http://betabeat.com Just another WordPress.com site Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:23:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://betabeat.com http://betabeat.com/2012/06/everything-you-want-to-know-about-the-spring-2012-class-of-techstars-for-demo-day-slideshow/marquee-team_pic/#comments Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:49:38 -0400 http://betabeat.com/2012/06/everything-you-want-to-know-about-the-spring-2012-class-of-techstars-for-demo-day-slideshow/marquee-team_pic/ http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/marquee-team_pic.jpg The founding team behind Marquee, which used to be called DropType, knew they had a good idea when they presented it as a hack at a GitHub conference in Miami and shortly after saw four or five different copycats. “At first it was like, ‘Oh, that kinda sucks, we had something pretty cool going.’ And then it was like, ‘Wait a minute that's sort of validating!’” cofounder Alex Cabrerra told Betabeat. Mr. Cabrerra and his cofounders were trying to solve a problem they ran into running a web development shop in Miami. It was no easy task sharing and tweaking proposals when they had to work with the vagaries of their clients content management systems (CMS). Enter Marquee: a publishing platform designed to be an underlying layer that “understands content” and presents it as data representation of a webpage rather than a page itself so it can be integrated into third-party applications like, in theory, Wordpress and Tumblr, or even ePub and mobi files for a Kindle or Nook, which are both coming soon. “We are much more pure vision of what CMS should be,” said Mr. Cabrerra.



Using a drag-and-drop interface, users can add photos from Dropbox to their webpages and in the next few weeks, content from SoundCloud, Vimeo, and Instagram as well. You can easily resize elements, tweak text, add hyperlinks, and change alignment without knowing code. Considering what a slog it was to format this slideshow, we’re eager to give it a go.

]]> The founding team behind Marquee, which used to be called DropType, knew they had a good idea when they presented it as a hack at a GitHub conference in Miami and shortly after saw four or five different copycats. “At first it was like, ‘Oh, that kinda sucks, we had something pretty cool going.’ And then it was like, ‘Wait a minute that's sort of validating!’” cofounder Alex Cabrerra told Betabeat. Mr. Cabrerra and his cofounders were trying to solve a problem they ran into running a web development shop in Miami. It was no easy task sharing and tweaking proposals when they had to work with the vagaries of their clients content management systems (CMS). Enter Marquee: a publishing platform designed to be an underlying layer that “understands content” and presents it as data representation of a webpage rather than a page itself so it can be integrated into third-party applications like, in theory, Wordpress and Tumblr, or even ePub and mobi files for a Kindle or Nook, which are both coming soon. “We are much more pure vision of what CMS should be,” said Mr. Cabrerra.



Using a drag-and-drop interface, users can add photos from Dropbox to their webpages and in the next few weeks, content from SoundCloud, Vimeo, and Instagram as well. You can easily resize elements, tweak text, add hyperlinks, and change alignment without knowing code. Considering what a slog it was to format this slideshow, we’re eager to give it a go.

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