Taodyne sponsoring the Nice Startup Week-End 2012

Tao Presentations and twitter feeds

Taodyne was the proud sponsor of the 2012 edition of the Nice Startup Week-End. It was a huge success. We had about 40 participants, a dozen projects were presented, and five teams formed and competed. The winner was iShootMyTV, a very smart way to make existing TV sets more interactive by shooting at them with a smartphone.

We used Tao Presentations to show live information about the event, including a real-time "vote of the attendees" that was remarkably in line with what the jury had decided. Anybody in the room could vote in real-time about the projects being presented using their smartphones, and Tao Presentations was showing the result in real-time on the screen.

The real-time voting worked quite well because it uses very little bandwidth. More bandwidth-hungry things like live twitter feeds were a little harder to get right, because as usual in this kind of event, the air was saturated with Wifi waves, and many browser applications were hard to use or unstable. We ended up using "regular" web browsers instead of Tao Presentations, and restarting them on a regular basis.

At the end of the show, we had a short demo of Tao Presentations on a 3D projector, with the usual "wow effect". I was very pleased to see young people who are used to all sorts of new technology be impressed by what we showed. One of them told me this was her favorite memory of the show.

We offered the winning team three free licences for Tao Presentations Impress.