Released on: January 12, 2008, 8:34 am

Press Release Author: Spivo.com

Industry: Education

Press Release Summary: SpivO launched the SpivO News channel which has been
completely rebuilt offering faster news functions and interactive media.

Press Release Body: When SpivO went online as a search engine in 2004, SpivO offered
three easy to use channels. Those channels included a web search engine, a
directory, and SpivO News. The news channel on SpivO has changed four times since
then, always improving, and always providing more content. Engineers at SpivO now
believe, they have a winner.

SpivO technical engineer, Jack Thomas explains, "News is all about text based
content. In the last version of SpivO News, we used an RSS input function that
allowed us to bring in images and news releases from thousands of internet sources.
However, the more we talked to our core users, the more we learned."

SpivO's participating users expressed an interest in simplicity. Most users believed
that news should be about simple content whereas only a small percentage were
interested in images, slideshows, and news videos. SpivO's programmers compromised
by doing both,

The new SpivO News has a completely text based news system which can be browsed or
searched through. Millions of stories are accessible on SpivO News throughout the
day and an interactive news feed is also available for headlines and video stories.
The Flash based interactive news feature is a small part of SpivO News, as engineers
and planning committees wanted to promote the "simplicity" ideals of SpivO which is
clearly reflected in SpivO News.

Jack Thomas continues "With the redevelopment of SpivO, we can not express enough
the mission of simplicity. In the past, we've tried complicating things, we have
built channels with many fancy features, but at the end of the day, SpivO is all
about the end user. The one thing that will set us apart from other online resources
is our ability to serve a lot of information with simplicity, ease of use, and a
clean style. The news channel does all of that very efficiently."

SpivO plans on adding new news resources as time goes on and extending an invitation
for news sources to submit RSS feeds. In the near future, they will launch a SpivO
News 2008 Presidential Election news channel to cover the campaigns.

To learn more, visit http://www.spivo.com/news.


Web Site: http://www.spivo.com/news

Contact Details: SpivO
9280 Bay Plaza Blvd Suite 706
Tampa, FL 33619