Thank you to everybody who signed up the private beta. We are hard at work refining some of the final aspects of TypeRoom Lite and are going to start sending beta invites shortly thereafter.

The response we got was actually far beyond what we had anticipated in terms of beta requests, media requests and just general interest.

You may or may not have seen the TypeRoom article that posted this morning in InformationWeek. If you wanted to know a bit more about the TypeRoom Lite vs. TypeRoom Pro as well as some more information about TypeRoom in general, this is a worthwhile read.

For those of you who have emailed us, we will do our best to get back with you as soon as possible. We are looking forward to your feedback on the system (and have enjoyed reading some of your blog posts!).

On another note, you’ll note I am writing “TypeRoom” instead of “Typeroom”. After some user feedback, we decided to change the way this was written. The CamelCase version, while it may not look as good to us, avoids the potential misinterpretation of TypeRoom as “Typer-oom”…gotta love Flickr.

We’ll be posting another update for you shortly. Thanks again for all of your interest, blog posts and reviews.

This blog post, I am happy to say, officially marks coming out of stealth mode as a company.

We have been working hard for some time now to build a product that we feel is going to offer a new approach and a simpler approach to the problem of editing a website.

If you have ever felt that the world of the CMS has been overly complicated, well, we agree with you.

Typeroom, as our tag line states, is a company focused on “innovative ways to solve common content management problems”….perhaps the most fundamental innovation is a concept we call a Remote CMS — where we host the actual website editing tool, but leave the hosting for the site as-is.

There will be more to come on this later, as well as more information on the other features we hope will make the subject of content management a simpler and more enjoyable area (both for developer and end user).

We have received some very positive feedback already and are looking forward to opening up the application to a wider user base.

Sign up for the private beta if you are interested in being amongst the first to check out Typeroom Lite.

If you want to blog about Typeroom, we’d be happy to share what we can at this time to make your blog postings as interesting as possible…email us at press@typeroom.com and we’ll do our best to get back with you!

Thank you everybody for the spectacular feedback that was received from the first rollout. We have been busy implementing many of the changes you have suggested and are about to make the next version live.

In the next version, you will notice a new beta screen that will require you to request an invite to participate. Feel free to sign up on this page if you are interested in using the application…otherwise, sit back and enjoy the new Typeroom Lite screencast : )

We will start accepting certain users for the private beta as soon as the next version is ready and as always will be looking forward to hearing your feedback!

Thanks for visiting. This is our first blog post.

The past year or so has been an exciting process of building a tool that we hope is going to greatly benefit web designers, developers and website owners. The first version of this tool has been used only on our internal client’s projects with surprising success. Typeroom is now the next step in our offering of this product to a broader audience. This blog will be our means to communicate with you about how it is going, hopefully gain your input and feedback and discuss topics that we think will be beneficial to web developers and website owners.

The subject matter in this blog will include:

• Descriptions of the features included in Typeroom as they are released
• Product release updates
• Lessons learned in building Typeroom (and the other CMSs we have built)
• Our ideas and philosophies on CMS design in general
• How we (as Internet Simplicity) have learned from implementing a CMS in our developments.

Today we launch the beta version of Typeroom Lite as well as the typeroom.com website. We are looking forward to hearing everybody’s feedback on the idea itself, and on the first public trial of the editor we are rolling out.

On that note, please realize that there are going to be bugs in the editor. We have not ironed out every scenario yet, and only expect to have a really workable editor after it gets some serious use. So we would love to hear your feedback on the editor, bugs you hit, things you find workable and the things you think need help. Many thanks to the minds behind the idea of the WYM editor — we think it is a much better way to edit content on the internet. (There will be more blog posts to come on the editor itself).

Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more updates!