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Simple Spark Gets a Lot More Social

Sharing web apps with your friends just got ridiculously easy.
A New Friends Area with Drag and Drop Ease
Add email addresses to your new friends area and then simply drag and drop apps to them that you think they would like. And, of course, no spam. We only send your friend an email when [...]

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Simple Spark Announces a Major Upgrade: Organize Your Apps in Sets and Much More

Today, we’re happy to announce a major upgrade to Simple Spark which includes a lot of new features and a serious redesign.
Organize Your Apps into Sets
Easily drag and drop apps directly from the catalog into your new sets. Rearrange your apps as you see fit by simply dragging them around. Remove, reorganize and [...]

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We’re Celebrating a Major Milestone with Video:
5000 Web Apps in 333 Seconds

Just a few months ago, we launched Simple Spark with 1000 web applications. Today, we’re proud to announce that the Simple Spark Catalog has surpassed 5000 fully searchable, summarized, and categorized web apps that are ready for discovery.
There’s some amazing work being done out there, so we though we’d celebrate by putting together a [...]

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Introducing Pay-Per-Click Contextual Advertising

We’ve given our ad system a major upgrade and are now happy to introduce Cost Per Click (CPC) targeted inline advertising.
Ads are now delivered based on search, category, and other contexts so that when ads are viewed, they are at their most effective for the advertiser and most appropriate for the user.
Paying for Real Clicks [...]

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Browse Into the Past with Browse by Date

You can now browse back through the last four weeks of additions to the catalog with our new date browser at the bottom of the Simple Spark front page.
This gives you another way to dig and explore through the Simple Spark Catalog. Thanks again for all the support.

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Don’t Miss Another Web App With The Daily Update

We’re currently tracking 4225 web apps. Did you catch them all as they came though? Me neither. Fortunately, we’ve added another great tool.
Introducing The Daily Update
Subscribe via email or feed reader and once a day you will get every single app that was added to the Simple Spark Catalog that day. [...]

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iPhone, Mobile, and Nintendo Wii Sections Added

One of the great things about web apps is their flexibility. Not only can you access web apps from any computer that has an internet connection, but if you’ve got mobile device (say, I dunno, an iPhone?) you can take your web apps with you. Talk about convenience. Many developers are taking advantage of the [...]

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Advertising Now Available on Simple Spark

As of today, we are officially accepting advertising on Simple Spark and we’d like to start things right with a note to our fantastic community.
To The Community
In our pursuit of paying our costs as well the rent from time to time, we would like to make the following promises to you, our community, right from [...]

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Some Very Cool New Browsing Options

We’re currently tracking 468 Social Networking apps, which is great, but sorting through them hasn’t been easy. Until now of course. Take a look.

And here’s what your options under Family and Kids looks like.

This should make a lot easier and much more fun to browse the aisles of the Simple Spark catalog.

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Your Reviews of Simple Spark, Now at 3500 Apps

Last week, we sent an email out to see if anyone would be interested in checking out Simple Spark. The reaction was extraordinary and we are unquestionably grateful.
Your overwhelmingly positive feedback fuels us to double our efforts and you can look forward to some seriously cool features in the weeks ahead.
Here’s just a brief [...]

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