Asym has expanded – you can now reach 49% more readers
October 24, 2016Asymmetrica Team
We’re excited to announce Asym has doubled its language base: we now support two new languages, Spanish and French. Together with our existing support for English and German, Asym can now deliver text optimization to 68% of the top 10M websites and 39% of the world’s 3.6 billion internet users. That’s a growth in coverage of 27% […]
continue reading...Technology makes us information rich and attention poor
June 2, 2016Asymmetrica Team
You can’t speed read (5-10x faster) without a corresponding loss in comprehension, but it turns out that you can read faster and understand more of what you read if you improve the user experience inside the foveal window. This post describes relevant terms and examines empirical evidence on improving the user experience of reading. A […]
continue reading...Asymmetrica takes on galactic literacy with Klingon support for online readers
April 1, 2016Asymmetrica Team
SAN FRANCISCO – April 1, 2016 – Today, San Francisco based tech startup, Asymmetrica (asym.co) announced Klingon language support for their product, “Asym.” Klingon expands language support from Terran languages such as English and German, which was recently announced at DLD16 in January. Klingon is the largest non-Terran language in use on the internet and […]
continue reading...The Compound Interest of Better Reader Engagement
March 3, 2016Ken Brownfield
Asymmetrica was founded to improve reading comprehension and speed. Not only for those who struggle with reading, but for those want to read and understand more in our increasingly hectic, distracted lifestyles. Our collective reading ability has an enormous impact on our success and improved productivity, both as individuals and as communities. Improving reading isn’t just […]
continue reading...Safari & Firefox: The death and rebirth of browser extensions
November 25, 2015Ken Brownfield
Recently I began to notice that users of our Asym Extension for Safari and Firefox were not automatically receiving new features and important compatibility updates to Asym. But our Chrome users were staying up to date. Everything on our end seemed okay, but we shortly found the root cause. We thought that thebackground in this […]
continue reading...The Best of Intentions
September 2, 2015Ken Brownfield
A NEW SET OF FEATURES, AND AN UNEXPECTED PROBLEM Earlier this week at Asymmetrica, we ran into a bit of a hiccup. Actually, it was a bit of a disaster. We came out of it with some bruises and some lost users, but also with a clearer sense of what Asymmetrica is about and a […]
continue reading...Introducing Asym Spacing
July 13, 2015Ken Brownfield
The spaces between the words we read every day have remained essentially unchanged since the Early Middle Ages. Uniform, unvarying word spacing dominates how type is arranged despite radical technological developments in the past millennium in the way text and documents are created and distributed. But why are even spaces the norm, when decades of […]
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