Short history
July 2, 2008
As a starting post, a short history on TalkerBee seems like a good idea.
TalkerBee, or the Community Presence Project, as it was called before, was discussed the first time in the beginning of 2008. The basic idea was: Make it possible that users can chat with eachother through the website they are visiting. So if me and my friend were both logged in on www.geocaching.com, we would be able to contact eachother, without using an external application.
Pretty early, we had some basic requirements:
- No end-user installation
- Full (seemless) integration with the customer website
- A flexible Instant Messaging component (pref. overlay)
- Low impact on customer data
Our developers started rapid prototyping and the first conceptual presentations were given in february 2008. The potential of this project was shown early on, when we met some large companies we had done business with before. In this perspective, we started building our first prototype.
In the mean time, we were collecting the building blocks for a good business model. Choosing a decent name caused a lot of trouble. After some months of discussion, TalkerBee was born. We set up a website, which would integrate the TalkerBee service itself pretty soon. We defined several target audiences, and the first strategy to reach would be a well-thought reseller model. We started looking for webdevelopment companies with a strong connection to highly interactive websites, and contacted them for cooperation.
At this point, we have a fully operational website and service online. We offer a free service for websites with a limited amount of simultaneous users – of course we add advertisements ourselves in this model – and bring specific solutions to large customers. The service is at this point being integrated by several webdevelopment companies in their customers’ websites. I’ll be happy to announce some in the short future.
In the meantime, we became a member of the Federation of Webdevelopment companies in Belgium (FeWeb) to be able to contact new partners more easily. Hopefully this will allow us to grow rapidly to a well-known robust service, that enables webdevelopers world-wide to bring their websites to life.
To be continued…
Welcome!
July 2, 2008
Welcome on my TalkerBee blog.
I’ll try and keep you updated as much as possible on new TalkerBee evolutions/developments/business cases.
Have fun, and feel free to comment!
