Our friends over at Brightcove recently hosted a Great Debate on online video advertising. They’ve put up a video which shows how they used the Live Talkback swingometer to get a live reaction from the audience to the two speaker’s points. All the details here, and the video below http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1155381788
We’ve updated the console with a couple of neat new features. You can now select the icon for your event that is displayed on the events list screen, and also preview the event-specific URL for private events. But the big news for some is that we’ve finally managed to solve the problem some users were … Continue reading
As promised here the new versions of the Live Talkback application for iPhone and Blackberry are now available. You can get them by going to http://m.livetalkback.com on your Blackberry or iPhone and following the links from there. And of course the iPhone app is available via iTunes App Store. We’re really excited about these new … Continue reading
As part of the recent update to the voting clients, we’ve added some new features to the event organiser’s console to make your job just a little easier. Events can now have a default skin. Any poll you then create will default to this skin - saving you from having to remember to set the … Continue reading
The elves have been slaving away in the code pits to bring you a shiny new version of Live Talkback, and I’m pleased to say it’s now here. The main goals of this version were: to make the user experience better when there are lots of events running at once allow private polls for those … Continue reading
We’ve just made another release of the Live Talkback console and results screens. New goodies include: Better navigation in the results screen. All event/poll/slide navigation now takes place in a floating overlay, making it much easier to use under pressure on stage! Fixed issues with skin uploading that were affecting some users More coming soon!
Sometime in the last 24 hours the Live Talkback server pixies recorded the 250,000th vote by a user. Since we passed the 100,000 mark at the end of 2009 voting volumes have been steadily increasing, so the pixies are getting busier and busier.
We’ve just rolled out a new version of the console that customers use to manage their polls. This version adds drag-and-drop carousel creation, which completes and complements the new carousels feature recently released in the results screen. With Carousels you now have much more control over how the results of your polls are displayed to … Continue reading
Live Talkback works brilliantly for panel discussions where the audience knows more than the panel could. But we don’t recommend you use it quite like this: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/new_live_poll_allows_pundits_to
Why does Live Talkback not use SMS for voting? It turns out there’s several reasons, including speed, cost and user experience. Continue reading
