Bantam Live

There never seems to be a perfect time to publicly launch a new web application, but for us there are two reasons to launch the public beta version of Bantam Live on July 10th, 2009.

The first is that the beta version of Bantam Live is ready to be tested widely so we can get feedback on its features which will determine for us the product development plan. And of course we'll be making design tweaks and doing the inevitable bug fixes along the way. This beta version of Bantam Live is just a taste of what's to come and we're well aware of the deeper, extended features that we'll be quickly adding on based on customer feedback and requests. There's a bunch of obvious feature enhancements and new integrations we're working on right now with the social networks and we'll be adding more elementary things like email connectivity, mobile apps, advanced search, CRM customizations, analytics and other automation workflows in the future. It's a balancing act of what we know we need to develop and what our customers want and we're hopeful these interests will align during the beta period. Oh yeah, maybe we'll actually get a logo, too.

The second reason we're launching on July 10th is that we have a nice soapbox upon which to announce our launch. Actually, it's a stage... We have been selected by none other than TechCrunch to appear onstage at their "Real-Time Stream Crunchup" event held at the historic Fox Theatre in Redwood City to demo and launch Bantam Live. (Amusing: Our 5-minute presentation is followed by Salesforce's 5-minute presentation.) Being selected by TechCrunch is a capstone in our trajectory that follows Bantam Live's being selected by tech judges as a Winning Finalist at O'Reilly Media's Web 2.0 Expo last April in San Francisco, and also being named by popular vote a Winning Finalist at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston recently in June amid some other buzz. Launching at the TechCrunch Real-Time Stream Crunchup to publicly debut Bantam Live's real-time stream app for business teams follows development work that began in August of 2008.

The beta version of Bantam Live. Just a taste of what's to come.