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Card sorting is a simple technique that allows you to get feedback from your users about how information should be organized. Originally, researchers wrote labels on 3 x 5 cards or sticky notes, and asked participants to sort the cards into piles that were similar. Then the participants would label each pile. Using statistics and/or “eyeballing” the results across several participants, researchers were able to create better information structures.
With WebSort, card sorting is done online. People can complete your study from anywhere in the world, and you benefit from expert analysis tools that help you make sense of the data.
Using WebSort, you can conduct card sorts that will allow you to:
construct your website intuitively
validate the structure of your organization
get feedback on your company’s intranet
learn where to add new content to an existing site
reassign tasks and roles within a team
create actionable workflows for project management
Google’s new music search feature makes it easy to find music. Just search for an artist, album, song or even a few lyrics to get song previews from its partners.
SendFlow is a web-based platform that lets you create, broadcast and manage interactive SMS text and Voice messages. With SendFlow you can broadcast two-way messages that respond to caller inputs in real-time using land lines, mobile phones and internet transports like G-Talk.
You don’t need programming skills or detailed knowledge of communications technology to get started.If you can manage a spreadsheet, you can build and broadcast messages that interact with callers, capture data and create revenue.
Key SendFlow features:
Design, build and broadcast interactive messages
Supports SMS text and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) messages
Get SMS text responses through our shared numbers for FREE
Take calls from the web with our Click-to-Call widget for FREE
For Voice services use pre-recorded prompts or Text to Speech Engine
Integrate with Business Processes
Intuitive, do it yourself workspace: no coding required
Test Text and Voice services inside message Flow Designer
Complete access for FREE
Free broadcasts over Internet transport (SIP, G-Talk)
Broadcast to land lines and mobile phones for pennies a minute
MindTouch transforms businesses with a new class of enterprise software that cuts costs, increases revenue, and provides greater transparency across the organization. MindTouch provides wiki-like ease of use with a sophisticated web services framework for rapid application development, creating flexible workflows and rapid integration. MindTouch creates a vibrant real-time information fabric by federating content from across enterprise silos, such as CRM, ERP, file servers, email, databases, web services and more.
CallFire allows you to purchase unlimited local or toll free phone numbers for your sales reps or advertising team. Configure one, or hundreds of numbers online in minutes. Call Tracking reveals which customers call the most, investment habits, and which forms of advertisements are most effective.
CallFire can track, forward, and record all your calls, allowing you to visualize which investors and marketing ads drive the most phone calls. Callfire is the easiest way to increase advertising ROI, by tracking phone calls and leads back to the original AD.
SocialScope is a digital life manager that brings social media to the phone. It enables users to keep track of online conversations, contacts and content from a single mobile inbox. Users no longer have to juggle multiple apps or deal with the latency of the mobile browser. All online data is immediately available and intelligently filtered based on location, date and preference.
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Mingleverse provider of “Consumer Telepresence” service called MingleRooms; an online and mobile communication product for everyone using integrated 3D voice, visual and audio technolgies delivered through a simple web browser.
The MingleRoom service combines 25+ proprietary technologies and media-sharing features through a web browser that is free to ultra low-cost, simple to use and very realistic. MingleRooms allow you to instantly interact or “Mingle” live with 2 to 50 people simultaneously, all from separate locations without any special hardware or complex service plans.
Roambi is a free app that turns your data in Excel spreadsheets (as well as Salesforce.com, SAP and others) into slick interactive graphics that make analyzing business opportunities and sales trends easy. Making it much easier to analyze and view the large amount of data on your iPhone. That’s clever!
Pelago knows that just about every location-based app in the world is seeking coverage right now just prior to SXSW where they will all battle Highlander-style. So they approached me with a pretty smart pitch: curing the "social rut." What they mean by that is these days, despite the prevalence of social networks, people are actually less social th […]
Over the last six months, doubleTwist, the iTunes alternative that lets you manage your music, videos, and photos, has really been stepping up its game. In October the company integrated an Amazon-powered MP3 store, allowing users to download and sync their music directly with any of hundreds of compatible devices, much as they would with the iTunes/iPod com […]
Twitter has just flipped the switch on gelocation within Twitter.com. Now at least some users can pull up location-based information from individual tweets on the microblogging website.While attaching locations to tweets has been possible for several months now through third party apps, Twitter.com itself hasn’t done much geolocation until today. It was fi […]
Sony has named its forthcoming PlayStation 3 motion controller “PlayStation Move.” The controller is Sony’s answer to Nintendo’s Wii Remote and Microsoft’s Project Natal for Xbox 360 — a way to use motion to play video games instead of (or at least in addition to) buttons.The controller was originally announced at the E3 interactive entertainment conference […]
Last Saturday, several hundred folks gathered at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government to spend the day discussing Open Government. I attended, and Laurel Ruma (O'Reilly's Gov 2.0 Evangelist) was one of the organizers. […]
Folks in the web world are accustomed to granular information, yet brick-and-mortar businesses are still largely in the dark on the data front. But what if business owners could gather hard data? What if they could use that information to entice customers and adapt their offerings? Mobile location tools are poised to make this possible. […]
Hardly a week goes by where we don’t receive a company pitch from a hopeful startup trying to crash the group deals scene. And for good reason, since venture capital firms seem happy to throw cash at well-executed takes on the business model. LivingSocial is the latest to score a large amount of funding. It raised $25 million in a round led by U.S. Venture P […]
Just after Sony debuted its new motion controller tonight, the Japanese company threw a big God of War III launch party. The game has been in the works for more than three years and it finally debuts on March 16. After a day full of GamesBeat@GDC panels, I made it to the party, which was bathed in neon light and featured a cool band. In the game, you play Kr […]
Think the semantic web is all hype with no bite? Paul Allen backed semantic startup Evri will announce tomorrow that it has been acquired, we've learned from a reliable source. The service specializes in extracting the names of people, places and things from raw streams of text in order to facilitate smart user navigation and related content recommend […]
The recently unveiled secret agreement that Apple makes iPhone developers sign supports what many have suspected all along: Apple is trying to control the universe. […]
Despite the fact that Groupon dominates all of its smaller competitors in the daily-deals market, rival LivingSocial is trying to draw some blood by expanding with the help of a new infusion of venture funding. Originally posted at The Social […]
Startups.com is the place where reference information and Q&A content come together to deliver the best answers for entrepreneurs.
Card sorting is a simple technique that allows you to get feedback from your users about how information should be organized. Originally, researchers wrote labels on 3 x 5 cards or sticky notes, and asked participants to sort the cards into piles that were similar. Then the participants would label each pile. Using statistics and/or “eyeballing” the results across several participants, researchers were able to create better information structures.
MindTouch
CallFire
SocialScope
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