If you have ever given a lecture or sat through one, you know how important audience interaction can be. After all, keeping a large group of people interested and engaged is one of the most challenging parts of any presentation. Poll Everywhere is an application that’s trying to help with that by giving presenters a way to collect feedback from their audience instantly while the presentation is still going on. Rather than asking audience members to fill out surveys or submit online questionnaires, Poll Everywhere lets them vote on any topic imaginable from their mobile phones and continually updates the poll’s results as new responses come in. Continue reading this article —>

Should you go to Harvard or Yale, play World of Warcraft or Guild Wars, move back home or live with a friend? You could think about the problem on your own, talk about it with a friend, start writing down the merits of each option, or turn to the web and let ProConLists.com help find your solution. The premise behind the site is simple—allow users to make pro/con lists debating any topic they want and utilize the collective power of the Internet to connect people who have experience dealing with similar types of situations. Continue reading this article —>

Musicians want to make music, fans want to hear it, and Brite Revolution is a subscription-based music download site that brings it all together. For the musicians, the benefit is obvious. Recording artists who team up with Brite can get noticed by a growing group of influential music aficionados and make money for the tunes that they create. Brite subscribers, meanwhile, get access to new and unreleased songs from their favorite artists, along with tour updates, band news, interviews, and music video releases that are oftentimes not available anywhere else. Continue reading this article —>

Buzzeromatic is an application that can help you manage your door buzzer and let people in and out of your building no matter where you’re at in the world. Rather than maintaining a landline telephone simply as a way to let visitors in through the apartment’s front-door system, you can stop paying a monthly phone bill and sign up with Buzzeromatic instead. In just a matter of minutes, you can start receiving messages from visitors on as many mobile devices as you choose to set up. Continue reading this article —>

Goalkeeper is an online project management system that uses tracking software and team collaboration to help users meet their goals more effectively. No matter what type of business you run, Goalkeeper allows you to map out projects, delegate tasks, share files, and keep track of the issues and bugs that could seriously throw your project off course. Continue reading this article —>

InstantLoop is an application designed for companies who want to know what their customers are thinking. In a nutshell, the online service works by asking you which questions you want answered, and then calling up your customers and finding out what they think. It then translates those answers into graphs and charts that can help you determine which course of action to take, which products to feature or discard, and which decisions to make next in order to keep your company moving forward. Continue reading this article —>