Present.ly is a WebWare 100 Finalist!
The WebWare 100 is a yearly contest held by CNET that allows the public to pick what the 100 best web applications of the year are. Past winners included such products as GMail and Amazon MP3, so we're very excited to be included as a finalist for this year's selection.
Voting is open right now, so please vote for us! We think that business micro-communication is an important next step in the future of communication, and your votes will help validate that and move it even further into the mainstream. Thanks for your support.
Bump Uses Intridea CrowdSound To Gain Beta Users' Feedback
User Comments Via Intridea's Social Feedback Widget Provide Unexpected Insights Into Customer Priorities and BumpTop Product Feature Preferences
Intridea, Inc., the agile enterprise Web 2.0 company, today announced that Bump Inc. has successfully implemented Intridea CrowdSound, the social feedback widget, to gather user suggestions on its beta software. Bump has developed the groundbreaking BumpTop three-dimensional graphical user interface, which mimics the behavior of a real-world desk.
Announcing the CrowdSound July 2008 Release
Intridea is proud to announce the July 2008 release of CrowdSound, the social feedback tool that opens up new lines of communication between you and your customers. The social feedback tool allows enterprise websites and social networking sites to gather, organize and respond to suggestions from their customers—for just $10 per month. Because CrowdSound requires only minimal Web developer knowledge to implement, businesses of all sizes can quickly realize the power of interactive, Web-based customer feedback.
The latest release of CrowdSound has many new much-requested features:
* Customize the widget's colors and look and feel
* A hosted website in addition to the widget
* Custom suggestion buckets
* Private suggestions for sensitive topics
* SSL encryption
* iPhone integration
* User-selectable, customizable categories for each suggestion
* Profanity filtering to focus on constructive criticism
* ...and many more!
Using CrowdSound, companies can open a direct line of communications with customers via the Web transparently gathering their suggestions without forcing them to navigate away from their page. The standards-based, highly customizable tool seamlessly integrates with an enterprise website or social networking site while providing a tailored look-and-feel that reinforces the company brand.
For additional details and to try it out, visit CrowdSound.com
Intridea featured in Washington Post
The Washington Post recently profiled Intridea and our products on its WASHBIZ Blog and in print on Monday, April 28, 2008; Page D04. The article explains our MediaPlug, Scalr, SocialSpring, and Smarkr products, and goes on to say that "Intridea may be the model company for the modern Internet economy."
Click here to read the entire article
Intridea's Scalr on TechCrunch and AWS
Since open sourcing Scalr late yesterday we've been mentioned on TechCrunch and the Amazon Web Services Blog
We're extremely happy with the response so far. If anyone is interested in contributing to the project please visit the Scalr Project on Google Code.
Open-sourcing Scalr
Intridea is officially open-sourcing Scalr - a redundant, self-curing, and self-scaling hosting environment build on top of Amazon's EC2.
Scalr utilizes EC2 to provide a multi-tiered hosting environment with pre-built images for load balancers, database servers, and application servers. Designed with flexibility in mind, users can further customize each type of machine to use as nodes in their server farm or customize a generic base image for any number of purposes. The application monitors and maintains the server farm by reconfiguring the entire cluster when machines fail or when new machines are inserted. Additionally Scalr can be setup to replace failed machines and scale up and down based on user configured thresholds.
The system was initially designed for MediaPlug, a white label audio, video, and image transcoding service that needed to scale based on customer demand.
The project can be found at http://scalr.intridea.com
The project is still very young, but we're hoping that by open sourcing it the AWS development community can turn this into a robust hosting platform give users an alternative to the current fee based services available.
