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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.

Through CrowdSound, Bump has gained valuable — and sometimes unexpected user insight — into the BumpTop beta product. The customer feedback on feature preferences and priorities has helped Bump to focus its development efforts on the functionality that will offer the highest customer satisfaction when BumpTop launches.

“We are committed to changing the way users experience their computer desktops with BumpTop, and it’s a top priority to deliver a stellar product right out the gate,” said Anand Agarawala, founder and CEO of BumpTop. “With CrowdSound, Intridea has provided a fantastic tool to help us deliver the product users want.”

Will specialty coding skills help developers ride out the financial crisis? Some say environments like Ruby and Ruby on Rails may enable developers to fare better in times of financial stress because they can do more with less and be more productive. Others say that argument is a stretch.

When the going gets tough ... well, you know the saying … the tough get going. However, in the case of software development, in times of financial crisis—like we're in—when belt-tightening begins, some developers and development shops might be better suited to roll with the turbulent times than others.

These folks include Ruby and Ruby on Rails developers, and other programmers who focus on dynamic languages or provide specialty programming skills that many people claim enable them to do more with fewer resources.

...One such shop that hopes to ride out the financial crisis is Intridea, a software development house focusing on Ruby, Rails and agile development.

Here's Intridea co-founder Dave Naffis whose Eye Street-based agile software development company is launching Present.ly, a Twitter-like short-form communication tool for businesses today at the Web 2.0 expo in New York. The new application will let a company's employees let others know what they are working on, tap collective knowledge and track info in real time on the web and on mobile devices, so the boss always knows what's going on: Yikes!

Another company hot on iPhone's trail: Software developer Intridea, based in Potomac. It makes a CrowdSound widget that lets users vote on different aspects of a Web site, allowing the site to know what's working and what's not; now it can now be accessed from the iPhone. Above, Intridea President of Partnerships Barg Upender and Director of Mobile Solutions Brendan Lim. "Users will be able to check in on their site from anywhere," Barg tells us.

With CrowdSound, companies can put an ear to customer noise.

CrowdSound -- essentially a customer survey widget -- can be placed on just about any Web page, enabling visitors to submit feedback without navigating away from the site. Users can also rank or vote upon favorite suggestions, providing the company with Digg-like popularity results.

Intridea Inc has announced the general availability of CrowdSound. For $10 per month, enterprise and social networking Web sites can get customer feedback and gather, organize and respond to suggestions using this new on-demand social feedback tool.

Intridea is handling the software development for Crossmine.com, see what Bisnow has to say about it!

We love scoops more than air (not really, but you get the idea), so when our own Deep Throat Bob Nelson invited us to an Alexandria parking garage lunch at Lebanese Taverna at Tysons II to tell us about his new venture capital directory called “CrossMine,” we happily accepted. Bob’s site, which launches in beta tomorrow, will organize vc’s, vc- and angel-funded companies, and everyone looking for start-up cash in one spot.

In what he prefers to call a distributed Web services architecture, VisualCV is using the MediaPlug on-demand service from Intridea Inc., which is designed to allow developers to transcode and store complex media files using Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Web 2.0 company Intridea announced the launch of what it calls the first social network custom tailored for the Ruby on Rails programming language user community.

Called the Acts As Community (AAC), the site provides a Rails developers and users with the ability to connect with other developers, find and post Rails related jobs and create a homepage for open source projects.

The folks at Intridea have been coding up a storm! In time for this week's Railsconf, they are rolling out a hosted, on-demand version of their popular Scalr tool, a new release of their MediaPlug media server appliance, and the Acts as Community social network.

David Simms examines Intridea’s new launch Scalr, which debuted at RailsConf Thursday, May 29.

For $50 per month, you can use Scalr to set up server farms capable of scaling up to 100,000 or more users…"Typically enterprises have to buy extra server capacity and expensive load balancing products to prevent spikes from bringing their Web sites to a crawl," said Dave Naffis, Intridea founding partner and director of product development.

Intridea has announced the launch of Acts As Community, described by company officials as "the first social network custom-tailored to encourage communication and collaboration among users of the Ruby programming language.

Vendor Intridea today announced the debut of Scalr, which company officials describe as “the self-curing and self-scaling hosting environment” using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud…The company has also announced the Summer 2008 release of the MediaPlug on-demand service, which lets users transcode and store complex media files using Amazon Web Services.

Intridea, a D.C. area Web company with 15 employees, has no office. It hasn't received any venture capital. It's happy to work in the background. And in just a year in existence, it's launched four products. Intridea may be the model company for the modern Internet economy.