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Interview Video For sayhear.org

Posted on 6 March, 2009 at 12:18pm with 1 comment »

I have been meaning to post this video for a while, if only for the sake of posterity. Right before the election, myself and the folks at Gershoni whipped up SayHear. It was a blast to work on and we felt quite proud of the results. This whole project would not have been possible however without the technology and support of Ribbit. So when Ribbit asked me to talk about the project and how Ribbit’s technology helped make it a reality, I was more than happy to do so. Read the rest of this post…


5 Days, 500 Messages, Several Extremely Proud People

Posted on 5 November, 2008 at 12:30am with 3 comments

Not too long ago, Brendan Lee over at Ribbit got a hold of me to work with them to showcase their technology. We bounced around a bunch of different ideas, that we really liked, but it was a conversation I had with Gil Gershoni of the creative agency Gershoni where we came to the idea you see at sayhear.org. We both loved the idea of using Ribbit’s telephony technology to give a voice to the voter and create an open sounding board for people to put in their two cents on this election. What you see at sayhear.org is the culmination of real cooperative work between Gershoni, myself and Ribbit. This was not a top-down production but rather a equal collaboration between all partners. I really do believe it is that relationship which allowed us to launch the site that is up today.
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