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.