Intridea - Leaders in Agile Software Development

Intridea is going to be actively involved throughout Railsconf 2008. We're sending our entire team, so you're sure to see us around if you're attending.

Official Sponsors - Come Visit Us!

Intridea is an official Silver Sponsor of Railsconf this year. Come check our booth during lunch and the designated expo times (10:00-10:45am, 12:30-2:00pm, 3:30-4:30pm on Friday and Saturday). We'll be giving away t-shirts, will have product demos, and will be announcing the release of two products. Also, be sure to sign up on the Acts As Community.

Intridea Presents Yoga on Rails

Intridea will kick off each morning of RailsConf 2008 by sponsoring a yoga session aimed at refreshing developers’ bodies and minds before a day of sessions. Kate Sanderson of Portland's Yoga Bhoga will be leading the session. Yoga on Rails will be an easy beginner’s yoga session – so don’t be shy about coming out even if this will be your first yoga experience. We hope to see you there!

Community Code Drive

Intridea will be actively involved in the Community Code Drive on the first day of RailsConf 2008. The Community Code Drive is a chance for Rails developers to give back to the Rails community by teaching others and contributing code to open source projects. The entire Intridea team will be on hand to help support this effort.

Chris and Josh Speaking on Sunday at 1:50pm

Want to build a Rails application quickly? Competitors in the Rails Rumble had 48 hours to design, develop, and deploy a complete application. Chris Selmer and Josh Owens will take attendees through the development processes of the winning four-man Tasty Planner team, and compare it with those of the one-man Your Pet Records team. The discussion will include techniques, short-cuts, helpers, and Rails plug-ins that helped speed development. Join Chris and Josh in the Portland Ballroom 256 at 1:50pm on Sunday.

UPDATE: PDF version of presentation slides available here

With all the buzz about crowdsound, we got picked up by KillerStartups. Kudos to the CrowdSound product team for great product launch and exciting new features under development.

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Intridea’s latest product, crowdsound has been featured on TechCrunch. We love showcasing our products to a new audience, so it’s definitely a treat everytime we make it to the front page.

Here’s the link: CrowdSound on TechCrunch

We’re currently hard at work integrating our new features and pay-plans to take us out of public beta. At the same time, our own widget is helping us receive new suggestions effortlessly—these help us polish our existing features till they shine. As such, here’s a status update on some of the most popular suggestions.

You will soon be able to customize your widget top-to-bottom. Here are a few screenshots of widgets built using the new customization interface:

Next, we’re working on custom categories/tags. These would be in the form of an admin-created, user-selectable list of keywords to attach to each suggestion. For all those who requested internationalization—we’re working on it. We are also working on a new search algorithm to improve the existing suggestions shown when posting a new suggestion.

The bottom line is that crowdsound is under very active development. We recommend that you subscribe to this RSS feed if you want to hear about new releases. Thank you for your support!

Intridea is pleased to announce the official public beta release of crowdsound, a new tool that allows companies and websites to gather, organize and respond to suggestions from their users.

By integrating the crowdsound widget on their website, companies can transparently gather suggestions from users without forcing them to navigate away from their page. Using the widget, users can post new suggestions and also vote and comment on existing suggestions—essentially building a community around the improvement of the company’s product or website.

crowdsound’s detailed admin interface then lets companies respond to each suggestion, opening up previously closed lanes of communication between the company and users. The admin interface also allows companies to manage, organize and integrate suggestions into their workflows quite easily.

crowdsound is currently in public beta. After the beta phase, we will launch reasonably priced, tiered subscriptions plans with exciting new features.

Intridea is pleased to announce the official release of SocialSpring, the world's most advanced white-label social networking platform. SocialSpring provides enterprise-grade solutions for social networking. Built on a modular and extensible platform, SocialSpring powered networks can easily integrate everything from photos and videos to forums and community questions. With an impressive list of features, Social Spring can power any social community.

See it in action! SocialSpring is the base of our Ruby community launched this week - Acts As Community - and we also have a demo installation available.

For more information, please visit http://www.socialspring.com