oriented advisory services along with potential financial support to growth-oriented Canadian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Working directly with these clients, NRC-IRAP supports innovative research and development and commercialization of new products and services. DailySplice will apply the support to the research and development of innovative technologies.

The company has been working closely with NRC-IRAP since first meeting their ITA, Martyn Ward, at a business plan competition. “NRC-IRAP has been helping us out a lot for the past four months with all kinds of things from good industry contacts to preliminary patent searches.” says Rian Bowden, the company’s CEO. “I’ve got nothing but great things to say about our experience with NRC-IRAP. This is an example of a government organization that has a wealth of great resources and know-how that can really help innovative Canadian business grow. We’re really excited to be officially involved in an NRC-IRAP funded project.”

DailySplice Technologies Inc. is a student started tech company that is building a web application which will allow users to customize their own daily radio program. The company uses podcasts to draw content on a wide variety of topics so that users can piece together a show that is perfect for their daily media needs. Visit http://company.dailysplice.com for more information about the company.

For more information contact Rian Bowden at rian@dailysplice.com or call +1.250.885.5303

[DailySplice] is looking to replace the drudgery of AM radio on the morning commute with a customized selection of the best podcasts on the internet.

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Growing Victoria Tech Company adds some ’splice’ to its brand

Victoria BC, January 17, 2008 - Four months after the company officially launched, mPulse announced it is “splicing” up its brand with a brand new name and logo. The startup company intends on making their new brand, DailySplice, a household name by the end of the decade. DailySplice is a product under development that will make it possible for the average Internet user to easily set up their own, customized daily radio program by splicing together short topical audio shows called podcasts from around the net.

“Choosing the right name is as difficult a task as it is important.” say CEO Rian Bowden. The company looked into hundreds of possibilities before arriving on DailySplice. The founders are all very happy with the new name and are excited to start using it to promote the new version of their website, expected out in weeks.

“We’ve had a lot of success with mPulse, and we’ve got a really good feeling about the future of DailySplice.” says Bowden. DailySplice has begun looking for angel financing to help fund further development and marketing. “The technology is shaping up very well, so from here on in we’re going to have to start focusing a lot more on marketing, which can be expensive.” Bowden has a background in online marketing and plans to hire a team on Web 2.0 experts to implement what he refers to as a very modern marketing strategy.

DailySplice Technologies Inc. is a student started tech company that is building a web application which will allow users to customize their own daily radio programs. The company uses podcasts to draw content on a wide variety of topics so that users can piece together a show that is perfect for their daily media needs. Visit http://company.dailysplice.com for more information about the company.

For more information contact Rian Bowden at rian@dailysplice.com or call +1.250.885.5303

Student Company Wins Three Awards in Four Months at Business Competitions

Victoria BC, January 17, 2008 -Victoria’s DailySplice competed with the top student startups in BC and Alberta on Saturday winning $2000 in cash prizes and moving to the national finals for Enterprize 2008. This is the third award for the 4 month old company, which now has collected $17,500 in total prizes. The company will be returning to Vancouver next week to compete for the top prize of $20,000.

The two founders, Rian Bowden and Lewis Sobotkiewicz have fine tuned their presenting skills over the past four months. “We’re on about our 20th iteration of our business pitch, and each time we change it we practice for at least a few hours.” says Bowden. This is the fourth time the company has formally presented their full business plan.

But there’s much more to DailySplice than a finely-tuned business plan. In the past four months the company has managed to produce a working and testable version of their software, secured over $30,000 in financing, set up offices with full two full time employees, and established themselves in the local tech community as a serious up-and-coming web company worth watching carefully. “These competitions are fun and we get to meet a lot of people, but I think the reason we are winning is because we’ve been executing on the plan since the day we wrote the first draft.” says Sobotkiewicz, the company’s CTO.

DailySplice Technologies Inc. is a student started tech company that is building a web application which will allow users to customize their own daily radio program. The company uses podcasts to draw content on a wide variety of topics so that users can piece together a show that is perfect for their daily media needs. Visit company.dailysplice.com for more information about the company.

For more information contact Rian Bowden at rian@dailysplice.com or call +1.250.885.5303

Victoria Web Entrepreneurs go to regional finals for Enterprize 2008 in Vancouver

Victoria BC, January 10, 2008 - After winning Gold and taking home $15,000 in a local business plan competition, mPulse is now on its way to the regional finals for Enterprize, Canada’s biggest business plan competition. The startup web company began as a student project in the UVic Business program, and has since moved from academia to the real world but continues to make waves in the business plan competition arena. Moving into the semi finals in Enterprize means the tech company submitted one of the top 10 business plans in BC and Alberta.

mPulse co-founders Lewis Sobotkiewicz and Rian Bowden will be attending the two day event at SFU on January 18th and 19th, where they will participate in workshops, attend keynote speeches, and present their business pitch to a panel of judges. If mPulse advances, they will present at the national level on January 31.

“Advancing in these competitions is great regardless of whether we win or lose because we get to make a lot of connections and get noticed by people who help us along the way” says Bowden. The company is currently actively seeking Angel financing.

The company is also hosting the mPulse Innovation and Design competition to be held at UVic on March 17, 2007. The competition offers $2000 in prizes to computer science students who come up with the best solutions to their challenge, which can be found at challenge.mpulse.ca

mPulse is a web company that is building innovative solutions to help bring podcasting to the mainstream. It started in the summer of 2007 as a student project. After winning the IDC business plan competition, the company was subsequently incorporated. Visit company.mpulse.ca

For more information contact Rian Bowden at rian@mpulse.ca or call +1.250.885.5303

New Web Company Steps Up Development for 2008 with New Office and Employees

Victoria BC, January 7, 2008 - Victoria-based Internet media company, mPulse, kicked off the new year with a brand new office and two new employees. The company moved out of its make-shift office into the Innovation and Development Corporation’s building on January 7. On that day, the company’s founders, Rian Bowden and Lewis Sobotkiewicz were joined by newly hired software developers Tom Yang and Debbie Yu.

Development is taking off, and we’re looking forward to revealing our spiffy new site to the public,” says Sobotkiewicz, mPulse CTO. Fresh off a trip to San Francisco, Sobotkiewicz made his way directly from Victoria Airport to the mPulse office on the 7th where he worked setting up equipment into the wee hours of the morning.

Tom Yang is a recent computer science graduate and founder of domainpagerank.com and victoriaBBS.com. Debbie Yu has taken bachelor’s degrees in both business and computer science.

With Debbie and Tom on board, the company plans to open up a section of the website to the public by the end of the month, on track to release a full beta by March 2008.

mPulse is a web company that is building innovative solutions to help bring podcasting to the mainstream. It started in the summer of 2007 as a student project. After winning the IDC business plan competition, the company was subsequently incorporated. Visit company.mpulse.ca

For more information contact Rian Bowden at rian@mpulse.ca or call +1.250.885.5303