Summer Time

It's summer time and for the first time I have 2 kids during summer …

In addition, it's the first time since high school that I have "summer time".

Most of the parents are afraid from the summer vacation and talk about it all the time.

My wife and I had a plan – to try to do whatever we can to enjoy it.

We had three and a half weeks to fill with fun time :)

So what we did spend our summer?

Safari, playgrounds, coloring pages, computer games, books, Lego, Playmobile, beach and 4 days in a hotel with swimming pools and a lot more.

That’s it – today is the last day of the "summer time" and it's time to get back to kindergarten.

Believe it or not, we had a great time as parents and as a family and as my wife said to me: "We didn't have enough time to do all the things I planned".

Next summer, it will be even happier, because our children will be able to enjoy Tucoola as well as part of the summer time activity.

To be or not to be (and where)

We are on still working on our new version – as always, we are adding a lot of new features to the product.

We asks ourselves regarding each feature whether it is the one everyone is waiting for, or not :).

A few weeks ago, my son (2.5 years old) discovered my iPhone.

He can unlock the iPhone, navigate to HIS page and choose an App, he knows how to return to the page again (through home) and then go to pics and watch them.

So, just like we knew 2 years ago, we need to bring Tucoola to all of the platforms.

So where do we start? iPhone, Android, Ovi?

And what about social networks? Facebook, Myspace, Google Me?

And let's talk about the platform – PSP, Wii, Xbox?

Don't worry, Tucoola's strategy and vision is to be in all of these places and platforms.

We will check all the options and get back to you soon with product that will be there for you – at your house, car, flights and all over!

The Big Day

We are getting ready for the big day and we still found time to think about the next stages.

As a start-up company we have a vision.
Our vision, is to grow with you as parents, to grow with our children and to be an on-line home for parents and children.

It's really easy to imagine, what needs to be there:
The children would like to have various content, that fits their age and flavor.
Games, video channel, stories, coloring pages and everything they expect to find in the Web.

Parents will have the confidence that their children are safe and still having fun, learning and progressing, in their development progress.

What about a community? Yes, we believe that today any one of us can help each other to be better: better parents, better children and better persons.

We will bring the technology and all of us will bring the information and the tools to do so.

I find myself smiling when I imagine it – Tucoola's product in a year or two will be all we asked for as a parents and more.

Do you have the patience to wait? I don’t :)

Games, Games & Games

There are so many games in our world!

As you already know, soon Tucoola will launch the first commercial version.

As you can imagine, we are working days and nights on it with the desire to bring you the best service.

As part of it, we are dealing with the information center, improvement of the analyzes engine, content issues and games.

If someone will take a look at what we are doing, he will tell himself that we are playing all day :).

The mission of finding the appropriate game for each development group and to recognize the skills the game is dealing with our academic group, it's challenging.

There so many games that can be great for children but some of them ruined are because they contain some bad characters, others contain violence and some are not simply appropriate for children.

You can count on Tucoola's team to make sure that the games that you will find in our catalog will target your children's taste and will benefit there development progress.

Have a great summer, before it ends we will be there with news!

Tucoola's team

Our Time

In times likes today, the hardest mission is to manage our time.

We have so many things to do, and it is very difficult.

It is even harder when you try to be part of the family during week days.

Unfortunately, no one has developed a startup that you can gets two more hours a day for $9.95 but there are a lot of tools that can help with time management.

In a time like this, when Tucoola's team is working hard on the first commercial version of our Tucoola's Zone, we found ourselves working days and nights to provide the best service.

One of the things that we are working, on which should be available in the next few months is activities for the parents and the children.

So, sorry! We can't get you two more hours a day for $9.95, but we can help you with 2 hours of fun with your children!

Enjoy!

Retro Games - Do you want to have some?

I have a thing for retro games.

It began a few years ago when I found in Bangkok the Donkey Kong game from my childhood.

It cost a lot and it didn't work – I decided that I'll find a working game and pay whatever needed just to have the ability to give it to my son one day.

So, now I have it, and I also have my old Pac Man from the 80's and even a box of Atari.

So I have a shelf with all the retro games, and it means more to me than most of the things I have – it's my childhood games!

After all the "80's mobile devices", most of us "moved on" to computer such as – Commodore 64, 286, 386, etc.

The games in the computer were the funniest ever – we played and played and played all day and all night.

Now I have the bonus to "play" in the game world – it's a great environment, and we enjoy it a lot.

As a service that will be there for children from the first day in the gaming world, we hope that we will help our children to create great memories, just like we enjoy them today.

PS – these days we are working on our Fan Page in Facebook – "Tucoola" – You can already search for it and "like" it.

Anyway, soon we will give away some retro prizes such as … Donley Kong, Pac Man and more :-)

Congratulations Tucoola X3 times

It's been a while since we started to work on Tucoola's project - actually, two years since the idea came up.

We have made a long and hard way to this point.

Our potential partners – the games developers and the distributors understood the potential, and now they are partners (and not "potential").

Our investors understood the potential, and now they are part of Tucoola.

Our service providers understood the potential, and it seems that they will enjoy the growth of Tucoola one day.

But something new has happened in the last months.

The media discovered Tucoola – it happened without using PR services, without extra marketing, without a big covering of a leading blog – it just happened.

3 valued organization chose Tucoola as one of the most promising in the world!

In the last two months Tucoola was announced as a finalist of "innovate!2010"

Winner of mini "SeedCamp" in Tel Aviv

Finalist of "Red Herring 100" in Europe

So, we didn't launch our commercial version of the Tucoola's Zone, but as you can understand, the professionals out there that review hundreds of companies every year understood that we are here to make a change.

We hope that soon, when all of you will be able to join the Tucoola's Zone, get information about your children's development progress and tools to enhance it, we will walk with the same feeling – we are changing something together in this world – our children's future.