LiveDemo Imminent

Not much else to say… we’ll be keepin’ it real over at PostFresh.com starting at 7:45pm eastern. Hope to see you all there!

Public Demo & Plans for Beta

Public Demo: Jan 7th
We’ve reached a point in the development that I think we’re ready to flip another switch. On the 7th we’re having a public demo of the capabilities in the form of a LiveBlog of the GMAC Bowl. Because I’m not very funny, we’ve rounded up a venerable (and funny) LiveBlogging expert from Every Day Should Be Saturday to take care of things for us. It should be a pretty good time and for those who care more about PostFresh and less about college football (in general) or that bowl game (in specific), it’ll be a good example of the features.

Plans for Beta
After the demo, if things go well, we’ll spend a few days squashing some bugs and fine-tuning before we start opening up for beta testing. Things are still subject to change, but we anticipate that the early stages of the beta will work like this:

If you have an event you want to liveblog, you’ll let us know in advance (there will be a form) and we’ll slowly open the nozzle number, frequency, and size of the blogs so that we can keep an eye on performance and bandwidth.

Once we’re satisfied that performance is where it should be and our host is satisfied that it won’t take down the whole noc, we’ll start into a period where beta testers will be able to start events at the drop of a hat, as they please, and we’ll increase the number of hosts until we’re happy with where the software is, at which point we’ll release it to the public. Beyond the very first stage of this, we have no solid time-line.