LiveBar – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to a Demo
by Chris Christensen Add commentscategories: Internet
LiveWorld (where I am the EVP of Engineering and Operations) announced a new product called LiveBar today. LiveBar provides a simple way to add community to a content page, but we have talked about the functionality of LiveBar elsewhere.
The funny thing about LiveBar we wanted to show this to everyone months ago but we liked it too much. LiveBar did not start as a product, it started as a demo for our new LiveAPI Suite which we announced last month. To sell the LiveAPI suite we wanted to have a demo application that would show off what we could create with it. So we had one of our clever engineers start working on a demo. Our problem was that when he showed it to us we liked it so much that we did not want to show it to anyone, which as you may have figured out is OK for an application but really bad for a demo.
by Chris Christensen
I am the Director of Engineering for TripAdvisor.com/Flights. I am also the host of the Amateur Traveler. The Amateur Traveler is an online travel show that focuses primarily on travel destinations and what are the best places to travel to. It includes both a weekly audio podcast, a video podcast, and a blog.No Responses to “LiveBar – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to a Demo”
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Tags: community, liveapi, liveworld, Social Media
Bryan Person, LiveWorld
Says:September 16th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Makes me smile, Chris, as a I read this account. I wonder how many of the other products being announced here at the Web 2.0 come from similar “accidents.”