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Birth Announcement

We launch today version 1.0 of our new mobile web app. We're hoping to build a community of users that find Bridger a mind blowing new way to explore documents and web pages.

If you are a student, a knowledge worker or anyone who wants to get to the nitty gritty quickly in documents, articles etc., Bridger will change forever the way you look at documents.

• It summarizes.
• Shows you who's who and what's what in Word, txt, PDF documents or webpages, in a few moments.
• It works on your iPhone, galaxy, iPad, android tablet - anywhere you have a connection to the net. 
• Its easy to use, even my least techie friends have said that.

Just go to our website http://www.sixdegreesofdata.com from your mobile device. The application is free.

If you enjoy using it, tell your friends!

Preparing For Commercial Launch

Following lean principles, we are quickly drawing to a close our beta testing period. At Six Degrees Of Data we're all hoping that the world is ready for a radical new way to use documents and web pages.

At least we won't die not knowing.

A big thank you to all our testers who identified a number of bugs and suggested a number of future features. Your help has been invaluable and as promised we have listened to you.

Bridger version 1.0 is coming later this week with the following requested enhancements:

• Summary texts and the full text original documents now include color-coded hyperlinks to all bridges. The links are to dynamically created profiles. This feature can also be switched on and off as you wish from within the screen.
• Help is now available within most Bridger screens. These include short instructional videos and step-by-step instructions to guide new users.
• We now have a YouTube Channel with a dozen or more videos to help you get the most out of Bridger. More videos are appearing each week.
• Easier navigation through further gesture support. Swipe left and right to move back and forward through most Bridger screens - or use the browser buttons. Your choice.

Finally, and best of all, we have decided to keep Bridger 1.0 completely free for all users. So point your smartphone and tablet browser to www.sixdegreesofdata.com and see how Bridger can transform your documents. It's free to use and there is nothing to install.

So it has been a busy couple of weeks.

Until we release 1.0, there are new videos to check out. Of course, as you use Bridger in the coming days you will see the features mentioned above being introduced. Try them out for yourself and, as always, all feedback is welcome.

Bridger Enhanced Text

One of the neat features of our new Bridger product is the way the text of your original document is enhanced with color-coded links to further information.

As one of our testers recently said, "It's like you turn documents into Wikipedia articles!" - and that's true. But the story doesn't end there as the links are to dynamically created profiles. These profiles are unique to the context of your document. These profiles contain:

• A short text summary created from information outside of the document
• A picture fetched from the web
• In-context occurrences identified from within your document
• Links to places with relevant further information.

Here's a short video that shows you how Bridger enhanced texts and profiles work:

You can also check out our other videos on YouTube and Bridger is now in Public Beta so you can try it out for yourself. It's free to use and there is nothing to install.