Inaugural Post!
Our LiveKiosk.com website has been getting a little bit of an overhaul in the last few days. Adding a blog was a little bit of an afterthought, but one that we are excited about.
We've also added a "live chat" feature for anyone who might come to the site and want to get answers to some immediate questions. The added bonus of "live chat" has been the real-time displaying of city and country details of the visitors to the site, which has given us a much more tangible sense of who's coming to see what LiveKiosk is all about.
LiveKiosk.com started as a humanitarian project after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. That project still continues at www.PublicWebStations.com. As a new hurricane season approaches here in the US, we hope that it will continue to provide the opportunity for emergency shelters to quickly and painlessly deploy and maintain internet contact for both victims and aid workers. Let's hope both FEMA and the Red Cross have modified their websites to allow for the Firefox web browser!
I personally use LiveKiosk for some amount of time each day as my main computer. Given that my standard business tools are all available from a web browser (Gmail, Google Calendar, Blogger, Google Reader, SugarCRM, ZohoWriter, Google Notebook, & PBWiki), it's exciting for me to be able to be really productive professionally on vintage-1997 Dell Optiplex with no hard drive that never needs to be rebooted, or defragmented, or virus-checked, or updated--or even thought about. I realize that I live out on the extreme edges of web-based computing, but I like to think that LiveKiosk is in the path of development as people realize how inexpensive and simple computing can be when the web browser is the primary computing platform.
And since I am out on the edge, I'm also frequently the one here who brainstorms most vocally about the next additions to the program! Toshio's working on finishing up the programming for the control panel, which will allow the users to make their own changes to the main settings: changing your home page, setting a printer, switching between "walled garden" and general browsing modes, and allowing larger customers to make changes over all deployed machines. This work should be complete by the end of next month.
Thanks for visiting our site. We are looking forward to feedback and suggestions from you.
Steve
916-899-1400 direct
We've also added a "live chat" feature for anyone who might come to the site and want to get answers to some immediate questions. The added bonus of "live chat" has been the real-time displaying of city and country details of the visitors to the site, which has given us a much more tangible sense of who's coming to see what LiveKiosk is all about.
LiveKiosk.com started as a humanitarian project after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. That project still continues at www.PublicWebStations.com. As a new hurricane season approaches here in the US, we hope that it will continue to provide the opportunity for emergency shelters to quickly and painlessly deploy and maintain internet contact for both victims and aid workers. Let's hope both FEMA and the Red Cross have modified their websites to allow for the Firefox web browser!
I personally use LiveKiosk for some amount of time each day as my main computer. Given that my standard business tools are all available from a web browser (Gmail, Google Calendar, Blogger, Google Reader, SugarCRM, ZohoWriter, Google Notebook, & PBWiki), it's exciting for me to be able to be really productive professionally on vintage-1997 Dell Optiplex with no hard drive that never needs to be rebooted, or defragmented, or virus-checked, or updated--or even thought about. I realize that I live out on the extreme edges of web-based computing, but I like to think that LiveKiosk is in the path of development as people realize how inexpensive and simple computing can be when the web browser is the primary computing platform.
And since I am out on the edge, I'm also frequently the one here who brainstorms most vocally about the next additions to the program! Toshio's working on finishing up the programming for the control panel, which will allow the users to make their own changes to the main settings: changing your home page, setting a printer, switching between "walled garden" and general browsing modes, and allowing larger customers to make changes over all deployed machines. This work should be complete by the end of next month.
Thanks for visiting our site. We are looking forward to feedback and suggestions from you.
Steve
916-899-1400 direct
2 Comments:
Congrats on the launch!
Perhaps you could consider posting a screen shot of what the UI looks like.
If someone (myself) was considering your product as a public service tool, it is very frustrating to konw that the only way to see the product is to download and test drive it.
Save yourself some BW and your potential customers sometime by considering the screenshot.
Thanks.
This is a great idea. We'll take care of it and let you know. Thank you.
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