Intridea - Leaders in Agile Software Development

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

We are proud to announce today the official launch of Acts As Community. Acts As Community is a social network built on Intridea’s SocialSpring Platform for Ruby enthusiasts of all kinds (including Rails Developers, Merbivores, and those beyond the web app realm). Our goal is to provide a centralized resource for Ruby developers everywhere to gather and interact.

We’re very excited about the potential for the site. Right now, you can organize groups and events, share questions and code snippets as well as photos, videos and your blog’s RSS feed, and post job listings for interested Rubyists. We will also be continuing to roll out new features with a focus on open source and community development. The most important part of any social network, however, is you, the users! We hope you find the site useful and take part in the construction of a new community.

Intridea helped Geico launch Iheartcavemen.com – the web’s premier caveman dating site. This tongue-in-cheek take on the online dating scene allows gentlecavemen to post online profiles complete with customized caveman photos. The morphed photos can be virally distributed on dozens of social networks using the ClearSpring widget platform.

Iheartcavemen.com is based on Intridea’s SocialSpring platform. SocialSpring is an enterprise-level white-label social networking product. With SocialSpring, a company can quickly have a fully-featured custom social network in a fraction of the cost and development time of building a solution from scratch.

South by Southwest (SXSW) 2008 Launch

The site was developed in collaboration with our friends at iStrategyLabs. The site garnered A LOT of attention at the SXSW launch: Mashable, Valleywag - So easy, a caveman can do it, Valleywag - Even the cavemen are getting action

Intridea is pleased to announce the beta launch of VisualCV (http://www.visualcv.com). Intridea has been working closely with VisualCV for several months to develop their breakthrough site and bring it to market. VisualCV reinvents the paper resume into a dynamic career management tool by incorporating images, audio, and video alongside traditional resume content.

Intridea partnered with VisualCV because we believe their approach will revolutionize the way companies and professionals interact. Using cutting-edge Internet technologies, we worked with VisualCV to build a unique platform that delivers highly interactive user experience as well as a secure mechanism for sharing resume content. VisualCV partnered with Intridea because of the national reputation we've earned for our agile Ruby on Rails practices.

Check out www.VisualCV.com now

[UPDATE]

VisualCV has been generating a lot of media buzz so far - check out some of the coverage below:

• TechCrunch
• Washington Post (registration may be required)
• See the official press release