Press release for Twiistup 2008

Twiddla (www.twiddla.com), a free, no-setup online collaboration tool, announced today that it will be showing off new features at the upcoming Twiistup (www.twiistup.com) event on July 17th. Twiddla is one of 11 companies invited to “show off” to a sold-out audience of technology-, media- and entertainment-types at the annual Los Angeles event. Twiddla is a web-based platform that helps distributed teams meet virtually and collaborate in real time by providing tools to create mark-ups of live Web sites, uploaded images and documents, or a blank canvas. In addition to an advanced chat feature, Twiddla offers an opportunity for collaborators to speak with one another via PhoneFromHere.com. “We are very excited to be sharing our new features at Twiistup,” said Benjamin Satterfield, Co-founder and CEO of Twiddla. “We developed them in response to user requests and we think they will enhance the experience of Twiddla significantly. We’re looking forward to the community’s response.” “With factors like the increasing number of geographically-dispersed teams and the high cost of gas, the need for easy and effective online collaboration tools has never been greater. Twiddla is the solution for anyone who wants to meet and collaborate online without enlisting a tech support team or needing a big corporate budget,” said Satterfield. “It’s painless, it’s easy, it’s fun, and it’s free.” Twiistup is currently sold-out, but photos, blogs, and clips from the event will be available on their website after the event.

Demo Girl gives Twiddla a Nice Walk Thru

http://flash.screeniac.com/twiddla-dg/twiddla-dg.html?TB_iframe=true&height=590&width=1050 DemoGirl worked with Twiddla on the linked video and created a great intro tutorial. Thanks! While some new features are older ones fixed, this is still a good walk thru of the app's features.

Twiddla Demo at NYC Tech Meetup

Hey, No Joke! Benjamin Satterfield presents April 1, 2008 at the NYC Tech Meetup in the new IAC building in Manhattan with fellow speakers:

1. Steve Rosenbaum: http://magnify.net
2. Oliver Hurst-Hiller: http://DonorsChoose.org
3. John Pavley: http://exchange.conte
4. Mark Ghuneim: http://www.trendrr.com
5. Ben Kaufman: http://kluster.com
6. Ben Satterfield: http://twiddla.com
7. Justin Ouellette: http://muxtape.com
8. Nate Westheimer: http://bricabox.com

At the end of the demo, the wifi went down. See, we truly are a disruptive technology! Great to show off the demo with an Apple too, considering they just turned 32 today. Thanks to Nate & Christian for the video and help. And Justin for his patience and great demo as well.

Oh yeah, we won!

If you've been following the technology press lately, you've probably already heard that we won the SXSW Web Award for Technical Achievement last week. We're pretty excited about that, but we've been so busy these last couple weeks that we completely forgot to mention it!

So yeah, we're officially on the radar. 30,000 new users have signed up in the last two weeks, and we're getting a ton of great feedback. Thanks for that! We'll keep you posted (hopefully in a more timely manner next time!)

Peachpit Press, New Riders Interview at SXSWi

Gary-Paul with New Riders, PeachpitTV interviews Benjamin Satterfield about Twiddla.com and it's win at SXSWi 2008 during the conference.

Twiddla at SXSW!

Twiddla has been getting some good attention lately. Among other things, we've been chosen as a finalist at the SXSW 2008 Web Awards. Check out the competition:

http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/finalists/

Real Time Collaboration across a Distributed Team

Twiddla has come along quite a ways in the last few months. That is to say, Twiddla has come along nicely in the last few weeks, after having languished for 3 months while we concentrated on other development.

But now, the project that we originally needed Twiddla for is safely launched, and we have some room to breathe. We also have some interested parties that would like to see us get a product out the door.

Twiddla has a bunch of new whiteboarding features that will make it easier to get your point across in a web meeting. It has support for voice communications now, and a much cleaner user interface. There's a pretty new design on the way for the application itself, and hopefully we'll replace our train-wreck of a homepage shortly too.

In short, we're back at it again. We hope you stick around to see where we go from here!